The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-06-06


frankly told the many unavaiing efforts
that had been made To economize.
1T was impossible, we found he add
ed despondiugIy. We could not save
the money and keep up appearances
Keep up appearances Humbug
humbug! My dear nephew you have
been wrong all through the business
Let me ask you if YOU ever received "a
service from any Of these many friends,
to secure whose good word YOU put your.
self 20 all these shifts, denied so many
sold comforts, and yc. spent SO much
money !!
Merlvale was forced TO confess he had
not; moreover they had all been shy Of
him since his difficulties.
Did it do Your daughters any good TO
go to Mrs. Pooe's expensive school ?
Except that all The fashionables sent
their children there
'Ay and I'll venture to say none of
these fashionables have invited your
daughters to their chldren's parties since
your difficulties
Merivale was forced to confess they
had not.
Are your daughters able TO assist in
the house! 2
Oh! no---they never had time TO
learn,-When they were not in school,
they were taking music lessons Il, home
or doing fancy work
llumph. And what use will either be
10 them But how much could YOU have
saved by cutting of these unnecessary ac.
compllshments, to say nothing of The wa
ges oi at least one servant that you could
then have retrenched.'
Mervale mentioned the sum,
And suppose. when you began life,
that you had moved into a house of two.
thirds the rent Of the present one, how
much would that have saved annually,
not only directly in the rent, but Indirect
~ in other expenses ?
Mcrivale again told the amount.
Now, look here. will calculate all
these little matters together. We will
add their interest, moreover, every year.
Thcre-you have been married twelve
years, and if you had begun life as you
ought 10, you would have been worth
twenty thousand dollars, instead of being
a bcggar. And further, the interest Of the
sum, added TO your practice, would have
supported you handsomely in the style in
which you now live
Marivale looked aghas, He had never
seen so keen 4 calculation; but there il
was, in black and white.
Now, my dear nephew, You sec yon
have begun wrong, and so lloundercd
from bad to worse. ! he moment heard
you had moved into Mat big house, saw
how all would end; for | knew your
means, and felt assured that, sooner or la
later, you must come to me. You have
held out Iongc, than thought YOU could.
Now, take my advice. | will pay your
debts. Move into a smaller house.
have one in - street, just the thing.
You shall have it, rent free, and then
your income will more than support you,
especially if you abandon Mrs. Poole's
fashionable academy, and bring your
daughters up like sensible girls, intended
for citizens. Iet-mind-I don't object
to accomplishments in the abstract, any
more than | object to living in fine houses
only those who can afford neither ought
not TO aspire TO them. Believe me, three.
lourths of the difficulties Of getting along,
come from being proud as well as poor
MerivaIe took his uncle's advice, and
rgidy adhered TO it, Notwithstanding his
wife, at first, prompted by her mother,
was continually suggesting new expenses
in order TO be respectable.
The consequence was that he lost none
Of his practice, gained the respect Of all
honest men, and is now rapidly gaining a
competence. lie often says there are
more families than one imagines, who
suffer daily priva'ions because they are
POOR AND PROUD.
Inn