Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-07-02

| he felt to be no tritling matter.
Suppose you count up what you have spent ?
suggested Mrs. Hall, and see how much it is
exactly. Perhaps you have laid out more than
you think for
sI've not laid out half of sixteen dollars.
But we will count up
In the first place the spendings for marketing,
shoes and the sundres that went into the family
were recalled with some effort, and the snm of
six dollars finally made out.
Mr.. Hall, leaving deficiency of ten dollars and
half
! But you forgot the carriage hire
True. That was two dollas-making eight
| dollars
And you know you bought milk and cakes
| for the children, and paid the toll-keeper.'
so did. Let me see how much | paid ex-
actly. Just fifty cents to a fraction.
eihen we have eight dollars and fifty cents ac-
counted for which leaves eight dollars deficient.
Think, now, what you spent for yourself, yester-
day and the day before
Not eight dollars nor eight cents But let
me see There is my luncheon every day, for
three days-iust thirty-seven and half cents
True! And there is Il bottle Of w;ne, I'd for
gotten that-serenty-fvc cents. Yes. ana HOW
fremembcr I paid ha't dollar for ;hc toys
brought the bhidret.
so much.
yes. 1 had to b*y 5og ali Ct them, sad even
cheap toys, where you have 10 get so many OF
them, count up. But We must indulge the chill
dren sometimes. | have spent, also, for cigars
and tobacco, the trae of thirtyone cents; and for
paper folder quarter. And in cakes and
candies for the children, | may have spent, may
be, a shilling. Let me see how much all these
amount to-
The items were soon summed up, and the pro-
duct was two dollars and nearly a half.
That, you see, reduces it to five dollars and
half said Mrs. Hail.
so it does remarked the husband. How
money does slip through ones fingers Il would
not have believed it. But where is the balance'
Where are the five dollars and half! Even
that is too much to lose. Let me sec.'
Mr.. Hall thought for a moment and then his
thumb and finger gave sharp crack, and he ex-
claimed
Yes! That's it! paid my BARRIERS and my
boot blacks bills, which added together make
Just five dollars and half. We'll, declare! 1t
is astonishing! Would any one have thought
it? How --aF-AA-A-eA>t- t-f-.u;ah could nev",
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 iSgo
any further than do
Mrs. Hall did not reply for some moments,
and then she said
4 WI! do so, provided you let me manage
things in my own way for a year; and, also, pro-
vided that you will be content with five dollars
quarter for your tobacco and cigars; also pro-
yidcd that you will shave yourself, and black
your own boots or let me do it for you; and al
SO take your luncheon from home instead of buy
ing it, by all which about sixty dollars year
can be saved
Sixty dollars! 1t don't cost half of that sum,
Harriet
Count for yourself Felix Why shilling a
day for lunch amounts to thirty-seven dollars a
year
so it does? How little things do count mp.
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 hundred
dollars, l will let you manage money matters ever
AFTER
If l don't bring 1t down three hundred dol
lars, am mistaken replied Mrs. Hall, in con-
fdent tone; for light had suddenly broken into
her mind. The account which her husband had
given of three days dispcnsation 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, af-
ter keeping three dollars and hafffor my tobac-
co and cigars during the next three months
When it is gone, l will borrow as much as you
want 70 carry you on until can draw more mon
ey.'
At the rate Hall was going on, it would have
taken little over aweek to have entirely emptied
his pockct-book; but it was month before his
wife asked him for fresh supply.
-~Qpe of Mrs. Halls first acts was to buy black
ing ana Ssasass end -dd;s.A.ssSse the bootblack'-
For week, she brushed her husbands s- boots
every morning, before he discovered that the boot
black had been A;s!ai:sei; lhan hc Accidentally
caught her II tor &c; N bi@hEcujpg his leather
underestimate e. 1r .1aatly tol,e snrNGisa At'
ter that, he siHna. '@ul~a.t qai h,a2s-l ais aT'2
boots without ,.t;rn himself " enc less. !".;!a-
ded thereby.
Five dollars IL qua. ~ - aDaccy, cgars. and
other little nick-mackuries, Mr.. Hall found to be
rather limited income; but as he had agreed to
meet hi. extra expenses with this sum, nc felt
some pride in doing SO. In order to accomplish
it, however, he had to abate many glasses of wine
,p1 r,innr,1 u,tor op1 limit bimsolft to nnrf ain