Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1855-11-15

pace with my income | should bave lost
much valuable time in going home every
day to my dinner; and my present situa-
ton would probably have been very differ
ent from what it is
Men and women accustomed TO CRAFTY
every whim and caprice, will find it hard
at first to cut down their various unneces-
sally expenses, and will feel it great self
denial TO live in smaller house than they
have been accustomed to, with less expen-
sive furniture, less company, less costly
clothing, less number of balls, parties,
theater-going, carriage riding, pleasure ex-
cursions, cigar smokings, liquor drinkings,
DC, DC, DC; but, after all, if they will try
the plan of laying by the "nest-egg," or
In other words, small sum of money,
after paying all expenses, they will be sur
prised at the pleasure to be derived from
constantly adding to their little "ple," as
well as from all the economical habits which
follow in the pursuit of this peculiarpleas-
ure.
The old suit of clothes, and the old bon
net and dress, will answer for another sea.
son; the Croton or spring water will taste
better than champagne a brisk walk will
prove more exhiliating than a ride in the
finest coach; a social family chat, an even
ng's reading in the family circle, or an
hours play of ''hunt the slipper and
"bllnd mans buff, will be far more pleas
ant than fifty or five hundred dollar
party, when the reflection on the difference
/" cost is INDUCED in by those who begin
to know the pleasure Of saring.
Thousands of men are kept poor and
tens of thousands are made so, after they
have acquired quite sufficient to support
them well through life, in consequence of
laying their plans of living on too extern
slve Il platform. Some families in this
country expend twenty thousand dollars
per annum, and some much more and
would scarcely know how to live on less
sum.
Prosperity is a more severe ordeal than
adversely, especially sudden prosperity
EASY come, easy 90" is an old proverb
Pride, when permitted full sway, is the
great undying cankerVorm which gnaws
the very vitals of a mans worldly posses
sions, let them be small or great, hundreds
or millions. Many persons as they begin
to prosper, Immediately commence expend-
ing for Injuries, until in a short time their
expenses swollow up their income, and they
become ruined in their ridiculous attempts
to keep up appearances, and make 'sensa-
ton
know gentleman of fortune, who says,
that when he first began to prosper, his
wife would have a new and elegant sofa
That Sofa he says, "cost me thirty
thousand dollars - The riddle is thus ex-
pended.
When the sofa reached the house, it was
found necessary to get chairs to ''match,
then sideboards, carpets, and tables, ''to
correspond" with them, and so on through
the entire stock If furniture, when last it
was found that the house itself was quite
too small and old fashioned for the furni
turc and q new one was built to CORES
pond with the sofa and ct ceteros "thus,"
added my friend running up an outlay
of thirty thousand dollars caused by that
single sofa, and saddlng on me, in the
shape of servants, equipage, and the nee
essary expenses attendant upon keeping up
a fine establishment, yearly outlay of
eleven thousand dollars, and a tight pinch
at that; whereas, ten years ago, we lived
with much less care, on rs many hundreds.
1.-The truth is, he continued, ''that sofa
would have brought me to invarable bank
ruptcy, had not most unexampled tide of
prosperity kept me above it"
10th. DO not depend upon others.-Your
success must depend upon your own in
dividual exertions. Trust not to the as
sstance of friends but learn that every
man must be the architect of his own for
tune. And with proper attention to the
foregoing rules, and such observations as
a man of sense will pick up in his own ex
perience, the road to competence will not,
| think, usually be found difficult one.
Z. 7. BARNUM.
BRIDGEPoRT, Com. June 90, 1859.