The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-09-14
Behm's Commercial College.

This admirable school has become one of
the important institutions of the city. Its
founder, Mr.. Benin, deserves great credit
for the perseverance,, enterprise, and ability
by which he has built up his school, from
very humble beginning, to its present posi-
ton of influence and usefulness If man
who cultivates a barren field, and makes
grass TO grow where none grew before, de-
serves well of the public--the man that opens
new field of mental culture, and fills it
with useful knowledge, where the blanks of
ignorance existed before, is certainly a bene-
factor. How many men may owe their
success in life in the future, to a few weeks
tuition under Mr. Benin, from whom they
first learnt the importance of strict regu-
larity in accounts department of educa-
ton they would not have attended to, had
no, their attention been awakened to it by
the presence of this school and the annual
circulation of its catalogues. Its bene-
6cent influence is hard 10: estimate. 1t de-
Sci'cS eSt"Sioiy tue aOStciihS Naic vi. oui
business men. IL furnishes them Il corps of
competent and accomplished clerks annual
ly; and they can appreciate, better than
others, the value of the information and
the inestimable advantages Of the habits
which such a school inculcates, of keeping
systematic accounts of the affairs of life, in
personal and household matters, as well as
| the important business affairs. .-a--..s
A mans or wOman's account book, should
be record Of every pecuniary transaction
in life. II should he begun with the Miss
when she receives her first dime of PIN
money, and with the boy as soon as he is
entrusted with ''quarter" to spend for him.
self; and lift be persevered ia, it will be
safe TO predict that one will never he a bank.
rupt nor the other have bankrupt husband
If there be any one who has ever kept such
a set of books for himself from the age o
fifteen to forty, ask him what price would
purchase them of him? In them he will
read the record of the schemes, the hopes
anxieties--the misfortunes and triumphs o
life;--and he can trace in them not only tn,
events, but the causes that determined th,
vicissitudes-the ups and downs of his ca
reer.
Book keeping is science almost as es
sential to the woman as the man. No man
it is said, ever succeeded in making fortun,
without the consent and aid of his wife
The secrets of every mans success in lifi
is in the management of his household af
fairs. Every good housekeeper should keel
rs rigid system of books at home, as th
husband does in the counting room, Tbi
can never be well done without course o
instruction in the art. She must know al
about debit and credit-personal and imper
sonal accounts--how TO journalize and pos
and to prove all, she must make out he
balance sheet at the end Of the year to sho,
the state of the household finances. Thi
part OF education will not only be useful /
them as housekeepers, but it would max
them often help-meets to husbands in busi
ness-euablr them 10 manage their own a
fairs as widows-or support themselves a
: spinsters.
D We hope Mr.. Behm will persevere iu hi
: efforts to get up class OF young lady boo
Z keepers. A diploma from his school Ougl
!. to 3e to young girl more honorable in tn
!. eyes of sensible young man. than perfet
tion in some of the ornamental accom- plisl
. ments Of which hundred fold more labo
and time is expended than would be +,
o quired to make their poSscssors expert a
countants. She is most accomplishe,
whose knowledge is most varied, compile,
!. aud useful Ladies are becoming more an
a more ambitious Of initiating gentlemen
their masculine accomplishments; - |,
D them try the useful one of book keeping.
:. We are glad to see 10y Mr.. Behm's new a,
!, nual catalogue and circular that his school
still progressive, yearly increasing in nun
). bers, reputation and usefulness. From pc
sonal knowledge aud frequent visitation
we can conscisnciously say we do not thin