Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1840-11-07
N U NJ B E r ii.
FIFTY YEARS SINCEi

.r- ten thousand. The Iasses we're all be,ter so,
rs, pioyed; they were The true yoke fellows aiws VI
" craving equal, helping and cheering their goot
men, as they trudged along with the cares ana
4 ourthens OF lie. The mother and girls made al,
the clothes IN the family. No merchan, isilnrs md
their five hundred dollar bills in those DAYS: no
hoies laying over. In fact for he first fl ft.en
p Years lived in New York, ever heard Of pro-
tested note; hence infer thu, the pressure in,he
o money market Is owing TO the increase of play
n houses and piano tores; because the solitary lit
d lie play house. al that time, don't think would
hold over three hundred people; but now " ha, $
seven or eight play houses, and those large as
:. probably to mold three thousand each. have
heard that thirty thousand dollars n week won't
+ support the pay house. Now only think how
0 many baichers' aud bakers bills NIGH, l.. paid
with tins money. | heard OF a man living in
nse story hoase one day while at dinner. had tho
bakers bIii amounting 10 S7a50, brought up 20
nun; nc took oai his pockeI book; his wifo looks
across me table, 'Sec my dear that YOU leave
money enough TO buy the ,icke,s"--Ten dollsrs
were wanted for tho iickets--,here were t;f,e.,
IN the book so tho baker had TO call again and
the play got the ten donrs. Next noroinp ,hey
had nothing for their money but waking dreams.
.ro" now many thousand SUPPLEMENTARY door
keepers and stage sweeper., men singers nd NO.
fnen singers, lamp lighters end fddlers arc XII
ling time in these concerns! If all tho men
were telling trees and hoeing corn a nd all Tho wo
men making cloth and knitting So kinrs. there
would be no high pressure in Wall street and
The baker would not need Gull again for his bill
When Washington President his wife kn!t
stockings in Philadelphia, and the mo..~.5 made
dough nuts and cakes between Christmas md
new fear'F;--now the married ladies are TOO
proud 10 make donghnuts, besides they don't
know how, SO they cen send to Madame Pnnn,
dour, or some other French cake makers, and
buy sponge cake Cor three dollars a round la
those days New York was full of substantial com.
foris; now 1t IS full of splendid misery: and there
were no gray-headed spinsers, (unless thew
were very ugly indecd) for man could pct mar
RED Tor dollar, aud begin house keeping for
twenty. aud IN washing his clothes and cooking
ms vic'unls the wife saved more money than II
took 10 support her Now have known a min.
ister lately got five hundred dollars for bucblipp
a couple; then wine cake and other etceteras five
hundred more, wedding clothes and Jewels, a
thousand; SIX or seven hundred in driving to Tho
springs or some desert mountain; then house
'-'"-s se got feraeight 4hnndred per ann,,.n and
furnished at M expense of two three thou.a nd
and when all this is done, his pretty wife can
neiiher make cake nor put an apple in a Jum-
ping Then a cook must be got for ten dollars
per month; c!lambermai6. laundress and seam.
stress at seven dollars each, and the fashion
,hle folly of the day has banished the mistress
rom The kitchen, those blessed helps aforesaid
'eign supreme; and while the master and mis-
ress playing cards in the parour the ser-
'anis arc playing the devil ia the kitchen; thus
ightiDg the candle at both ends, il soon bQrns% -
u. Poverty comes in at ,he door and dfiveSSv
owe out at the window. |, is this stupid and cx-
y old bachelors from entering the state Of bless
dress; hence You fnd more Deaths than Mar
in the paper.
For,y-fve years ago. our real wants were few
nd easily supplied, our imaginary wants none;
'sw our real wants are Just as few, but the world
nd all It's stores cannot supply imaginary
mes. In those DAYS men got married al night,
nd went forth TO work IN the morning, with all
he sober realities of life on their back; they
ct married IN tho morning. and start off spend
ng money, rs if the wedding day would last
Trough life.
Much has been said and sung about tho i'm
row enents Of tho age, going TO ALBANY in ten
ctr, ei.- II may be SO but what the n? know
he folks happier when took three days
n going 10 NewDurgh, eight TO Albany and three
months TO Europe. Then people had limo to 1.-Two
nd enjoy life; when The wind came ahead, ~
urled our sails, or dropped anchor, when the lido
urned we foaied up; with ten or twelve passen-
'crs had no lack Of amusement. Then
ad harroioiag thoughts about home; our
si~.- ieeps the keys OF the money drawer, and
At in the e,ore e.,har kaiu.aa ar a.wino IN sea
nat The shop boy made the entries and behaved
,eli to the customers. The goods and furniture
,ere insured and we had notes TO take up
low, 10 he sure. YOU may go TO bed in New York,
nd wake up IN Albany. run round collect money,
nd be a, home in time take up your note tu;
II the time YOU are worried, for If detained
our by accident, your note must he protested
Veil you get home FIVE hundred short, you 60
rom house to house. and at 3 o'clock p. m. tho
ote is taken 1t is too late for family dinner,
nd YOU take a cup Of coffee and cold cut, piod
way to your office, over the leaves in search
{ means TO return The five hundred tomorrow,
nd get ready for another note which Is payable
saturday You are at home al p. m, sore ia
lgucd and jaded, both in body and mind. For
f,y long hours your wife has moi seen your face,
he hears your foot. she meets you a, the door
With one of her sweetest smiles. Your mind 10
Cured YOU can scarcely find kind word TO give
Ter in return, nor half hour ~ sing song to
he baby; YOU drop chair, fling your hal TO
he winds; you tired. and in thirty minutes
,our head is on a pillow, where you dream OF
,ank bills and brokers till daylight in tho t:orn-
no. These men breathe they dom; live. Before
team was got I'D mans life compared to