The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-07-26
Mistellanu.
HOW TO EARN AHOME.

at a salary or 5000 per annum, and pref
ty wife and baby TO support ont of it.
l suppose the income will sound amaz-
ingly small to your two and three thous-
and dollar office holders, but nevertheless
we contriye to live very comfortably upon
it. We live on one floor of an unpretend-
ing little house, for which we pay $50 per
annum. and kitty-my wife, you'll under
all her own work, so that we
lay up neat little sum every year. I've
got balance of two or three hundred dol
lars at the savings bank, the hoard of sew
eral years, and it is astonishing how rich
| feel! Why. Rothschild, himself wasn't
a circumstance to me!
Well, I came home with my extra bill,
and showed it triumphantly to Kitty. who
of course. was delighted with my industry
and thrift.
Now. my love- said I. Just add this to
our account at the bank, and with interest
at the end of the year and
Forthwith | commenced casting inter-
est and calculating in my brain. Kitty
was silent and rocked the cradle with her
foot.
I've been thinking, Harry said she. af
ter moments pause, that. since you've
cot this extra money. we might buy new
rug. This is getting dreadfully shabby,
my dear. you must see.'
I looked dolcfully at the rug, it was
worn and shabby enough, that was a fact.
4 can get a new velvet pattern for seven
dollars resumed my wife.
'Velvet-seven dollarsr groaned l.
well, then common stuffed rug like
this, costs only three dollars said my bet
ter half, who, seeing she could not carry
her first ambitious point, wisely withdrew
her guns.
That's more sensible,' said 1, We'll see
about it,
And there is another thing want con-
tinued my wife, putting her hand coax
ingly on my shoulder, and it is not at all
extravagant either
What is it ? asked, softening rapidly.
i saw such lovely silk dress pattern,
on Canal street. this morning. and can
get it for six dollars-only six dollars,
Harry! 1t is the cheapest thing / ever
saw
But haven't you got avery pretty green
silk dress? =
That old thing? Why, Harry, I've worn
it ever since we've been marriedr
rs it soiled or ragged?'
No, of course; but who wants to wear
the same green dress forever? Everybody
knows it's the only silk have
We'll, what then?'
That's just mans question: pouted
Kitty. And suppose you have not OBJ
served how old fashioned my bonnet Is
getting"
'Why, thought it looked very neat and
tasteful since you pnt on that black velvet
winter trimming
OF course you men have no taste in such
Matters
We were silent for moment; l am
afraid we both felt little out ofhumor, at
one another. In fact on my journey home,
| had entertained some serious thoughts of
exchanging my old Silver watch, for a
more modern time-pece of gold, aud had
mentally appropriated the ten dollars for
fiectionshad come later.
As we sat before our fire, each draped in
thought, our neighbor. Mr.Wilmot.knock-
ed atsthe door. He was employed in the
| same store as myself, and his wife was an
old family friend.
4 want you to congratulate me- he said
taking seat. 4 have purchased that lit
tie cottage on the Bloomingdale road, to-
day.
what! that beautiful little wooden cot
! tage, with the piazza and lawn and fruit
garden behindr exclaimed Kitty almost
enviously.
is it possible? ? I cried. A little cottage
home of my own, just like that I had adj
mired on the Bloomingdale road, had al
ways been the one crOwning ambition o.
my life-a distant and almost hopeless
point, but no less earnestly desired.
'Why, Wilmot,' said I. how did this
happen? You've only been in busines:
eight or ten months longer than 1, at ;
salary trifie larger than mine, yet coult
as soon buy mint, as purchase 4 cottage
like that
Well said the neighbor. we have al
been working for this end for years. Ny
wife has darned, patched, mended ant
saved-and we have lived on plain fare
and have done with the cheapest things
But the magic charm of the whole affai
was that we laid aside every penny tina
was not needed by actual positive want
Yes, have seen my wife lay by red cop
pers, one by one.
We'll, you are a lucky fellow l sal,
with a sigh.
Times are hard, you know, just now am
the owner was not what you call al
economical man, and he was glad to sell
even at moderate prices. So you see tha
even hard times have helped me!'
When our neighbor was gone, Kitty ant
l looked meaning glances at one another.
Harry said she, that rug isn't so bat
after all, and my green silk will do yea
longer. with cared
And silver watch is quite as good, TO
all practical purposes, as gold repeater.
said l. We will set aside all imaginary
wantsv
.The ten dollars must go. to the bank,
said Kitty, 'and I'll economise the copper
lust as Mrs. Wilmot did. Oh, how happ!
she will be among the roses in that cottag
next spring'
Our merry tea-kettle sung us cheerful
little song over the fire that night, and th
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