Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-01-09
vIrrrE a. FcoEnMY.

Economy is as much gilt Of birth as a po-
! etc gig, or any ctEer element Of geaius-
Some men are materially managers. 1t is
scarcely a matter of instinct. From thair
| childbood, we see traces OF this disposition
with many happy persons. 1t only takes a
/ large Ge,d of action as they grow older. Bat
The quality itself begins with their life and
ends with their death. Where one is biest
withggood sense aud fair opportunities. this
/ spirit Of economy is one Of tie most bene6-
cial OF all secular gifts, ana lakes bigh rank
among tie nl.3or virtues. Il Is by this mys-
teriuus power to as, always ara every where
I profoundly mysterious. til5t t4s vEi IS uaal-
1 tip.i-d Ahas using does not waste, that little
| becomes much. that scattered Fragments grow
90 unity, and hat out Of nothing or uext to
nothing. GENES tic miracle Of something =
| Economy is not merely saving, still less parsi-
mony. II is foresight aud arrangement
4 Ii is insight and combination. 1t is sublime
philosophy OF things by which new uses, rev
compositions are discovered. 1t causes inert
! things TO labor, useless things TO serve neces-
/ sites, perishing things to renew their vigor,
and all things TO exert themselves for human
comfort Economy is generaIship in all thugs.
I
arassed SO much money, who lives in no in
considerable state, is ostentatious in his fur
nishings, hospitable as good-natured vanity
prompts, and proiuse upon occasion. And
vet no man enters bis dwelling without a sense
/ Of iugniture-sufl3cat There is every where
! an impression Of superfGi.y. The whole ap-
pearance Of his household is not that Of aflu-
ence. but ofneedi5ssuess and wasJelulness.-
His table is overloaded. One feels in his
dining-reom as if he were in a paror market,
ana in his Saloons as if in a museum.
Close by him lives his neighbor who rents
| his house, the whole Of which might be swal-
lowed up in one story Of the ambitious man
sion alluded te, who is not rich, but who lives
on moderate salary. But all the wealth in
the city could not furnish his house 50 admi-
rably as he did by his one single act, when he
married the woman, now his wife, whose taste,
exquisite econolpy and sweet deeorum, place
be:Jre him every day the tairest domestic pan
orama-househo!d economy Her signle LOAF
is always luminous She buys where others
buy. And yet on her tables, butter is no lon
ger vulgar, but must have come from fair herds
psatured on fragrant grasses OF celestial pas
lures. The simple tea-tray, bearing inexpen-
sive delf, out shines all the gold and silver tea
service Of her neighbor. And yet there Is na
credit due her. Ii costs her neither pains noI
thought 1t happened so. Everything she
happens to touch happens right. Even The
babe in the cradle is economical. There i
lust enough, not whit superfuous. 1t i
her gift to evoke beauty, fitness symmetry
from all things! A single flower lights III
her room more than whole wall full of pie
, tures in some other houses. Is it strange tha
her husband thinks that Old bachelors mus
be fools? Why should be not? WHAT is hi
house but joy? Only in joyfulness is there n,
economy in this household. OF that, there
legal abundance and lavish profusion. Hi
evenings onIy soften the mornings joy to
little more sober tranquility. The whole da.
is but a calender in Il music box, and ever
hour a strain OF music, and every minute, en-
s point on The barrel lifting aud striking mu
steal bar.
But this is fancy picture! We don't kno,
any body OF this kind except 10 day Dreams
We have a little kingdom up in the air not
great ways up either, in which live the mos
notable people, the noblest danes, the mos
perfect artists, the truest friends and frienC
ships : and sometimes we. forget, and describ
these people of Air dom as If they lived dow
herel
&C But, We certainly do know men who Ii,
better upon a thousand dollars a year, tha
others upon five thousand. We do know
very poor persons, who bear about them
every thing sense of fitness aud nice arrang
ment, which makes their life artistic. Thel
are day-labogers who go home to more re-
a I, comfort Of neat0ess, Arrangement and propr
Or ETY., in their single snug room, than is to |
found in the lordy dwelling Of many mlio
aires. And blessings be on their good ang
of economy, which wastes nothing aud yet
rot sordd in saving; that lavishes nothin
aud yet is not porsimonious in giving, tn
y spreads out little with tire blessings Of tas
5, upon il, which, if it does not multiply L
lie provisions, more than makes up in the plea
N ure of giving. Let no man despise economy.