Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-12-01

go: Ol course, hav'nt spent sixteen dol
lars and over in three davs.'
Certainly not. But where can it have
gone Hare YOU counted rightr
oh, yes And Mr.. Hall went over
the money again to see if there was no
mistake.
It's too true. have but twenty three
dollars and a half
Are you sure you hav'nt spent il for
something" suggested Mrs. Hall How
else could have gone
Some one must have given me wrong
change. | gave the carriage driver five
dollar bill. Let me sec. What change
did he give me! 1t was note, and took
it for three dollars
Mr.. Hall ran over the money in his pock-
ct book.
Yes, here's a three dollar bill. He
gave me the right change"
Mr.. Halls mind was in great perplexitv.
His income was small enough compared to
his expenses, and, therefore. % lose eight
or ten dollars, he felt, just then, TO be no
trihjng matter.
Suppose you count what YOU have
spent suggested Mrs. Hall, and see how
much 1t is, exactly. Perhaps YOU have
laid out more than you think for
I've not laid out half of sixteen dollars.
But we will count up.
In the first place the spendings Of mar
ketlugs, shoes and the sundries that went
into the family were recalled with some
effort, and the sum OF six dollars finally
made out.
That's only six dollars, YOU sec,' re-
piled Mr. Hall, leaving deficiency Of ten
dollars and half
But you forget the carriage hire
True, that was two iolIars-making
eight dollars.
And YOU know YOU bought milk and
cakes for the children, and paid the toll
keeper
50 did. Let me see how much l paid
exactly. Just fifty cents to 4 fraction.
Then YOU have eight dollars and fifty
cents accounted for, which leaves eight
dollars deficient Think now, what you
spent for yourself, Yesterday and the day
before.
Not eight dollars, nor eighty cents
But let me see. There is my luncheon
every day, for three days-justt hirty sew
en- and a half cents. True, and there is the
bottle of wine; FL forgoiten-scventy five
cents. Yes, and now | remember | paid
half dollar for the toys | bought for the
children
80 much
Yes. had TO buy for all of them, and
even cheap toys, when you have to get so
many OF them, count up. But we must
indulge the children sometimes. | have
spent also for cigars and tobacco, the tribe
OF thirty one cents and for paper folder
a quarter. An in cakes and candies for the
children. | may have spent, may be. a
shilling. Let me sec how much all these
amountto.'
The items were summed up and the
product was two dollars nearly a half
Thai. YOU see, reduces it 10 five dollars
and a haiti, remarked Mrs. Hall.
So it does remrked the husband
How money does slip through ones tn
gers would not have believed it. But
where are the five dollars and half! Even
that Is too much to lose. Letme see
Mr.. Hall thought Sor moment and
then his thumb and ringer gave sharp
crack, and he exclaimed
Yes. That's it. paid my BARRIERS
and NY boot blacks bills which added to-
ge,her Just make i've dollars and half
Wei. | declare. 1t is astonishing -
Would any one have thought it! How
money does 90. | wish | could never see
a dollar. Money meIts out OF my pockets
like snow before the fire. wish in my
heart YOU would take it and see if YOU can
make it 20 any farther than do
Mrs. Hall did not reply for some mo-
ments. and then said,
/ will do SO provided YOU will let me
manage things in my own way for year ;
and also provided that YOU will be content
with five dollars quarter for your tobacco
and cigars also provided that YOU viii!
shave Yourself aud black your own boots,
or lie; me do it for YOU; and also take your
luncheon at home instead of buying it; BY
All Of which about sixty dollars year can
be saved
Sixty dollars. /, don't COS, half that
sum, Harriet
Count it up for yourself, Felix. Why
a shilling day for lunch amounts to thirty
seven dollars a year
so it does. How little things count up.
Well, wife. if youIltake hold in good earn
est, Ill DO just as YOU say for one year, and
il YOU bring down the cost of living as
much as a hundred dollars. will let YOU
manage money matters ever after
II | don't bring it down three hundred
dollars. am mistaken replied Mrs. Hal
in confident tone for 4 light had suddenly
broken mo her mind. The account which
her husband had given of three days dis
pensat.on OF money. under his system
showed her where the leak was.
Here are twenty dollars TO begin with
all that | have left from my last quarters
salary, after Keeping three dollars and 4
half Ter my tobacco and cigars during the
next three months {; when it IS gone, will
borrow as mach as YOU want 10 carry YOU
on until | can draw more money!
At the rate Hall was going on, it would
have taken little over 4 week 10 have en-.
treIy emplied his pocket book; but it was
: month before his wife asked for fresh
supply.
Que Of Mrs. Halls first acts was to buy
Backing and brushes, and discharge the
sect black. For a week she brushed her