The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-11-09


in the purchase of the Museum collection. no
appointing money -takcr at the door. and
creditng me. towards the purchase, all the
MOI ey received after paying expenses, allow
ing me fifty dollars per month, on which TO
support my family. consisting of wife and
three children. This was my own proposition,
as was detcrmind so to live, that six hundred
dollars per arinum should defray all the cxpen-
ses OF my family until paid for tho Museum;
and my treasure OF wife is 'treasnre;' glad.
ly assented TO the arrangement and expressed
her Willingness to cut the expenses dove to
800 per annum If fnecessary. One day, some
six months after had purchased the Museum.
nv friend Mr. Olmsted happened in at my ticket
Office. at nbovt IL o'clock, and found me alone.
eating nv dinner, which consisted of few
slices of corned beef and bread that~I had
brought from home in the morning. .r,f f..ci ir
"Is this the way you eat your dinner he
inquired. ,.,.sv Nh .usf ~
s1 have not eaten o warm dinner since l
bought tho Museum, except on tho Sabbath
/ replied. sand intend never TO eat another
on a weekday until get out of debt" -.
"Ah! you arc safe and will pay for tho Mu-
scum before tho wear is out he replied slapping
me familiarly on the shoulder, and be was right
| for in less than year from that period was
in full possession of the Museum as my own
! property every cent paid ont of the profits OF
| tho establishment Had / been less econo-
mical. and less determined. my expenses would
/ have kept pace with my income; should have
lost much valuable time in going home every
day 10 my dinner: and my present situation
would probably have been very different from
what it is. -f.,,fE VIZ 9 l9I
Men and women, accustomed to crafty
every whim and caprice. will find it hard at
first 10 cut down their various unnecessary
expenses. and will feel it a great selfdenial TO
live in a smaller house than they have been
accustomed to, with less expensive furniture
less company, less costly clothing, a less mum
bcr Of balls. parties, hcatre-goings, carriage
rulings. pcasure-excnrsions. cgar-smokings,
liquor-drinkings. &C., Sc. &C.: but. after all,
if they will try tho plan of laving by a "nest-
egg" or. in other words, small sum of money
after paving all expenses, they will he surprised
AZ the pleasure 70 be derived from constantly
aiding to heir litlc "pie," MS well as from all
the economical habits which follow in the pur-
suit of this peculiar pleasure. The old suit of
clothes and the old bonnet and Dress will en-
swer for another season.; the Croton or spring
water will taste better than champagne; brisk
walk will prove more exhileraiing than ride
in the finest coach; social family chat, an
evenings reading in the family circle. or an
hours plav OF "hun' the slipper" and "blind
mans buff will be far moro pleasant than ff-
Nv or a five hundred dollar party, when the ro-
Election on the difference in cost is INDUCED in
by those who begin to know the pleasure of
| saving.
Thousands OF men are kept poor. and tens of
thousands are made so after they have acquir-
ed quite sufficient TO support them well through
life, in consequence oflaving their plans Of liv
ing IN too expensive platform. Some fami-
lilies in this country oxpend 800 900 per annnm.
and some much moro. and would scarcely know
how TO live on much smaller sum. Prosper
itv is more severe ordeal than advorsity, cs-
pecially sudden prosperity EASY come easy
60 is an old true proverb. Pride, when per-
mitted full sway, is ihe great nndyng canker-
worm which gnaws the very vtals Of mans
worldly possessions, let them be small or great.
hundreds or milliors. Many persons. as they
| begin to prosper, Immediately commence cx-
pending for luxurics, until in short time their
expenses swallow up their income, and they be-
como rninod in their ridiculous attempts 10
keep up appearances and mako a Sensation
I know gentleman offortune. who saws that
when he first began tn prosper, his wife rould
hare a new and elegant sofa. "That sofa, he
saws. "cost me thirty thousand dnllars!' Tho
riddle is thus explained When tho sofa reach
cd the honse, it was found necessary to get
chairs to ''match," then sideboards, carpets and
tables, TO correspond WIN tncn1, ana so on
through tho entire stock of furniture. when at
last it was found that the house itself was too
, small and old-fashcned for the furniture, and
new one was built 'io correspond" with the
sofa and et ceteras; "thus" added my frcnd'
running up an outlay of $4,000, caused by
That single sofa, and snddling on me in the
shape OF servants, equpagc. and tho necessary
expenses attendant on keeping up fine "e 2
tablishment.' yearly outlay of eleven thou
sand dollars, and tight pinch at that; whereas
ten wears ago, we lived with much moro real
comfort, because with much less care, on as
many hundreds "Tne truth Is" he continued
"thai sofa wonld have brought me to inevita-
bic bankruptcy. had not most unexampled
tide of prosperity kept me above it."
10th DO not depend upon others. Your sue
cess must depend on your own individual cxer-
tions Trust not TO the assistance of friends,
but learn that every man must be architect of
his own firtunc; and with proper attention to
the foregoing rules, and such observations as n
man of sense will pick up in his own experience
the road to competence will not, | think usual
~ bc found Difficult, one.
...,..,, ..,..,.s PIT. BARNUM.
Bridgeport, Conn, June %, 1852.
Daniel wstsssr's Epitaph.
At dinner given to Mr.. Webster by the
citizons of Alhnnv uifhnut di sfinction of mn rtv