Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1829-11-05

| ling q day Is better tilan nothing. The We
! ~ fact Of being at work will procure em-
ploy, by aud by, at fair rate. Men avoid
him who is all tho time strolling 'about the
strects---he is Judged unfit for any thing,
and may die for want Of employ.
II Won can find nothing alse TO do, read
and improve your mind, and fit yourself
for better doing what you have to do. In
s,ruct your children-sce that they have
good schools: go to school with them oc-
casionally, and take glance at the method
in which 1t is conducted. Do you think
they will respect you, or be worth having,
ir YOU neglect them in their youth, when
the mind first takes its bent and incl'na-
tions1 No man who has family ever
should say that he has nothing to do.
Job about your house, or in your garden.
Tf you have no garden, hire piece Of
ground and make one till i, as well as
you can at any rate there raise your fam
lily vegetables. The poor man as we'll as
the rich, feels the benefit Of a garden. If
he can't get work every day abroad, he
may have it there. Besides you may of
ten find an hour or half hour, during regu-
lar employ, when you can labor III il prof
itably; and you may, in such case, rise an
hour earlier in the morning, and hoe your
garden, and thus almost subsist your fami-
ly, instead Of taking part ofyour days wa
geS for marketing. The market is cam
ker that will, by degrees, eat you out,
while you are eating upon it.
A good garden, with little sailed pro-
visions, will support your household a
whole summer; you need little or no
fresh meat during that season-better
without it. Buy few bushels of wheat,
and get il ground at the custom mills
much cheaper than to purchase flour by
the barrel, and more wholesome by not
being run too fine and there is a great saw
ing. You may have COW grazing upon
tho common in the proper season, and hay
costs but triAe-see to all this.
Doctor Franklin once lived we'll upon
about fifty dollars year, including all ex-
penses. One may, in this country, carry
himself through with less money. If yor
have a roof little OUT your wood will cos
: nothing but the trouble Of picking it up
: and the thanks Of the owner for taking
Q away. Many laborer has, from the bal
unce Of his earnings, above the support q
: la large family, become the proprietor Of
decent house and piece Of land, in tn
@ course of FIVE years, Snd been all the tin
free from debt.
" Stroll not about begging patronag
What is patronage2
C Nothing, after your ability is know
" Then, if you are fit for employ. you vi
!. have tiff not, better man should. VI
;. must stand competition that is the life
Q business get work by superior skill, pune
= tuality and attention. Men know the
a own interest, and will follow it in spite
r friendship. Give me the skill, and 20
may have all the patrons. They'll site
r to you as long as you servo them best-n
/ longer. If too many are in the bushes!
, let the balance clear out; and they vii
+ soon do so, If the public do not falsel
cherish them with fair words Of patronage
which mean nothing-but "every man 70
himself"
Rccollect, the main point is employ, an,
not fair words. One man giving a job i
worth forty promising it. Promises are thu
ruin Of many, and usually impart nothin,
but vitality to hope. Many man prom
ises from mere good nature, and will wan.
tonly promise the same thing to a hundred
in a day-and disappoint ninety-nine.
say, once more, emphatically, trust mol
to promises, until men become little more
honest; and thus by doubling their veraci-
~, put them upon their good behavior.
And doubt every man who does not strict
" comply with all his engagements. II
he have disappointed others. may he not
disappoint you? What reason have you TO
think otherwise In fine, never think you
have money at command until it be actual
" in your hand and therefore take care
how YOU promise it. Neglect of such pru-
dentials binders men from becoming rich,
and produces HARD TlMCS'
SIccpins IN Chwch.-The Rev. Row.
land Hill, while preaching saw many OF
his congregation asleep, which occasioned
him to say, al am sorry TO see so many OF
my congregation asleep, and among the
rest Mrs. Hill; ;" but for this public adj
mvnition 10 his better half, he got Sc
we're reprimand, and promised not to wake
her up again in public. Shortly after IN
good lady was again asleep and noddlng IN
church and a person near her, snoring
so loud as 10 disturb the congregation: tins
Mr.. Hill could not long endure. and nc
called out don't you snore SO LOUD 'nere'
or YOU will wake up Mrs. Hill"
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