Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-08-29


other day for her keeping room for 65
dollars, and glass for 60 doIlars--sucb /
are good enough for me, though should
have them of different figure.
Mr.. C. You are very moderate in
your demands. Let as secs and co.
that's l25. Why, that would take 3
yoke Of first rate oxen, OF four good cows.
These are north something but what /
profit would the carpet aud glass produce
The interest 90 the money would amount I
| in ten years to IS dollars--and If they |
are not really necessary, would IT not be
better TO content ourselves awhile with |
the carpets and glasses we DOW have,
rather than iDvolye ourselves ia debt
| the times are prrssiHg-uouey scarce
and difficult TO be obtained-besides that, |
our circumstances are not affluent-our
family is numerous and some what expeD-
sive. | have no funds 10 resort to, but
the farm aud my labour on 1.-THE seasons
are precarious and the crops uncertain.
/ A loss III our stock, or sickness in the
family would soon be seriously felt by US.
We could not -
MISS Clara C.. I never! Father is al
ways telling about profits and loss, aud
bad crops, and Sickness, and such things.
I'm sure Pm not extrayagant. Think of
Rosa Tiiier--she's about my age-her
father bought shawl for her last week
that cost twelve dollars, and never yet
have had one that cost over ten.
Mr.. C. Ny child, If you will contrive
any way by honest employment to earn
ten dollars in twenty weeks, will add TO
il ten dollars more, and you may expend
the whole in buying what you please.
Miss Clara. earn Ten dollars! want
10 know if you wish me to go out 10
work at spinning or house work ? Aud as
to carding, spinning. knitting or weavins
at home. you know very well that it is
much cheaper 10 have them all done
seroad by carding machines, and patent
looms, and such kind of ihinss.-As TO
teaching az A, B, C school. its great
confinement for one, and rather too vulgar
an employment for young ladies that are
any thing.
| Miss Renda. shan't go TO spinning, !
guess, very soou. l should look well
indeed at an old spinning wheel and com
pany coming in 1.-THE dirty tow and lax
all over my face and cloth $! Besides
that, il is great deal cheaper 10 buy
cloth out and out, as Clara says, than TO
| make it at home.
Mr.. C. This is very different language
from that which farmers daughters used
forty years ago-your grand mothers and
their daughters we're farmers wives and
farmers daughters. They were consid-
cred respectable in society--they were
industrious, prudent aid economical
they thought it an honor to them TO be good
spinners acd weavers and good dairy
women--they took an honest pride in
showing their bundles of yarn, their cloth
and their cheeses-they we're contented
and happy without Turkey carpets and
gilt lookins-glasses. Unembarrassed in
their circumstances, they were strangers
to mortgages, attachments and executions
the collector called but once for his tax
their clothes and furniture we're sub
slaatial, neat aud clean, and principally
| Of their own domestic manufacture.
/ Mrs. C. Yes, yes, husband but don't
you know that those plain, old fashioned,
homespun goodies knew nothing about the
taste aud present style Uf living
/ Mr.. C. Yes, do; aud happy for us
would il have been if me had never knew
4 i, in our day. II cannot be supported
Il Money does moi grow on trees: and |
] verify believe, if the philosophers stone,
i which turns every thing into gold, could
be found in every field, it would serve
rather to increase the vices, follies aud
|. miseries OF mankind.
Il Miss Renda. declare, I would run
the venture of that, If could fiud one of
! them. / should have gold watch and a
good parcel of beads, rings and jewels
pretty quick, warrant ye.
i Mrs. C.. Come, Renda, don't talk such
nonsense. You know that that stone don't
grow about here; but if it did, your father
4 wonld be unwilling to let you have such
things--he could not afordit. Say, hus-
baud, have you any objection to buyin
The carpet and ioOkiug-giass You know
we cau't do without them We really
Il want them to be decent.
4 Mr.. C. We have great many snsagi-
nary wants. If you can point out any
way TO raise money to pay for them
i Mrs. C. Aye. there it comes again. /
point out the way How does Mr. Tilter
i find ways and means to buy all the nice
things he gets for his family ? | should be
ashamed You are worth as much as he
is, and your credit is as good as his any
day 10 the year. True, he made a little
money, they say, by speculation and traf
ticking about, and he gets money out Of