The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-09-02
Economy in a Family.

There is nothing that goes so far toward
placing young people beyond the reach of
poverty as economy in the management
OF household affairs. 1t matters not
whether man furnishes little or much
for his family, if there is continual leak
age in his kitchen or parlor; it runs away
he knows not how, and the demon Waste
cries, More! like the horseleech's daugh-
ter, until he that provided has no more to
give. 1t is the husbands duty to bring
into the house; and it is the duty of the
wife TO see that none goes wrongfuly out
of it. A man gets a wife TO look after
his affairs, and to assist him in his Jour
ney through life; to educate and prepare
their children for proper station in life,
and not to dissipate his property. The
husbands interest should be the wife's
care, and her greatest ambition to carry
her no further than his welfare or happi-
ness, together with that Of her children!
This should be her sole aim, and the the
ater of her exploits in the bosom of her
family, where she may do as much towards
making fortune as he can in thecounting-
room or the work shop. 1t is not the
money earned that makes man wealthy
it is what he saves from his earnings.
Self qualification in dress, or indulgence in
appetite, or more company than his purse
can well entertain, are equally pernicious.
The first adds vanity TO extravagance; the
second fastens a doctors bill TO long
butchers account; and latter brings intem-
perance-worst of all evils-in its train.
Scientific American.
EARLY WHEAT.-The Geneseo Farm
er, for August, says that since the advent
Of the midge the great aim of the grow
er has been to get variety that will
come into flower few days before the
midgo flies make their appearance. The
reason why the Mediterranean is so much
less liable to injury by the midgo (errone-
ously called weeyiD, is its carliness. But
it is wheat of comparatively poor quail
ity. What is wanted, the Farmer says,
is variety of white wheat, "as good as
Soules, and rs early as the Mediterra-
nean." If such variety can be found,
it is hoped that it will be exhibited at
the Great International Wheat Show, 10
be held at Rochester, N. Y, September
Sth 9th and 10th, 1868. Such wheat,
the Farmer asserts, would be worth
millions of dollars to Western New York
alone"
AN EDITOR SoLD.-The editor of an
English paper was recently presented with
a stone, upon which were carved the fol-
lowing letters. The editor was informed
that the stone was taken from an old build
ing, and he was requested to solve the in
scrption. 1t read;
FoRc ATT
LEToR UBTHB
IRTA lLsA0
A In ST.
Eminent men were called in TO cor
suit upon the matter, and after an i'm
mense amount of time consumed, they
were informed the stone was:
"For cattle to rub their tails against
A BIG bear was being exhibited in "a
certain town in the Green Mountain State
and farmer, whose olive plants had in
creased to twenty, wanted his offspring
to see it. But twenty times one shilling
was too much for his exchequer, and he
therefore agreed to give dollar for pri-
vate exhibition in his back yard, which
was DONE But when, after the "per-
formance," the dollar was offered, the
Snowman said with an obliging smile, 81
can't take anything; it is no more of a
sight for your family to see bear, than
for my bear to see your family"
A MAN down East has invented yellow
spectacles for making lard look like but