The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-12-31
BUY ONLY WHAT YOU WANT.

TO buy nothing you do not want is
maxim as old almost as society itself.
But it is also ore that is continually
slipping out of mlnd, and which cannot,
therefore, be brought forward again too
frequently. Spending money, in fact,
is vice common to human nature.
Where one man degrades himself By
Dem m'Scr, ten run constant peril Of
running themselves by extravaganza. 1t
is so fine to have elegant furniture. to
live in handsome house, or TO dress
ones wife and Children in rich apparel.
that it requires an unusual degree of
hrmness, especially in this prosperous
age, 10 resist the temptation. II every
body was compelled to pay cash for such
qualifications, there would be some
slight check on this tendency to useless
expenditure. But credit is SO easily OBJ
tanned in this county, and buyers are so
Sanguln" OF being ready when settling
day comes, that thousands Of famiIi-s
are induced annually to clipple their
future comforts, BY INDUCING in present
iolli"S. Half the men who reach old
age inpos"r'shed; and perhaps even
a greater number, owe their dependant
diilon, at the saddest Of all times to
be beggared, to ear y extravagence.
If We were all to buy only wha, we
wanted, this would not be. We were
far from recommvndin, ni-yardlv par
! smony; for one oithe purposes of wealth
is that it should BE- distributed in en-
couraging trade and the arts. But still
even the wealthiest, with few cxccIi;ou,
frequently buy what they do not want;
while those less favored ircrssantlv vio-
late this golden rule. The preacher,
lawyer or physician, attracted BY some
new and costly book, persuades himself
that his profession requires he should
have it, and spends on sum that he Of
ten needs Tor more Necessary purpose.
before the year is over. The wifi, charm
ed BY new style Of dress, lavishrs away
her money, is Delighted for while, but
lives to repent it, il she is woman If
sense. The father, proud of his dau-!l-
ter. thinks no expense too great to gra'l-
| ~ her whlms. The'young man, fond
Of horses does not stop 10 coun, the cost
when governing famous trotter The
fashionable couple, who like to be sur
rounded With mirrors, pictures and fine
furniture generally, squander money
dl'p'oportlonately on such costly gew-
gaws. Yet all learn, sooner or later, to
regret what they have done, since they
find they lave added nothing to their
happiness, as tens Of thousands have dis
covered before; after buying what they
did not really want.
F:anAIin's homey story about the
whistle, would be well to be remember.
ed by us all. 1t is not enough that a
purchase grat'fips Us at the time. To
De JudlcIous expenditure, it should be
such one as We can rpcur to afterwards
with satisfaction. If Mrs. A., when she
moves into her new house, spends so
much money on furniture that her hus.
bands dinners suffer by it, is he not pay
ing too dear for his whslel If Mrs. i.
gives so elegant party to her friends
that the l.ousrkeeper is stintel all th.
resi- of the winter; il Mrs. g., by gong
to Cape May with her daughters, makes
such an nrDad on her husbands salary.
that his old coat has to las. smother
winter, If Mrs. D's. piano for that prodi-
gy, "Our Marianne,' takes the earnings
of whole weeks what is all this hnt
paying TOO dear for the whistle1 When.
ever We buy what we don't want, we
deprive ourselves Of things we reallv
require. TO be wise is 10 err, ifany.
thing, on the other SIDE, If we deny
ourselves little, il we learn to buy
nothing until We ave sure we want it,
we shall both avoid its pe-,ls and extra
vagance and discipline our characters.
A'"'d the hurry and 'emg'a''aa. Of tal.