Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22
DAVENPORT. ...OCTOBER ~, 1857
Some Plain Advice to all Sorts of Peopi,
Suited to the Tunes

10 tie Edtfor 81 TIE Aeg York 1smes:
Will you permit an old man, who
has gone through three panics, and
two general bank suspensions, to Civ,
little advice to your numerous rea
dersl
l. To business men acho are IN deJt
Reduce as speedily as possible youl
liabilities. Enter into no new projects
Convert as rapidly as possible your
merchandise into cash, and pay your
debts. Fear not large discounts in
prices. Don't turn away your clerks
and helpers, if you can avoid it. Re
duce their wages rather. BE easy with
weak creditors help them along and
enable them to help you.
2. To Uousekeepers IF limited means.
BY housekccpers, mean the heads
Of the family, male and female to them
! say, introduce strict system OF
economy into every department Buy
in small quantities, and mostly from
day to day. See that nothing is vast
ed. Don't turn away servants unless
absolutely necessary: it is better to re-
duce their wages.
3. To .Servants.-Rcmember, it is a
general time of care anxiety and loss,
with your employers. Many of them
are greatly reduced in their means of
living; thousands Of them, of liberal
disposition, are really crampcd in their
circumstances, and hardly know how
to get the means Of living. There
fore, for your own sakcs, aid them in
every plan Of rctrenchment and econ
omy. Take small wages, or even work
for your board, SO long as the trouble
lasts, rather than be sent away.
4. To Cred,torS.-Don't be hard
with your debtors. Give them time
where there is a disposition to pay. Ii
you are rich, this is your duty; is your
interest. Panic has hitherto ruled; let
reason now have sway. Judge not,
lest yc be judged" may be thus para
phrased "Grind not, lest ye be
pround."
;. TO tie Rtch.-By rich, | mean
those person who, in spite of loss, pan
&c, and the general shrinkage of proper
ty, have still clear and ample income.
There are many such among us, not
outstanding the shock that has dis
turbed society To even such, ! ven
turc, respectfully, to preach economy
in all your ways; Don't dismiss your
servants; don't give up your coaches
live well and literally, for by such
means your wealth bIcsscs society but
in the administration Of your affairs set
cxamplcs-of care, prudence, watchful-
ness. Remember that what you do is
OF powerful influence. You furnish the
creed of world-thc great world OF
fashion. 1t is good time to review
your confession of faith. Have You
not, hitherto, set bad examples, which
have become epidemic, and done much
towards the present raging fever of SO
clety. Have you not inculcatcd fool
ish; vulgar expense in houses, furnit-
urc, cqulpagc, dress, Have you not
set examples which have begotton, in
our hotels, our refrcshment saloons and
our stores, enormous extravaganza and
enormous prices and all this, with a
general disregard of propriety, comfort
and good taste Think of these things,
yc cnvied, worshiped law givors of So
cicty, and if your faith and practice
have become thus vicions, need no,
say it is a god time for You to reform
both.
as class, know not on this earth
those who take precedence of you, in
virtue and elevation of character.
mother Is, As il seems to me, the holi
est thing on this shining earth. AnC
yet, in New York, many mothers OF
sons and daughters, have becnslcd as
tray. Many of them have INDUCED
and 10y Indulgence, have encourage,
habits Of expense, display, idlcness
gossip, in their children. Fast youn.
men, and fast young ladies, are rattle
the types of Uppcrtendom, in Gotham
Shame, shame upon yc, mothers
pray you, let the past suffice, in Thu
miserable race Of folly. Listen to bet
ter counsel. Let modcsty prudence
dsccncy, economy, be restored to thci
true places in the family circle. II
be fast, for young man, is vicious, de
grading to be fast, for young wo
man, is to deprive her of the chief Clio
ries of her sex, modcsty, discretion
propricty. To be fast is very cxpcns
i've, to say nothing of the moral cost
in the mere reckoning of family cx
penscs, it Is formidable item. 1t i'm
plies complete waste of time, tn
great gift of life; it implies rash an,
needless waste of opportunities for i'm
provcment and reflection it implies
constant, careless, destructive waste G
money. And more than all, it imr les
at least IN many cases, an utter break
inc away from parental restraint, coun
sci, and guidance. A fast young man
or a fast young woman, is, in ma
Jorlty of instances, equivalent to los
young man, or lost young woman
Is it not good time for mothers
now that our very homes are rockin,
with panic, ruin, and poverty, brough
upon us, IN part at least, by these er
rors, to consider their ways, and t
mend them!
!. To tie Young Lddies.-I woul
speak tenderly to you, for, in many G
of your follies, you are encouraged b
the sterncr sex. Yet there are som
which are your own. Let me spea
of two things-extravagance and mon
strosity in dress. In the DAYS of you
mothers, six or eight yards of silk wa
enough for a dress; now You mus
have sixteen. This cnormity does nc
beautify you; it renders you hideous.-
There are some of your fashions whic
are so disgusting as hardly to be spok
en- of mean all those devices whic
have for their object the swelling OF
| of yOur forms so as to Uive nroninanc