The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1854-01-04
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l-------t From the -NeW Y0fK Times
TO YOUNG MEN ON SMALL WAGES.


TO YOUNG MEN ON SMALL WAGES.
II man has steady business and is n.
ceiving wages, 10 iss duty1toilayiup some
thing out OF il. When one u Learning .
trade il is different, but after he has got
his trade or profession fairly starred,
and has plenty Of work. i is great shame
If he does moi "gei ahead'r III his money
affairs. Wages may not be a. high as
they should employers may be grasping
and grinding landlords may be exlprtion.
ate, yet with good health. a sound conUi-
tuition, and head Of medium brain!quali-
ty, man has no business 10 be, oAly ss
well of al the end as the beginning Of The
year. There are rainy days ahead and
cold storms, in which he cannot work
sick beds and unproflabls incpmbpncss
are yet TO come. ~. q
We had occasion the other day 10 show
how mechanic might spend 5000 year.
without being liable 10 the charge Of ex.
travagance, and that sum, our good Mayor
says, is as much as our best mechanics
get. II would be quite as easy 10 point
out how young merchant, doctor or law
yer will find it just as dificulttoge, through
the year on $1,000. Indeed, uhiilIwe ge,
among those salaries which, 10 Us bard.
working scrupulously economical men,
seem fabulous, the rate Of living, that
seems almost necessary, increases with
every increase of salary. An economical
man. who spends just $500 Of an $500
salary. will be put 70 il 10 save dollar,
when his generous employer raises i 10
thousand. The wings Of bis wants are
growing while he sleeps, and on Sundays,
when bis wages stop. And SO, ifa young
man, with small family. saves nothing
out of his small salary, there is very little
hope indeed, that OH Of a large one no
would save much. iar h'iys7' -"
A man must have the co.operalioa Of
his wife or il would be as cheap for him
to cease from trying before he had begun.
And il he has no wife 10 CO operate with,
i, is nearly as bad. We have heard Of
bachelors who made money the tiiing
has been,done. We. have seen such our
selves, but il is moi The case with the most
Of them. They generally spend more in
beaung their lady friends here and there
than it would cost To supports wife hand
sOmely. and help her suppor, the childsen.
They do not know how 10 save. They
pay for a poor garmeui as much as good
one shonld have cost, and venial rent is
ruinous I" it. They grow very mean
where they should be liberal, and scatter
abundanlly where il were TO their credi, 10
hold fast. Their case is very desperate.
but they should not themselves despsir,--
But when young married folks agree 10
save something, they cannot help succeed
ing. .lI-aaa3H
Rev. Dr. 0sgood, in his late Thauks-
giving sermon. said that more Than fourih
Of mans salary ought motto be paidfor
his house rent. A very correci nmaxim.
we believe, bu, ilEoulJ fetch grestmSny
men from their ropmy parlors up Ia third
story stics. But what sense isulhere in
paying half of all one makesfor a shelter
flom the weather! Il is a great shame
that our beneyOlrnce has not yet devisfd
houses which will accommodate us for
proper sum Of money. Lei the couple
league then TO gel so much room and'ho
more, as will furnish heallhful, aeOnycoi.
enl, pleasant quarters for themselves. 81
far as they want to arrange for the Tecep.
llon Of few tried friends, who move IN
the same circle as themselves, OF a hum
bic one, lei them do it, but by all means
avoid the vulgarily Of renting parlor 10
entertain people al whose coming thew
lremble. Why should independent. Van.
KEGS fear TO live only as well as they are
able The friends tl.at are worth saving
will think none The less Of one who takes
such rooms as he can pay for only, and as
for those who think otherwise, iteir frisnd'
ship is not worth so much as sixPenny
bundle Of straw. ,g
Then as In dless-it is great nonsense
to say thai all must dress tashionsbly or
lose caste. What is The fashioni Who
wears fashionable coat, and how do you
know it is The fashionl Tell US Of ono
substantial merchant. one thrifty mechanic,
one successful lawyer, or one gentleman
who wears il, and we will name ten Of
each, equally noted and successful, who
do not, and ten iops whom you utterly
,iespise that do. The fashion in New
| Ynrk for men inst now requires a clean