Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-08-18
CAN'T GET ALONG,
BY T. s. ARTHUR.

'lnat SoDo people can get along SO coUioTt
ably on thousand dollars o year. w
cant do it, ia-as.-- q 49, o--.,.....s.f s-i
i am sure try TO economize oil !. can,
returned Mrs. Hall, sadly, for she felt tha
her husbands remark was more than hal
intended as airefection upon her. 81 only
keep our girl, and do, nearly all my OWL
sewing .s,-.s,. y "a I-,s...t,,,, -.
4 don't blame you, Harriet said Mr.
Hall. | am sure DON'T know yo,
work hard-tooi hard; 1 often " isl1s it wa.
easier for y ou. .5a But what cnnIs do ?;szsM5
salary is only q thousand dollars And ye
that is all Hawkins receives, and he seem.
TO get along SO smoothly, and even lays
BY, he tellssme, q hundred dollars ear.
4 don't know how they do it, ,'irepiiet
Mrs. Hall. Il know that Mrs.gHawkins
doesn't work half as hard as | do,. ,thougt
her house always looks in better order thar
mine.. They have better firniture than we
have, and am sure Mrs. Hawkin' s clothes
cost double what niue do. | don't think
it is my fault ssr--.s ..s
Il IdoD'tsuy il is, Harriet. + believe you
. da your part the best you know how. Bu
something must be wrong, scmewhere.-
Other people can live very we'll on thou
sand dollars, while We are always owing
bills to this, that, and :he other one. Here
is the quarters bill for groceries amounting
to sixty-fve dollars, md owe seventy 10
my tailor besides. Then there is an unset,
tied bill at t.the provision store of fifteen OF
twenty dollars, besides the rent, bread bill,
the milk bill, and don't know how many
other bills.' fsi2ezi t'sasAs - II 5s''5ss' y
Il wish these bills were not allowed to
/ run on remarked Mrs. Hall: 4 am sure
it would be- a great deal better to pay for
every thing as we go along ~
$50 it would, but We havn't the money
to do it WITH >2a5 ~ x!'StJs'h Z
Ittakes nearly my whole quarters sal
nry, regularly. to pay off the bills of three
months: and then there is no way to live
| but to 60 on trust for almost everything for
three months longer. It's a bad system,
know but there appears to be no help for it
Just now.' & so q -os6.,
And in the full conviction that there was
no heipafo it, sMr. Hall drew his quarters
salary of two hundred and fifty dollars and
went and paid off bills and borrowed mon
ey-debts amounting to two hundred dol.
lars. >2a@2
Then giving his wife ten dollars to get
little things with, he started, under afeel-
ing Of Encouragement, on a new quarter,
with but forty dollars in his pocket. Al>
though he paid two hundred dollars of debts
there was almost an equal amount still
hanging over him. ~ " ,57''.-.
q Mr.. Hall was clerk in bank, where
he was; engaged, regularly, from eight
o'clock in the morning until about four
O'Clock and sometimes five in the afternoon.
He lived in, a house for which he paid two
hundred dollars q year, and paid his tailor
from hundred to.a hundred and fifty dol.
lars annually. He carried a gold lever
watch that had cost eighty dollars,- and
wore chain for which he had paid forty.
He also INDUCED in one or two expensive
breast pins, and before his family had be.
come as largeas. at present, had spent a
good deal money in jewelry for his wife,
But the dropping IN of one child after an,
other, until the number grew to five, inter,
Tered with these little indulgeEcies very ma
tefially, and called so loudly for self-de>
nial that the appeal could not be entirely
disregarded. d But the seHdenial was prac.
t;sed more BY Mrs. Hnll-much more than
BY. her husband. She denied herself al-
most every thing, even sufficient rest for
her over-wearied body, while he went on,
in most things about the same as he did
when. he and bis wife paid eight dollars q
week for their boarding, and had just the
same income they had at present. But lei
us look a little more closely into his way OF
doing things, and see if it is net possiblsto
discover what appeared so great o mystery
to him. z-ag s.;4 < .1ssa = ssls.ae os.ssz7 Z y
On the day after. Mr.. Hall had spoken
to his wife SO despondipgly, he spent for to.
bacco and cigars eighteen and three-quar-
te. cents : for a luncheon and glass of
wine>sangaree, twelve and "a half cents
more; and in toys for the children, fifty
cents. ---5---- - --------.
6 He also boughr a bottle of wine, for
which he paid seyenty>6ye cents These
items amounted to one dollar; and ffiy>six
and quarter cents, in a. single day. On
the next day, he paid his barber's bill for
three months. which was three dollars and
a half, and his boot-black's bill, which was
two. dollars. Luncheon, and some cakes
and candies for the children, cost twenty>
FIVE cents more. Here were six dollars for
the second day, nearly all of which might
have been saved if he had shaved himself
and brushed his own boots, to do either Of
which would have been far more honorable
genteel and praiseworthy, than 10 indulge
in the luxury ofa barber and a boot.black,
ano le. his wife work herself half to death.
On, the third day5he hired aichaise and rode
out with his family after he had left bank
in the afternoon. The chaise hire was
dollar and!aa halfp and dstoll.gates and re-.
Geshments for all s6fty cenlsa raore4gsAl.
ready, in luncheon, cigars and one or
two little matters, half dollar bad been
expended by NJ. Hall in lhei fore part Of
the day. SO that, on the third day of the
week, pahreesdolhrsfb fbndsDeen expended I'M
necessarily. During this time, for mar
ketlng. shoes foe ono orstweof bis children
a,sdsundry adthen ns.expenses aincideht 10
large sfamily, ,ssix dollars meIsedi'fronr the
hands Of Mr.. HallaI nj syaqaq ssiqsis q @di