Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-06-01
SELECT TALE.
A PENNY SAVEDIs PENNY GAINED.
PRACTICL ILLUSTRATION.
By T. s. ACTHER.


What can with wife and three children
save out of eight dollars a week.
Not much, certainly was replied. But still
if he is careful he may little.
Precious little briefly returned the other
with something like contempt iii his tone.
Even a little is worth saving was answered
to this You know the old provcrb, Many
Titles make mickIe. Fifty cents laid by every
week viii amount to twenty-six dollars a year,
OF course that's clear enough. And dollar
saved every week Will give the handsome sum
Of fifty dollars year. Bat how is the half dol
lar or dollar to be saved, should like to know.
| cannot do it am sure.
Il can, then, and my family is just as large as
yours, and my wages higher
III you say so, bound to believe you, but
must own myself unable TO see how you 90 it.
Pray, how much do you savo7'
Il have saved about seventy five dollars year
for the last two years
'You have.' in surprise.
Yes, and | have it all snugly in the Savings
bank
Bless me! how have YOU possibly managed to
do this? For my part, it is as much as | can GO
TO keep ont of debt. My wife is as hard work
ing saving woman as is to be found any where.
But all won't DO. expect that my nose will be
at the grindstone all the days of my life
How much does your tobacco cost you, john
SON. asked the companion
Nothing to speak of; mere trile,' replied
the named Johnson.
y shilling a week
About that
And, on take something to drink now and
then
Noting bat a little beer. never use any
thing stronger
Il suppose you never take on an average, more
than glass day
No. not that
But you occasionally ask friend to take
glass with YOU
of course, that is a thing all must do some
times
(Which make the cost to you about to glass
a day
Il suppose it will; but that is nothing.
six glasses week at sxpence each, will make
just the sum of three shilling which added to the
cost of tabacco will make fifty cents week for
beer and tobacco. or what would amount to a
hundred dollars and over, in four years
Dear knows, poor mechanic has few enough
comforts without deprvng himself of tritles like
these SAID Johnson.
BY giving up such trifIcs these, for trifies
they really are, permanent and substantial COM
forts may be gained. But besides tobacco ana
beer, you Indulge yourself in plate of
oysters, now then, do YOU uot'
Certainly, do. A hard working man ought
to be allowed to enjoy himself little some
times
.AnI this costs you two shilling weekly said
the preserving friend.
AT least that was replied.
GLOW often DO YOU take days holiday
Not often. DO it very rarely
.Not oftcner than once Il month
NO
As often7'
YES l suppose take a day for recreation
about once Il month, and that is little enough dear
knows
You spend little triic al such of course.
Never more Than half dollar. | always
INIT myself to that, for cannot forget that |
I'M poor Journeyman mechanic
Does your wife take a holiday too7' ask ed the
.ienI with some thing significant in his looks and
one.
No., replied. Il often try to persuade her
o do so, but she never thinks she can spare time
he has all the work to after and the chil,iren
ne of them You know is baby
DO YOU know that this holiday once a month
osts you exactly twenty two dollars year.
No. certainly not, for it costs no such thing
We'll, let see. Your wages per day come to
ne dollar thir:v-thrce and one third cents This
um multiplied to twelve, the number of DAYS
,st in year, gives sixteen-doliars. Half dol
lr spent day for twelve days makes six dollars
nd six dollars added 10 sixteen amount to twenty
NO. Now have not calculated fairly
Il believe you have, replied Johnson in al
red tone. But never could have believed it
Add to this thirteen dollars year that You
av for oysters. and YOU have--'
y OF so fast, if YOU please. spend no such
I'M as YOU name in oysters
lie, US try our multiplication again, coolly
marked the friend. Twenty five cents week
multiplied into fifty two weeks, gives exactly
iirteen dollars. Isn't it So
.Humph. believe you right. But never
oulJ have thought it,.
add 10 this thirteen dollars the twenty two it h
osts you for twelve holidays in the year. and h
lis again to the price of your tobacco and beer +
nd YOU will have just sixty dollars year
lat might be saved A little more careful
ANIMATION into your expenses would no doubt y
etect the sum of fourteen dollars that might be =
well saved ami which added to the sixty-one | !
Ill make seyentv-tive dollars 4 year uselessly !