Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-02-11

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icllows-always drawing equal, helping and
cheering their good men as they trudge along
Win The cares and hurihens ofillc. The moth
or and girls made all the clothes in the faml-
~. No merchant tailors and their five hun
dred dollar bills IN those days no notes lying
over. In fact for the las, fifteen years lived
~ New York, never heard OF a protested
note hence infer, that the pressure in the
money market is all owing 10 the increase Of
lighthouses and pano-lorcs because the sol
ltary little playhouse, AT that time don't
think would hold over three hundred people
ni low 8ssAeffe sven. orss ALI il1s 9sss,
and those SO large as probably to bold three
thousand each. ! have heard that thirty thou
sand dollars week won't support the play
houses Now, only to think how many butch
ers' and bakers bills might be paid with this
| money | heard Of a man living in five sto-
| ry house, who one dav, while al dinner. had
the bakers bill, amounting to 81 80, brought
up TO him lac took out his pocket book, his
wife looks across the table-"See my dear,
that you leave money enough to pay for the
| tickets :" ten dollars were wanted for the tick
ets-there were but fifteen in the book 80 the
baker had to call again, and tho play got the
/ ten dollars. Next morning they had for their
/ money but waking dreams Now how many
| supernumary doorkeepers and stage-sweepers
men-singcrS, and women-sngers, lamp-ght-
/ ers and iidders, are killing time in these con-
/ Germs II all the men were hoeing corn, and
/ all the women making cloth and kntlin J
stockings, there would be no high pressure in
! Wall street, and the baker would not need TO
call again for his bill.
When Washington was President. his wife
knit stockings in Philadelphia, and the moth
| crs and daughters in New York made all the
| dough-nuts and cakes between Christmas and
81. L.
proud to make dough-nuts besides, they don't
know how so they cen send to Madame Pom
padour, or some other French cake maker,
and buy sponge-cake or dy-fngers for three
dollars pound. In those days New York
was full Of substantial comforts; now it is full
/ of splendid misery then there were no gray
headed splnsters, (unless they were very ugly
indeed) for man could get married for a dol
lar, and begin housekeeping for twenty; and
in washing his clothes and cooking his Wet
uals, the wife saved him more money than it
took to support her. Now | have known a
minister lately 10 get five hundred dollars
for buckling a couple then wine, cake, and
other ct ceteras, five hundred more wedding
clothes and Jewels thousand six or seven
hundred indrvnf, - liz s'r''-'-se, come dee
art mountain; then house must be got Tor
eight hundred per annum, and furnished at an
expense of two or three thousand and when
all is done, his pretty wife can neither make
a cake or put an apple in a dumping. Then
a cook must be got at ten dollars per month
chambermaid, laundress, and seamsress, al
seven dollars each and as the fashionable
folly of the day has banished the mistress from
the kitchen, those blessed helps aforesaid
reign supreme and while master and mistress
are playing cards in the parlor the servants
are playing the devil in the kitchen; thus
lighting the candle at both ends, it soon burns
out Poverty comes in at the door and drives
Love out at the window. It is this stupid and
expensive nonsense which deters so many I'M
happy bachelors from entering the state OF
blessedness hence you find more deaths thar
marriages in the papers.
Forty-tive years ago. our real wants were
few, and easily supplied ourimaginary wants
none now our real wants are just as few, bu
the world and all its stores cannot supply ON
imaginary ones. In those days, men got mar
RED at night, and went forth TO work in tho
morning. with all the sober realities Of life on
their backs now they get married in the NOR
ming, and start off spending money as II wed
p, ding day would last through life.
Much has been said and sung about the i'm
proyements of the age, going to Albany IN te
/, hours, and England in twelve days, etc. b.
what then | know the folks were happe
q when we took three days to 90 to Newburgl
: eight to Albany, and twelve weeks to Europe
! Then the people mad time 10 live aud emo
! life when the wind came ahead, we furlc
l. our sails. or dropped anchor; when the It'd
t. turned we hoated up; with ten or twelve pa,
o sengers we had no lack Of amusement. The
/ we had no harrlwiRg Houghts about home
g Our wives kept the keys Of the money draw
Il or. and set ia the store knitting or sewing,
d see that the shop-boy made the entries and VI
e havod well TO the customers. Tue goods az
u furniture were insured, AMI we had no notC
J, To take up. Now, 10 be sure you may 90
l. bed in New York and wake up IN Albany ~
n round. collect money, and be home in time
l. take mo your note but all the time you al
IS ,vorr,ed for. if detained an hour by acciden
s. your note may be protested. Wei, you 2
A. home. five hundred short, YOU GO from hou'
ID 10 house. and at three, P, NJ. the note Is take
IN mn. II is too late for the family dinner; 90
re take a cup Of coffee and a cold cut, piod ava
N to your Office. turn over the leaves 10 scare
y Of means 10 return the five hundred io-mouo'
* and get ready for another note, which Us pay
li BE on Saturday You are m home al seFe
r, p. NJ, Sore faded, ana fatgued, both - Boo
g and mind For htty long hours your wife b
10 not seen your iace-she hears your loot 81
ee meets Won at tie door with one OF her sWeeit
IS smiles Your mind is s0ured you can scare
sc IN find a word 20 give her IN return, nor h
lg an hour 10 sing a song 90 the baby you Or
pr an a chair. fling your hat 20 thc wlnts, ana
nj thirty minutes your head IS on pillow, whe
- va, dream Of bank bills and brokers iill 90
u- iisbt in the morning These men breath
IS ,5ry don't live. Before steam was got &
,rs mans life was compared 10 a journey d.
as ,,'s most egnuhatically a race, and most lnha
Ks nv Is he who IS foremost