The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-11-03

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) at present. replied; but I can easily
4 convince you that we are possessed o
} them. Are there not seven rosy cheek
r ed cherubs lat least you call them sc
} when they are not in. misehief) nov
sleeping in happy Inconsistencies o
money and its attendant evils, each one
!, Of. hem worth its weight in gold? I've
J heard you say SO many time. Nov
at moderate estimate they will average
fifty pounds a piece. Even California
gold is worth two hundred dollars a
pound, which according 10 simple rnul.
tiplication, makes seventy Thousand dol
lars worth of those little heavenly bo
dies alone .s,e-7sft "a. ,-sf =.
Nonsense, Persy.' 7lsf1i
4 sOh! but it isn't nonsense. There il
is figured according to your own esti
mate, and q very pretty little sum it
makes to begin the world with. Now,
my dear, what is my love p s--s
I This was poser. My wife looked
up in haze of blank astonishment as
her mind grasped the idea, and trem-
bted for fear she might say nothing,
aud thus oyerturn the whole ground
work of nytheory. But as soon as she
had swallowed the idea and mentally d.
gested it, she replied: --.--
why don't you ask me what the air
is worth for I could dispense with
one as we'll as the other
I thanked my wife for the compli.
ment, and congratulated myself that she
had drawn no worse comparison between
my love aud the air; and continued
We'll then, what do you consider the
air worth p
i shan't answer any such foolish
question, for, if you go on with your
calculations. you II make US mi. lionaires.'
That's what intend to do; and l
think 1 am safe in putting down the
love at a hundred thousand. Then there
is my honor, which is worth at least as
much as the love-
I've no doubt of it, interrupted my
wife.
For you wouldn't value the one with
o1t the other. So there you have the
sum total of three items salone-cherubs
seventy thousand; love hundred thou
sand, and honor as much more, making
the snug sum of more than quarter of
million of dollars, to say nothing of
other items that might be mentioned, and
which would perhaps double the amount,
besides cash on hand amounting to one
dollar and seventeen cents
paused for my wife to appreciate
the full force of my reasoning, (she is a
little siow at figures ard whom she had
time to turn the whole subject in her
mind, l ask&d .
What have you to say to that?'
'All have to say to that replied
my wife, lis, 1 wouldn't advise you to
set up carriage on the strength of your
property, Aud if l thought 1 were
worth quarter of that sum, wouldn't
mend such looking stocking as this -
Saying which, she held up the stocking
of our eldest girl, minus the heel and
two thirds Of the toe, with large rent
near the top of the leg. And then
look at that, and that, and that, she
continued, as she SUCCESSFULLY presented
for inspection the various articles which
constituted the Juvenile wardrobe; and
L must confess chat seen through that
medium, my imposing array of figures
seemed scarcely large enough to fill one
o the smallest rents among the multi
tude. Still I fondly hope that my cal
culations had tendency to raise my
wife's spirits, and l was unwilling that
she should sink back into that slough of
darning needles and yarn. So contin
ued the subject
Clothes, my dear, especially in the
case of the children, are mere matter
of form, blind adherence to the Gus.
toms of society. If it cost more to
wear shreds and patches than whole gar
ments-if rents and rips coald be rem
deled fashionable, all the world would
be out at the elbows. But though socie-
~ turns up its nose at last years fash
though love looks askance at a
seedy lover, and even the Church puts
it's ban on the threadbare coat, you and
can jog on our way regardless of frowns
and favors, conscious of that hidden
treasure which gilds and brighteps our
earthly existence
And then, again, compare our con.
dition with that of our first parents,
when they had notice to quit from the
Great Landlord, and first commenced |
housekeeping on their own account
Their wardrobe vas extremely limited,
and I've no doubt Eve would have been |
very thankful for ninepenny calico,
and Adam would not have scorned good |
satinet, even though the cut of the gar
ments had been a few days old. Fo:
however rural a ig-leaf suit might ap-
pear, it is not exactly adapted for gen.
eral use, especially with the tbermome-
ter at zero. And I don't think that a
lady of your weight in the community
would appear to advantage in that prim
itive style of dress.