The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-08-03
HOW TO PAY THE RENT.
II ?. q, ARTHUR.

II D. AkIHChs
II don't see how am to get through
this year and pay my rent, and support
my wife and children" said a young
man to a friend as they were walking
home together at nightfall. "It looks
darker and darker every day. My re-
ceipts are not half what they used to be
aud my expenses are great deal higher.
Mary is capital manager, though, and
if anybody can steer the ship safe thro'
in doors she win. Such contriving and
cutting over. old things to make new
ones for Frank and little Fan, beats
everything ever saw. But the rent, ia
what plaques me. This house just suits
us, and wouldn't move, unless I vas
turned out;" and tho young man tossed
cigar out into the street, heaving .
sigh and quickening his pace, as troub.
led people are wont to do. sd.
"Thsre goes part of your rent" said
his friend, pointing to tho cigar ho had
just thrown away. 49,.
ga small part you would say I guess;
if you had fifty dollars te make up every
quarter, when you could not see where
tive Of it were to come from"
"l can put you in the way Of paying
one quarter with perfect ease"
''Be so kind a. 10 do So, then-the
quicker the better"
"Just step in here and let me draw up
a pledge for you, in which you promise
to leave off cigars, aud then when you
are tempted to buy one, slip the paper
out of your vest pocket and read it over.
"But then cigar is such comfort to
a fellow, when he is perplexed and wor-
ried to death with his AFFAIRS feel
wretchedly without one after dinner"
GLOW will you manage when you are
fifty, if you are such slave to bad
habit, at thirty? Be assured, Tom, it
will bring with it seven others more
mighty than the first, and you will be
bound head aud foot. Come, Tom, shake
yourself, aud throw off this tyrant. Are
you going to let your wife bear all tho
sacrifices and sell. denial, while you self.
ishly stick to Jour old Injuries. You
are more Of man than that, Iknow, III
draw up tho pc lgs for you and bring it
over to night-what do you say p 49,
"Pll think about it, and perhaps. I will
try it FOR . week." said Tom, who was
beginning to be half convicted. boz. +
THAT will never answer. You must
commit yourself to the fight. if you are
going to break up bad habit of several
years standing. You must 60. into it
body and soul, determined to win, or you
will be weaker than ever. Come, it is
fully worth the effort = chance to make
Fifty dollars should not be thrown away
these times"
Some panoramic pictures passed slowly
before Toms mind. He saw his wife
aud children in narrow uncomfortable
home; brought there because he could
not give up his selfish indulgences; he
thought of the pleasant, elegant home
from which he had brought his Mary,
when shc-frst placed her hand in his and
promised to walk through life by his
side He saw her slowly caring herself
out to provide for the little ones while
he put no shoulder to the wheel, and the
vision reused his really generous nature,
which too much ease had covered up
with rubbish. -
"I'll do it, Wilson," he said with en-
ergy. ~ will cut of that and all the
other superfuities, and see if cannot
help Mary in the retrenshing Of bust.
ness" b." 80 2" ~ !" '.'
His friend warmly seconded the reso
luton, for he knew Tom well enough 10
understand that the chief thing he need.
ed was to be fully aroused.
The good resolutions were we'll carried
out, and the end of the year found the
household still in the pleasant old home,
out Of debt, and never more happy and
comfortable in their lives. "a aa@E
Cut off the superauities this year, and
see if they do not 60 long way toward
paying the rent You will be 81! the
happier'for it. That is one of the surest
FIRST fruits of self denial. aa@6ss& sge {,