The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-05-23
isAvEA .EITTsE SOMETHING


SAVE A EITT6E SOMETHING
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1.-The shadow begins to pass of. The
Hard Times are moving into the past. Now
let every man who makes living, try to
save something against another such Sc
ries of rainy days as we all were drenched
in last Winter. Let every man who earns
a dollar, put by sixpence of it. 1t is on
y those who save when they have little,
that can afford really to come into posses
sion of much. If we get good wages now,
certainly we should lay some Of it aside for
the time when we shall have less; if now
they are small and contracted, there is the
greater reason for contracting the expen-
ses, and pushing over into the list of luxu-
ries many an item that has been entered as
a necessity. a. me-. qso.s gyss.
This is the season of all others when
house-keepers should be sure that the gums
are cut over their eye.teeth. With pock-
ct full Of money, it is almost impossible
not to launch out for new carpets and new
furniture, handsome adornments for the par
lor and most fashionable arrangements
throughout the house, Surely 1t is very
pleasant to have so well-furnished house,
that it will never be necessary to darken the
parlor windows whoever calls, and to see
such table as that we shall not be asham-
ed to have any visitor suddenly drop in to
try pot-luck.t But it is pleasanter, when
work fails, and wages are cut down, to see
a bank-bOok that shows good balance in
our favor, and to know that IL bargain Of
fers, in potatoes, or -four, or coal, we can
accept 1t without selling our peace and per-
mauent enjoyment to that modern Times
Devil--a Debt Better go without the new
divan, and let the old chairs answer anoths
er year, and make the old carpet do, and
leave to the children the luxury of feeling
at home another year with the furniture
that we are not in deadly fear will be injur-
ed by the rompiBg little ones.
There are some things man must not
scapt himself in. workman must have
good tools, be he poor Or swell off, A
scholar must have books--albeM, he often
fancies a need of some whose places are
very handsomely supplied already. We
must have enough to eat, though two men
that eat enough, may each have the very
best of food, and that which is to his taste
too, and tile bills of the one just double
those Of the other. Very much depends up
on the skill Of the wife, whose tutored hand
can give to a cheap steak finer flavor than
is intrinsic to the dearest porter-house, and
make a dinner of herbs relish infinitely bet
ter than a stalled OK, that an Indifferent
cook serves up. ."- H.. ...,.- mE 30
.1 The times are not so bad as they were;
but market stuff is still very high, and few
of us get rent any cheaper than last year.
In such times, coat that has the marks OF
use upon it is Recommendations to people
of sense, and a hat with too smooth nap
.
and too high a lustre is a derogatory cir
cumstance. The best coats In Broadway
are, on the backs of penniless fobs, broken
down merchants, clerks on pitiful salaries,
and men that; don't pay up, The heaviest
gold chains dangle from the fobs of gam.
sbers and gentlemen of very limited means;
costly ornaments on ladies to eyes that are
well openl the disclose fact Of silly lover
or husband cramped for funds. And when
pretty woman goes by in suit Of plain
and neat apparel, it is the presumption that
she has fair expectations and husband
who can show d balance in his favor; for
women are like books-too much gliding
makes men suspicious that the binding is
the7most important part. 4l.s,xa ag3 7ea.
Now is the time to drop something eve
ry week into the Savings Banks. Look in
the glass and see how the white hairs thick.
en- on'yodr head. ~ Censult the family Bible,
and learn how few are the years. before yoG
will be past the prime Of your days, be rsck-
oned; good for only short days work, and moi
uPsto the earning offull wages. Note the
old folks OF your family, whom you mast not
let suffer, or be ashamed By the sight Of
their aeprivations; ;--ahd the growing little
ones, whose mouths are always craving .and
who must lack some advantages, ifyou lack
money! so,y Save willie you can. Never
mind what "folks think y or .Mrs, Grundy
says The new Maine, Law will brayely
help some in their efforts to get t.forehandI
ed, ,tsandsa manly disregard Of Fashion will
speedily place others 10 positions to be inded
pendent Of Y. Times, ,,...i ,,.'.i ,ssi y
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warm cold, npeEy. vet places: destroy
worms and Insects. dissolve the coarse &.
lbrss and stalksi and make hard, cIsysy
soils. open, loamy, and fertile. nsss,y,y J