Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-11-13
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From the murmurs which are continually heard rela-
five to want of work. seems that there are in the COM
munty very large class willing and able to labor, who
are nevertheless ahead, and who, while times
good never lay by a penny for rainy day. A sudden
check dismissal from labor, finds them without pen
ny in the pocket and then comes the cutlery Now we
know perfectly well that nothing is so easy for
to aIegc reasons for not saving. He has family
times are always so hard-would you begrudge him his
occasional amusement-who could anything out Of
dollar day? So the argument goes, and he lives
cordingly from hand to mouth he would his wages
were ten times higher.
orally most saving and fore handed those who are
really all things considered among the poorest The
laborer mechanic gaining from fifty cents to two dol
liars per diem is not obliged to dress well spend
much as many persons following sedenary occupations,
who have salaries but very little larger than those Of the
former very large proportion of the clerks, copysts
and assistants, in all sorts of mercantile and manuac
turing business, to say nothing of young professional
men, but little than the average of mechanics
frequently not nearly much and yet We have
tanned that in proportion to their numbers, they
genealy saving and thrifty In fact there is one rule
which ought to be ollowed-that everybody should save
como what may, certain proportion of income There
is no getting this for periods of suffering rainy
days. should be calculated on just as much friction
must be allowed for in machinery The man who makes
his calculations on always earning SO much per diem
Sundays, Fourth of July and Christmas excepted is
unatc.
The fact is that ALL nation, the least given
to saving of any on the face of this earth. If Miss
Million has a rich silk not only must Miss Thousand
and Miss Hundred sport the same but the Misss Ftie
and Twenes must all strain every to come
possible to the great original Almost as closely arc
the extravagancies of Papa Million rivaled by the small
Ter Messieurs Thousand, Hundred and so it goes down
to the very dimes and sixpencesa of which must have
nearly the stamp at least if they cannot have the
same weight The style of furniture must be found
every paror the upholstery through every house
the large mirrors and curtains, whether there bt
hundreds thousands hundreds of thousands to back
it-and poor rvaly of the ostentation of wealth is al
the bottom of it ALL interfering with thrift, wher
thrift is longed for Until the duty and necessity O.
saving generally understood, we shall remain what
we are now the most extravgan nation the face o
the earth.
1t is somewhat remarkable that thrift and economy
the kind which would inculcate, have really nothing
in with penicious meanness, while on the othe
hand the barren extravaganza sprngng from rivalry
does generally interfere very seriously with the enjoy
ment Of life. Remember that real pleasures especially
those of intellectual and social cost cost but little,
do indeed the necessares of life and there few
persons earning living who cannot enjoy them and b.
saving too if they will only leave other people with the
fnery to themselves. Such is to degree, the charac
ter of life in many countries in Europe, where the in
come what ever it is is always understood to admit
certain relative proportion of amusement we'll o
saving,