Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-08-05
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and even cheap toys. when you have to
get so many of them, count up. But we
must indulge the children, sometimes
L have spent, also, for cigars and tobacco,
the trife of thirty-one cents; and for a
paper folder a quarter. And in cakes
and candies for the children, may have
spent, may be shilling. Let me see how
much all these amount to-"
The items were soon summed up, and
the product was two dollars and nearly a
half
"That you see reduces it to five dollars
and half, said Mrs. Hail.
$50 it does," remarked the husband
GLOW money does slip through ones fin
gers. would not have believed it. But
where is the balanc? Where are the five
dollars and half? Even that is too much
to lose. Let me see."
Mr.. Hall thought for a moment, and
then his thumb and finger gave a sharp
crack, and he exclaimed
eyes! That's it. Ipaid my barbers's
and my boot-black's bill, which added
together, make just five dollars and half
Well, 1 declare! 1t is astonishing,--
Would any one have thought it! How
money does go. I wish could never
see dollar. Money melts out of my
pockets like snow before the fire. wish,
in my heart, you would take it and see if
you can make it 60 farther than l do"
Mrs. Hall did not reply for some mo-
ments, and then she said
"I will do SO, provided you let me man
age things my own way for year; and
also, provided that you will be content
with five dollars quarter for your tobac-
CO and cigars; also, provided that you
will shave yourself and black your own
boots, or let me do it for you; and also
take your luncheon from home, instead
of buying it: by all of which about sixty
dollars year can be saved"
"Sixty dollars! It don't cost half of
that sum, Harriet"
"Count it up for yourself, Felix. Why,
a shilling day for lunch amounts to thir-
ty-seven dollars year"
$50 it does How little things do count
up. Well, wife; if you'll take hold in
good earnest, I'll do just as you say for
one year, and if you bring down the cost
of living as much as a hundred dollars, 1
will let you manage money matters ever
after"
off | don't bring it down three hundred
dollars, I am mistaken" replied Mrs.
Hall, in confident, tone; for the light
had suddenly broken into her mind
The account which her husband had Civ
en- of three days dispensation 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 quar-
ter's salary, after keeping three dollars
and half for my tobacco and cigars dur
ing the next three months When it is
gone, I will borrow as much as you want
to carry you on until l can draw more
At the rate Hall was going on, it would
have taken little over week to have en-
tirely emptied his pocket-book; but it was
a month before his wife asked for fresh |
supply.
One of Mrs. Halls first acts was to buy
and brushes, and discharge the
boot black. For week she brushed her
husbands boots every morning, before he
discovered that the boot-black had been
dismissed; then he accidentally caught
her in the act of frightening his leather
understandings, very greatly to his sur
prise. After that, he shaved himself and
olacked his own boots without feeling him
self in the least degraded thereby.
Five dollars quarter for tobacco,
cigars and other little nick-knackeries,
Mr.. Hall found to be rather limited in
,ome; but as he had agreed to meet his ex-
ra expenses with this sum, he felt some
ride in doing so In order to accomp-
ish it, however, he had to abate many
,lasses of wine and mineral water, and
INIT himself to certain number ofeigars !
ally.
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