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

her milk bill was settled once week.
Mr.. Hall sometimes complained little at
his wife's short commons as he called them, and
at being cut off from all pleasure-taking, but she
consoled him by telling him, good humorcdly,
to wait awhile, that there was better time COM
ing.
The year for which Mrs. Hall had u dertaken
to manage affairs at last came to a close, and done
evening she said to her husband
Here are my accounts for the year. They are
not very neatly kept, but l presume you will find
all correct
Accounts! Have you kept accountsp asked
Mr.. Hall.
oh, yes; to penny
We'll, how stands the balance"
Something in our favor, | think. There isn't
cent owed anywhere, except the balance ofyour
tailors bill, and you know had over hundred
and fifty dollars to pay when took the manage
ment of things
'Possiblep said Mr.. Hall, opening his eyes.
'Yes; and what is better, have about fifty dol
lars on hand
tIncredible!'
1T is true
But how in the world did you do it?'
Not by starving you all, you will admit
No, certanly-we have had plenty of good
wholesome food to cat; though l must own to
thinking, sometimes that you indulged us in
little seasonablc delicacies rather sparingly.'
1T had to be done, or else could not have
got along on the reduced income of this year
reduced by the necessity of paying offso many
little old bills
But how have you done it, Harriet9 You
havnt given me the affirmative yet
BY following this simple rule, Felix, never to
buy anything that was not wanted, and being
very careful when a want presented itself, to see
a0tether 1t aras real or imaginary. Hereafter, l
hope you will follow the same rule, and if you
do, you can keep the family on as little as have
done
Thank you, Harriet! returned Mr.. Hall,
smiling; but l believe won't supersede your
administration of affairs; although, shall insist
upon one thing and it is that you get stout
Girl of thirteen or fourteen to assist you. You
are working too hard
'Wait until next year
NO 1t must be done now. We can afford
it. But, if you think we can't, I will give up
my tobacco and cigars in order to help meet the
extra expense
'Oh, no. won't ask that Of you,' said Mrs.
Hall.
Then you must get the extra help
Very well, if you insist so strongly upon it,
suppose it must be done
And it was done. Three or four years have
passed Mr.. Hall is quite as well dressed as be-
fore, and his wife much better. Several articles
of new furniture have been added to their house.
Mrs Hall keeps cook and girl to help about,
and has much more cheerful and less broken
down appearance She doesn'twork half as hard
as she did. Add to all this the fact, that there
is not cent owed anywhere, and from one to
two hundred dollars always lying by, and the
reader will agree with Mr.. Hall, who has quite
changed his mind on the subject, that man
CAN get along on a thousand dollars: that is, #
he have the right kind of a wife and is willing
olet her manage things with prudence and econo-
my.
GENUINE PoErRY.-Thcrc is so little genuine
poetry nowadays, that it is quite refreshing to
meet with so beautiful gem as the following
None but those who have felt the "tender pas
sion," can fully appreciate the intensity Of the
poets "phelngs." 1t of course must be sur
missed that Miss Elizebeth--endearingly called
Bctsey-was a charming girl, and well worth the
poets alteration. Notice the beauty and sub
Unity of the following lines:
"My love she is my hearts delight,
Her namo it is Miss Betsey:
III go and see her this very night
If heaven and mothcr'll let NO."
But alas for the notifications and disap-
pointments that poets are doomed to suffer. On
the hcadboard of the young mans bed, the
chamber-maid found, written in chalk, the next
morning:
II loved Miss Bctscy, well did,
And 1 went there for to tell her.
But like to goosc-greesc quick slid,
For shc had another felcr
The best aneclote of Lorenzo Dow is, that be-
ing one evening at the hotel kept by one Bush,
in Dc,n,;;, New York, the residence Of the cclcbra
tod General Root, he was importuned by the
Iattcr gentleman, in the-FEescnco ofthe landlord