Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-09-28
From the National Advocate.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

do thc y-udy Oh NY DioOm is Ger,
and the linch-pin escaping when had
reached Cato's, alishted to get new
one, which the civil African soon pro-
cured for me. While reposed In his
piazza, | noticed the many gigs, suikies.
lcurricles, and horses, which dashed in al
the gate enveloped BIZ lIst, and all under
the control OF youngatnen, apparently Of
fashion and fortune, fall OF life aud ami
nation, careless of tie future, careful
only Of the present. The house shortly
jechoed with the cries Fi.-- WHITEWATER
land in a few minutes each person had
bis glass Of brandy and water or punch in
hand, and lighted segar 10 mouth; aud
while sat contemplating the scene, they
lpsssed me in review, probably to have
stare at the old fellow gho had intruded
ia their bacchanalian rendezvous. found,
however, that these dashing blades were
mot young men of fortune or family, but
were principally clerks, altoruies' ap.
|prentices, and a few idle young men,
whose inlprudent parents had afforded
them the means to progress thus in ruin.
They were loud and indecent--stalked
Iup aud down the piazza, cracked their
whips, tapped their boots with their rat
tans, talked Of coach full of girls, long
ed for winter, for sleighing, mulled wine,
and all that, and then adjourned to play
nine pins and shuttle board. | reflected
on the scene before me with deep regret.
This, by some untbinking persons, would
be called pleasure-what an abuse of
terms--how little is that word understood
how seldom is it enjoyed. Many of
those young men were originally from the
country, well recommended for industry
and economy on their arrival they OBJ.
tanned places at moderate salaries, and as
they were found useful they we're pro-
fmoted and their salaries increased. In-
stead Of continuing the same course, and
preserving The same habits, their advance
ment was the signal for a change in their
mode of living; they threw off their plain
dress, and were fashioaably caparisoned
by an extravagant tailor; their leisure
moments they employed il walking Broad
way, in standing at the City Hotel OF
Washington Hall, TO stare modesty out
of countenance. The afieruoon's en-
lployment, is a jaunt to Cato's. Those
who cannot afford 10 keep gig, hire one,
which they can as little afford to do; their
day is thus concluded, in drinking and
noisy revels, and as evening draws on
apsce, and frowns upon their setting gIo-
ry, they seize their whips, and with dig
Ivy heads and coloured faces, dash into
town, breaking down, running over, crash
ing aud smashing every thing 10 their
way ;-and if they alight in safety at their
livery stables, they must spend the night
in the same jocund way, and at some ho-
tel, swallow glass after glass or at some
ldiscreditabe house, create riot, confusion,
and disorder; with heads inebriated, per-
sons debiIitated, constitutions weakened
and undermined, they reel home after
midnight, find doors open through the
weak indulgence Of the proprietors, throw
themselves on beds, probably undressed,
and 10 restless, ieverish, perturbed
state, pass the night; and morning dawns
upon them with aching bones, unrefreshed
persons and tainted minds-they recon-
mence the labours Of the day and termi-
nate the revels Of the night in the same
manner. &c Tomorrow, and tomorrow,
and tomorrow, crasuls NTH a petty pace,
and euery yesterday lights fools to dusky
graves" We see the end Of these things
daily young men cut off from society,
fall early victims to intemperance and inn
prudent qualifications; if their money is
spent, they live on borrowiDg-then on
hope-and, finally, despair plunges them
into the last desperate abyss ;--they be-
gin, as they think, like gentlemen, get
drunk, as they say, like gentlemen, as if
any man can be a gentleman who gets
drunk at all. If their money lasts, it
kills them-and if it is all spent, and their
bad habits are confirmed, they quit, with
reluctance, their madeira, champagne
and coguiac, to drink whiskey and COM
mon rum, and then become outcasts and
candidates for bridewell and the poor
house; and all this evil has its origin in
the pursuit Of pleasure' Abused, misap-
Piled, mistaken word. Pleasure consists
10 doing what is substantially right, and
avoiding what is evidently wrong.
How should young man employ his
time, who depends upon Industry and
economy for support ? Let him rise early
lin the morniog--for with sober men that
period is always auspicious--the head is
clear, the mind iavigorated, and the sys-
tenn is braced; if the duties OF the store
and contingencies do not absorb his at
4 tention, let him take lesson in French
Tor Spanish, or any useful foreign lam
guage; for languages are species OF cap
ital to man in business--to bis special
duties let him closely attend; let him cal