Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-11-07

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them the tears are the first food which
grief draws from the human heart,
when still it is full of life and vigor.
While with us they are like tho last
drops Of vitality, which despair wrings
out. The first is relief, the second
q torture.
They buried her in her bridal robes,
and she who was meant to be my
bride became the bride Of heaven
She is waiting there for me, and my
trembling hand and fading sight tell
me that shall soon follow her.
Some Plain Advice TO TO all sorts OF
People, suited to the Times.
To the editor Of the .Vsw York
Times:
Will you permit an old man, who
has gone through three panics, and
two general bank suspensions, to give
little advice to your numerous read
ers:
/ To business men who are in
deM.-Reduce as speedily as possible
your liabilities. Enter into no new
projects. Convert as rapidly as pos.
sible your merchandise into cash, and
pay your debts. Fear not large dis
counts in prices. Don't turn away
your clerks and helpers, if you Car
avoid it. Reduce their wages rather.
Be easy with weak creditors; help them
along, and enable them to help you.
2. To Housekeepers Of Hnai'eo
mseans.-By housekeepers, mean the
heads Of the family, male and female
TO them I say, introduce strict sys.
tenn of economy in every department.
Buy in small quantities and mostly
from day to day. See that nothing is
wasted. Pay cash for everything you
buy. Don't turn away servants unless
absolutely necessary; it is better to re-
duce their wages.
8. To Servants Remember, 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 liber.
al disposition, as really cramped ii
their circumstances, and hardly know
how to get the means Of living. There.
fore, for your own sakes, aid them ii
every plan of retrenchment and econ.
omy. Take small wages, or even work
for your board. so long as the trouble
lasts, rather than be set away.
4. To Creditors.-Don't be hare
with your debtors. Give them time
where there is a disposition to pay
and where time may enable them to pay
If you are rich, this is your duty f.; il
you are poor, this is your interest,"
Panic has hitherto ruled; let reason
now have sway. "Judge not, lest "
be Judged" may be thus paraphrased
"Grind not, lest ye be ground"
S. To the Rich.-By rich, l NEAR
those persons, who in spite Of loss
panic, and the general skrinkage Of
property, have still a clear and ample
income. There are many such among
US, Notwithstanding the shock that hal
disturbed society. To even such,
venture, respectfully, to preach econo-
my in all your ways. Don't dismiss
your servants; don't give up your
coaches live well and literally; fol-
by such means your wealth blesses So
ciety; but in the administration Of
your affairs, set examples of care, pru-
dcnce, watchfulness. Remember that
what you do is of powerful influence.
You furnish the creed Of world-the
great world Of fashion. It's good time
to review your confession Of faith
Have you not, hitherto, set bad exam.
pies, which have become epidemic, and
done much towards the present raging
fever Of society? Have you not incul-
Gated foolish, vulgar expense in houses,
furniture, equippage, dress? Have
you not set bad examples which have
begotten, in our hotels, our refreshment
saloons, and our stores, enormous ex-
travagance and enormous prices and
all this with general disregard Of pro-
propriety and good taste? Think Of
these things, ye envied, worshipped
law givers Of society, and il your faith
and practice have become thus vicious,
l need not say it is good time to re-.
form both.
6. To Mothers.-I speak freely to
you, for, as a class, I know not on this
earth those who take precedence of you,
in virtue and elevation of character
"A mother is, as it seems to me, the no.
Hest thing on this SHINING earth. And
yet, in New Yo,k, many mothers Of sous
and daughters, have been led astray.-
Many of them have INDUCED, and by
indulgence have encouraged habits Of
expense, display. idleness, gossip in
their children. Fast young men, and
fast young ladies, are rather the types
Of Uppertendom in Gotham. Shame,
shame upon ye, mothers Ipray you,
let the mast suffice, in this miserable
race Of folly. Listen to better coun-
sci. Let modesty, prudence, decency.
economy, be restored to their true pla-
ees in the family circle. To be fast,
for ayoung man, is vicious, degrading ;
to be fast, for young woman, is to
deprive her of the chief glorics of her
sex, modesty, discretion, propriety. To
be fast is very expensive, to say nothing
Of the moral cost ; in the mere reckon
ing of family expenses, it is formid-
able item. It implies complete waste
Of time, the great gift Of lie; it inn
plies . rash and needless waste of OPP
portunities for improvement and reaec-
ton /; it implies constant, careless,