Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-10-07
Poor Richard" Repudtated.


writer in Blackwoods Magazine comes down |
upon the over-prudent of the day in the follow
ing Style
We have no hesitation in saying, that we consid-
der the who does not eXpend more than half his
income 5 a catitf and lose. How he expends it,
is altogether a different question but except in the
way of gross immortality, decidedly of opinion
that a scale of expenditure is public blessing. Wei
have intense antipathy TO the mean apohegms
which we occasionally see quoted we presume, from
the margin of Msers Amanack '' Waste not, want
not ;" pin day is a groat year; " penny
saved is penny got; " There are forty sXpences IN
pound and pound is the Seeding of hundred" No
doubt there is germ of truth in all these propositions,
for it is absurd to be recklessy extravagant as it
would be to eat Bank of England notes with your
bread and butter but the reiteration of them is often
sive, and they sound like the maxms of scavenger.
One coat in the year may be sufficient TO your
nakedneSs but If you can afford them, by all means
get three four. In the first place, your appearance
will be materially improved, which, let tell you, is
often no mean consideration, in so far as your own
interest is concerned Many clever fellow has been
doomed, through sheer seednes<, 10 hard struggles
and disappointment and has most Justly blamed his
stars whereas III fact the fault lay with his apparel
We are acquainted with meritOrlOus Wing who has
three times been cruelty used by his party account
of the inveterae greasness of his garments In the
next place, YOU have the comfortable conviction that
you contributing your Just share the support of
score of excellent individuals, including the farmer
manufacturer, and Ship, the tailor looks to you for
his daily cabbage. And lastly, you become the pos
SCISSOR of a stock of old clothes, which, if you have
the feeling of gentleman, you will bestow upon some
INDECENT Christian instead of basely barering them
10 a Levite.
WOMEN IN PARAGUAY-The author of Sketches
IN Paraguay" gives us this fragrant mOrseI: " Eve
rybody smokes in Paraguay and every female above
thirteen years of age chews. | am wrong They
do not chew, but put tobacco in their mouths keep
it there constantly, except when eating, and, in
nf 0ba oil oho Nh hair
and suck it. Only imagine yourself about to salute
the red lips of magnificent little t1ebe, arrayed in
satin and flashing in damonds-she puts you back
with one delicate hand, while with the fair taper
fingers of the other, puts forth from her mouth a
brOwnsh black roll of tobacco, quite two inches
long, looking like monster grub, and depOsiting
the SayOry lozenge the rim of your sombrero,
puts up her face. and is ready for your salute. |
have sometimes overdecate foreigner turn
away with shudder of loathing under such circum-
stances. and get the epihet of ell sdUacO (the saw
age) applied to him by the offended beauty, for his
sensitive squeamishneSS However, che gets
used to this in Paraguay, where you are perfOrce
of custom obliged to kiss every lady you are in
trOduced to; and one-half you meet really
tempting enough to render you reckless of conse-
quences, and you would sip the dew of the proffer
cd lip in the face of a tobacco battery, even the
double distilled = honey-dew' of Old Virginia.
PREcocIoUs WIr-The was some unconscious wit
and deal OF childish philosophy, in the reply which
little girla pretty, bright child, not quite four years
oId-mnde 10 her father. She annoyed at some
Old shoes, which she anxious should be replaced
ny new ones, and was venting her Indignation IN
rather boisterous manner than her father
thought proper.
What's the matter there, Cora have you got q
ftm
mo, papa, they don't fit me at alI.'' said she. And
then she enumerated all the faults of the shoes in SCI
terms, and reached the climax thus, Why, they
don't even squeak when walk out.'
Shocks wonders where all the pillow cases go to
He says he never asked girl what she was making
while engaged in sewing, without being told that i
was pillow case.-Er. Paper.
This is an evidence that the girls know how tt
answer fool according to his folly. Shocks is
good for-nothing, impudent fellow, to ask such i'm
pertinent questions, and the girls were right il
maE'ng shift, and not answering him correctly.