Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-10-12
DU BUQUE VISITOR.
Though now 80 cheap. the thing fear.
" i'll prove abomin abe dear.

Though new 90 cheap. the thing fear,
Mill prove abominab;e dear.
There is wonderful magic in the
word cheap. The news that mer-
chant has got some articles very low,
sets whole neighborhood agog. No
matter whether the thing is wanted or
nots it must he bought. And thu worth
of many good plantation is 81 lander
cd in the purchase of things useless as
the fifth wheel TO coach, merely be-
cause they are cheap.
Ny aunt Eunice, whose wisdom is Of
the hest kind, for it is the wisdom Of
experience, used often to warn us of the
folly Of buying things because they
are cheap. In her younger days it was
her province to tend the dairy, and
every fifth cheese were her own per-
quisit.. She had < hundred weight,
and to market she went with her
cheese, intending with the avails toslay
in some little necessary articles against
an emergency.
New York, from Applebury, lies S.
S. w. two days journey, when the
roads are good. Aunt Eunice had
never been 10 the city before, but had
often heard Of the amazing cheapness
Of things there. Her cheese yielded
her, in good silver money, two pounds
ten shi!lings to farthing Who 50
happy as she? Methinks ! see her
now, tripping along Broadway-her
cheeks ruddier than pearmain--her
hair dressed in the fashion of those
days. with high commode, q little on
one side, looking so jaunty. Then her
stays were laced unusually tight. show
ing waist slender as the cream churn;
her stockings were Of her own knitting.
add whittier than the lilly; and her high
heeled shoes give her an air of light
ness and majesty. As memory rolls
back the wheels Of time, and opens to
my ken the scenes of youth, other OBJ
jec.s, in mingled light and shade, rise
to nv view see, all glowing with
health anil beauty, the smile Of one
whose smile was life and love. The
song that cheered nv borhood rever-
berates on memory's car. But the
f,r II Of beauty is lost in darkness, and
hervoice is hushed in the tomb. There,
too, beloved Aunt, and thou, old Ro-
bert, must ere long 'ningle your dust
with hers: and your hearts, that still
beat 50 cheerily, become still and cold
as the cIods of the valley. Ye who
have loved So But
whittier do I wonder.
From shop to shop my Aunt roven.
A new t',inble-,rig,t as silver--cost
but sixpence, and she boughtit. Fans,
ribbons, laces. trinkcts, and gewgaws,
which her judgment did not approve,
she still, purchased, because they came
40 very low. She WIS not aware how
fast her money wasted. When little
tired Of running. and satiated with
novelties, she returned to her lodg.
ings, and at down to count her cash
How great was her disappointment to
find more than three fourths Of squan.
dered. on things Of no value! Poor cir!
she could not purchase half the arti.
elias she had deemed Indispensable!
She would sometimes tell the story
herself, but did not like to be told o.
/ it. But being half in love, and having
Of course an itch for scribbling poetry
she wrote an essay on the subject, from
which my motto is extracted.
! When l see men leaving their bust.
ness and crowding too vENDuE, wheu
there is not single articleto be sold
they really want; but wasting theil
time, drinking and bidding, because
things 60 cheap.
When I see young woman chang
ing her tow cloth for parasoi instead
Of . petticoat, or a six dollar bonnet.
instead of bedtick, l would gives
pinch Of my best Rapee if some kind
friend would whisper her
Though now 50 cheap. the thing, fsar,
Will, in the end. prove monstrous dear.
But Of all cheaU things that in the
end prove dear, razors and school mrs.
ters are the most abominable. One
will mangle your flesh, the other will
mang!e the e.lucatio, and morals Of
your children. In too many neigh
borhoods, the price, and not the quail
flea ions, Of masters looked at.
For the difference 81 three dollars .
month; man Of sense and learning
will be displaced to make way for a
BOBBY.
Listen to old Robert The future
usefulness and DESTINY of your chill