The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-08-12
From The Massachusetts Journal.

MORE HINTS TO PEOPLE OF MODERATE
FORTUNE. Early teach children to take
the whole care of their own clothes. Talk
ing will do no good, so long as their own
carelessness is supplied by another's atten-
ton. Make them depend on themselves
In all probability there will be times when
care and anxiety must come upon them ;
| at all events it is wise to prepare them for
such contingencies. In this country we are
too apt to let children romp and idle away
all the time they are out of school, till they
are fourteen or fifteen and then how soon
the pitiful rivalry of fashion and vanity be-
| gins
| The fact is, children can be so educated
as TO take pleasure in their duty they
can find enjoyment in usefulness ; and is it
not well they should find their happiness in
sources over which time and circumstances
! have no power?
begin early" is the great maxim for
every thing in education. A child of six
years old can be made useful and they
should be taught to consider each day lost,
in which they have failed to do some little
| thing for the benefit of others. The ca
ger inquiries they make whether they have
done any good, and the innocent and gles-
ful pride they evince when they receive as
surance that they have, is sufficient proof
that habits of usefulness are not naturally
felt as bondage.
1t is wise to keep an exact account of all
you expend; even to paper of pins. This
answers two purposes. 1t makes you more
| careful in spending money and it enables
your husband to Judge precisely whether
his family live within his income. No false
pride, or foolish ambition to appear as well
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| live one cent beyond his income of which
| he is certain. If you have two dollars a
day, let nothing but sickness induce you to
spend more than nine shillings. If you
have one dollar, do not spend more than
a dollar day, be satisfied to spend forty
cents.
To associate with influential and genteel
people, with an appearance of equality,
unquestionaby has its advantages particu-
larly where there is a family of sons and
daughters coming upon the theatre of life !;
but, like all other external advantages, it
has It's proper price, and may be bought too
! dearly. They who never reserve a cent
of their income, with which to meet any I'M
foreseen calamity, "pay too dear for their
| WHISTLE" whatever temporary advantages
| they may derive from society.
Selfdeniai In proportlontotn the narTowness
| of your income, will eventually be the happi-
est and most respectable course for you and
yours. Ifyou are prosperous, perseverance,
! industry and good character will not fail to
| place you in such a situation as your am
! bition covets; and if you are not prosper
Gus, it will be well for your children that
! they have not been educated to niger hopes
| than they will ever realize.
! A POINTED REBUKE. A certain witty
| old lady, in market town not twenty miles
| from this city, was in the constant habit of
| frequenting Diapers shop, where she was
strongly suspected of popping any little
article that lay on the counter into her ret
icule, in order, no doubt to save the shop
keeper the trouble of putting it into his bill.
1 But this light-fngered fair being roputably
! connected, and that too with some good
customers at the shop, 1t was deemed pru-
dent rather to keep a strict watch upon her
| than openly to expose her failing, though
J of her guilt there could be no doubt One
I day when she wanted some trifling article,
the principal Of the shop attended her him
| self, and observed her secrete a small hank
/ of common gray thread, worth half
penny. When she had finished her pur-
chase, and was about to depart, the shop
man politely begged her attention for one
moment, and presenting her with needle,
he said, beg Ma'am your acceptance of
this it will Just suit the hank Of thread in
your reticule." The old lady looked very
grave, and taking the needle, said, "Sir, I
viii not be offended, although your reaec
I ton is both sharp and pointed" And so
saying she departed, taking with her both
J the needle and the thread.
York Eng. Herald.
A French paper states, that numerous
plants afford true and convenient hints con-
corning the weather, which may be agreea
BILE to some to be informed Of Chickweed
is said always to close is blossoms some
time before rain; so that when they are
observed open, one may calculate on dry
weather for at least several hours. AS lon0
as they continue to unfold and display them
selves, the whole day may be depended
upon Ii on the contrary the flowers with
draw themselves into their green envelope.
the pedestrian need wish no better hint TO
take his umbrella on his walk. All kinds of
clover, we are further informed, close up
their leaves at the approach of storm, and
this is SO marked characteristic ofthat fam
lily ofplants, that they are often denomnated
the farmers barometer" The same prac-
hce is observed in tulips, and the greater
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