The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-23
From the Ne,c York Times. June 20.

From the Nesc York Times June 20.
Domestic ECONOMY in Town and Country
One OF the hardest lessons for countryman Il
learn on taking up his quarters in the city is tina
economy Is not the same thing here 40 there Il
takes several seasons for him to learn that uha
there would have been extravaganza and waste
here ia really thrift. Suppose that his father was
one of the good old school, who from his earliest
days was instilling into his mind the maxms Of
Poor Richard, how much, when he comes to
breathe metropolitan air, redolent of taxes nd
rents to the moueyseeker as it is of evil odors to
the stifed members of the "Can't get away Club. ),
how much he must studously unlearn.
In the country if one sees on old horseshoe in
the road it is good policy to pick it up and save it
it will save shilling the next time Dobbn goes
to the backsmith's; and, if too old for that, il
nailed to the ed of the shed, it will ma Ike good
hook to hitch the colt to. In the city it is bette,
policy not even to kick 1t aside with your patent
leather gaiter though it lay all clean the cross
ing. In the country if you cross a very straight
stick of hickory, dress it, and put it up in the shop
to season. On some rainy day, year or two
hence, you can shave it down to beautiful axe.
handle: it will come in play. In the city you
would do better to hire freshman to saw it up
for you, and let Betty heat the water for tea with
it. In the country every man ought to have good
large roomy garnet. 1t is so handy to stow the
worn out stoves in, the spinnn wheel the Jenny,
and the reel that have done much service. Where
else would you put your tons of old clothes worn
out blankets and quilts unfit for use? Where the old
bottles and boots not exactly out but too far
gone to wear again; the empty cocoa nut shells,
the flax hatchel, and the sieve too large for use;
the old brass andirons the broken cot the bedstead
out of order the frames of pictures long since de
parted, and the refuse furniture of quarter of a
century? Certainly the garnet is as useful as the
parler. The economist in the country never lets
it get empty, and when he has nothing ,eise to do
many a profitable hour he spends in brinpin o.
M n tn us hat hev
pose OF one generation, yet none the less capa-
bic of doing yeoman service in other line for
another. In year or two you will break your
stoveoven DOR, then the old one in the garnet will
refit you. You will want to send some root beer
to the boys in the hay field, the old bottles in the
garnet will hold it. You may find a spinser in
the family when your daughters are grown then
the hum of the spinning-whee will revive the
good old times Jane may go into house where
the old brass andirons, being repolished will fit
exactly. The broken cot, when mended, will be
wonderful thing to lend to poor sick neighbors
The old coats in which you gloried when a boy
may serve the boy you think of taking from Ran
da's Island for his best, and as for those that will
bear no more patching, mother will make rag
party Some day, and have them all cut and sewed
into carpet rags, and Mrs. Bennett will weave
them for trifle; and how nice the kitchen will
look in its variegaed colors you can get from the
'nattO, and lOgwOod, sumach and oak bark in
digo and vtrol
But in the city, wo to you if you have garrett
that holds over half dozen well packed shoe boxes
This trumpery would cost fortune in rent for
room to stow il in, and fees for carting it from
place to place. and time for keeping it in decent
condition. Here the economical housewife sells
the rags and the stoves and bottles to the first ra
man that will take them, Or in default of bar
gain there, puts them into the dust box. She has
the wheels and the reels split up for kndlers She
makes glad old beggar or two with the boots
who in gratitude bags pair of the more promis.
ing, and leaves the rest on the sidewalk She con.
structs bedstead in the low rooted attic, where
she will sleep when company has taken possession
of the spare bed, and lives under a lively sense
that room is worth more here than half the trum=
perry that she used to poke out of sight believing
the old maxim, that ga time will come round once
in nine years for everything that is saved' She
calculates Interest," and that the trfe she gets
for the cradle put at interest will buy mahogany
one when another is needed.
tits hard for the children who have been trained
never to throw an apple. pairing into the fire to
learn that it is virtue to burn up all their leav.
ings. They think how much their old friends, the
pigs, would thank them for such treats, and until
their consciences have been trained act upon the
new code, they feel pangs of conscience when thew
obey such orders 1t comes hard for grown folks
to look upon broken chair or bedstead as worth
no more than just its bulk of dry pine when sawed
and split and properly disposed in the wood box
Buff the family has com ortable income these
new doctrines are learned after a while, and the
rule to have remnants is pretty well enforced
The last department into which the reform enters
is the literary. In the country the girls naturally
save the newspapers that have stories in them
and when the man of the house receives, through
the post office, an electoneering document or the
prosy speech of the honorable Mr.. Dry as dust he
cannot lind it in his heart to put it to its legitimate
use the next time he fells the forest of beard upon
his chin, but it must be saved, though it be pro.
NOTED by degrees from the parlor table, where it
lay for awhile silent testimonial of the honorable
members respect for his constituent, to the book
case, where it is recognised document that
may be valuable and at last to the box in the gar
ret, nobody having read it meanwhile, and nobody
willing to be hired TO read it-yetit must be saved.
Every thing bound into the shape of book is held
sacred in the family. He is naughty boy who
dogs ears one, and reprobate who tears out
fly leaf. 1t takes some years to learn it, but after
he has paid Garments fees for moving them several
times and sprained his back in lifting the boxes
up stairs and down, and spent enough for a book
case to give him al mission to the best libraries in
town, and opened his eyes to see what an accu-
mutation of trash there is among his treasures and
reflected into how many of bis calf bound volumes
he has not looked during the year, and sees how
much nober collection brainless moneyed man
adorns his library with, he invites secondhand
bookseller to take an inventory of his stock and
make him an offer; he forms the desperate resoIu-
ton to part with every volume that he is not likely
to need, wins golden opinions from the women of
his household, and hen the carman drives off with
his cast off GODS feels little like old Pilgrim
when the straps on his shoulders snapped and his
OuFOen went TOllng Oh, ana ne LOOKS upon the
money he has received in exchange with the COM
paisance of one who feels that he has made CAPT.
jail bargain.
The wise economist does not practise upon the
best of maxims without reference to geography
He does not gather mamma which he knows may
spoil, because there happens to be plenty of it,
He docs not put ice in the pitcher in the dead of
winter, because ice is worth money in July, nor
lumber his house in the city with dilapidated and
furniture, because it might be of use
IN the country.
LGHTNlNG AT GREENWOOD Communicating
! recent storm. lightning struck the picket fence
On the southerly side of Greenwood Cemetery, but
a few rods east OF the lower gate. Commencing
with post No. l, and ending with post No. Is, the
result is as followa Nos. and were splintered
Nos. to 10 inclusive show mark of the light
ming Noq IL, -, ID, ID, and Is were or