Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-07-16
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Fay as you Go!

The New York Times has the following ad-
vice, /, whicbif followed up, would prevent many
an 9 .~chingheart and sorrowful bosom. 1t re-
min, IA Is of some of FrankliD's excellent es-
says:
aW hat, not avail myself of this capital OPP
portunity for a bargain, Just because the money
f. not i'm nv pocket! There are a great many
oyr mercantile friends who draw most largely
young man to pay as he goes A sixpenny
has a better relish than your best dinner that
has to be paid for tomorrow. The potatoes
that are paid for before eating them have no
bitter taste, while a coppery flavor ningles with
the vanilla of the creams that are bought on
credit. Cash lards handsomely the leanest beef.
Credit makes the latest slices shrink in the pan.
If you pay as you 60, very likely you will fall
astern of your bold specializing %neighbor, but
you will have your vessel in better trim for a
squall. Men do not always get rich very rap.
idly who adopt this motto, but they very sell
dom can make out to fail. 1t may be hard for
them to get rich, but it is harder for other PEG.
pie to suffer very bitterly on account of their
poverty.
"The man who pays as he goes, and has
nothing but the suit he has on, and the meal
tina. he is eating, that he can call his own-how
much poorer is he than his neighbor who keeps
a carriage and a servant, and lives in splendor,
and owes more than he can ever pay! The lat
ter, one will say, enjoys all the money that his
splendor represents. This is very much a mat
ter of taste. We should not enjoy it. Widows
and orphans will weep when he dies, not be-
cause he has gone, but because his estate pays
only twenty cents on the dollar. 'Pay as you
co. and leave no unpleasant business for your
executor to transact. 1t is not gratifying for
the widow to have your debts to settle, and
children come by degrees to think less of their
deceased father when bills are presented that
cannot be met by his assets. Pay as you 60,
sleep sound o'night, and drive out the night
mare from your dormitory. Your account book
will be a model of simplicity. You will buy
what you want, and leave what is unneeded till
money is ~plentier. You will find the n~ecessi-
ties of life to be only the defamation of what
generally are called rich. Off their faces, tear.
ing the lean and haggard mask, you will find
jolly, lazy luxuries behind.
"Your library will contain fewer and choicer
books. Your wardrobe will be a collection Of
wearable garments-your home an aggregation
of comforts for every day use. Your wife will
be as tidy and neat as the best of them. She
will have very little old jewelry to exchange for
new, and the moths will not much trouble her
during those warm days. Your balance sheet
will always be a pleasant document to study.
The amount you have in the bank, the proper
ty you help, the stock you own, will be the
true representative of your means. Pay as you
go, and when you die enjoy the satisfaction
that there is but one debt left behind you.-
Ifyou have not any thing, the undertaker's bill
will not be very heavy-too small to trouble
you much afterwards. Next to having money
enough, the most comfortable thing, in a finan-
cial aspect, is to owe nothing to any man. Pay |
everybody as you 60, but pay the printer in adj
vance,