The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-03-19
HOW TO EARN 4 HOME.


an extra ten dollar bill in my pocket
money that had earned by out'oi-doors
work The fact is that am a clerk IN
a down store at salary Of $500 per an
nun, and pretty wife and babe to sup
port out of it.
suppose the Income will SOUND aInaz,
incly small to two and three thousand
dollar Office holders, but nevertheless we
contrive to live very comfortably upon 1t.
Ne live one fcor of an unpretcnded little
house for which we pay Sl5O per annum,
and Kitty-my wife, you'll understand
does all her own work, 50 that we lay up
neat little sum every year.
I've got a balance Cf two or three hun
dred dollars at the saving bank the hoard
ofseveral years, and it is astonishing how
rich | feel. Why, Rothchild himself,
wasn't circumstance to me.
Well, care he,nc with my extra bill,
and showed il triumphantly to Kitty who
of course was delighted with my industry
and thrift.
"Now, my love-" said !, Gust add this
TO our account at the bank, and, with in-
tcrest at the end of the year
Forthwith | commenced casting interest
and calculating in my brain. Kitty was
silent, and rocking the cradle with her
foot
GIVE been thipking, Harry" she said
after moments pause, that since You We
got this extra money, we might well afford
to buy a new rug. This is getting dread
fully shabby, my dear, you must see"
q looked dolcfully at the rug 1t was
worn shabby enough, hat was fact.
. can get new velvet pattern for
seven dollars" resumed my wife.
q Idlet- Siren dodorS." groancd l.
"Well, then a common turted rug Ike
this, would cost only three dollars said
nv cautious better half, who, seeing she
couldn't carry her first ambitious point
wisely withdrew her guns.
Z" That's more scnsiDle,' said /, " we'll
sce ebout it.
" And there is another thing | want, y
continued my wife, putting her hand coax
ingly on my shoulder, and it is not at all
extrsyagant either"
81 saw suon IoreIy silk dress pattern
on Canal street this morning, and | can
get it for six dollars, only six dollars llar-
ry 1t is the cheapest thing L ever
ss77s -
&" But haven't you got very pretty
green silk dress :"
"That old thing! Why, Harry, I've
worn it ever since we have been mar
ried."
"Is it soiled or ragged ?"
&" No or course, but who wants to weal
the same green dress forever! Every
body knows it is the only silk dress
"Well, what then
"That's Just a mans question, poutec
Kitty. And [ suppose you have not OBJ
served how old fashioned my old bonnet
il getting.
Why thought 1t looked very nea
and tasteful since you puton that black vel
vet winter trimming"
"Of course you rcn have no taste 10
such matters y
We were silent for moment; / an
afraid we both felt little out of humo
, at one another In fact or ny iournc
home had entertaining some serious tho
Of exchanging my old silver watch, for
more modern time piece of gold and ha
mentally appropriated the ten dollars 70
2 iurthering the purpose. Savings ban
T. reflections had come later.
As we sat before our fire, each wrappe
f i'm thought, our neighbor Mr.. Wllmc
G knocked st the door He was employe
@ in the same store as myself, and his vii
Y was an old family friend.
4 g want you to congratulate me, n
+. said taking a scat. | have purchased tn
e little cottage on the Bloomingdale road t
d day.
. What that beautiful little wcodc
4 cottage with the piazza and lawn and tru
h garden behind" exclaimed Kitty almo
d cnviouslJ.
a "Is itpossible ?" cried. A little CO
d tage home of my own, just like that ] h'
d often admired on the Bloomingdale roa
Il had always been the one crowning ami
lc ton of my lifc-a distant and almost hop
a less point, but no less earnestly dcsi
of ed
ID "Why, Wilmot," said |, chow did IL
happen? You've only been in husiuC
eight or ten months longer than !, at
gs salary trihe larger than mine, yet | cou
in as soon buy the mint as purchase acotta
h. like that"
an DWELL said the ncighbor, eve ha
,rs all been working 60 this end for years.
ol. My wife has darncd, mended and saw
Id. and we have lived OK plar faire, a
mt have done with the cheapest things. j
he the magic charms of the whole affair '
of that we laid aside creyy penny that '
not needed by actual positive want. \
net have seen my wife lay by red cope
the one by one"
cut Well, you are a lucky fellow" sal
mo with a sigh.
an. "Times are hard, you know just NJ
md and tie owner was not what you call
,cir economical man, and he was glad to
inc even at a moderate price, SO you see
nee even hard times have helped me-
When our neighbor had gone, Is