Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-05-28
Little Savings Banks.

"There is no use in keeping n pig this
year." said Mr.. Positive to his wife. 81
haven't a doubt but the pair we fattcd
last year cost us thirty cents pound"
"But think what convenience that
pork barrel and tub Of lard have been to
ls all this winter. don't know how we
could have got on without it, with all
other provisions So dear. ] am afraid
you will think a Pug costs so much ready
money in the fail that you can't afford to
buy one. We don't feel its cost when
we pay out little at time"
"1hat is just woman's way of looking
at the natter" said Mr.. Positive, with a
sneer. "They never can be made to see
that money III lump is just the same as
money broken into dimes and quarters.
You know it will be just the same in the
end, so what is the use of discussing the
matter"
Mrs. =. sighed to herself, "What's the
use, to be sure" She had learned by
experience that there was very little use
in trying TO set her husband right, no
matter how crooked his notions were.
Her only consolation was, in the present
matter, that experience is a sure, if not
dear school.
Wei, the season rolled round There
was much refuse ir IN the kitchen that
must be wasted because there was moth
ing to eat it, which would have gone a
long way towards keeping pig. The
time for packing down the pork had
come, and, as is quite common, it had
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two cents pound higher than was ex-
pectcd, and Mr.. Positive was indignant.
"Catch him paying such an exorbitaut
price for pork. No, indeed he could 60
without rather than submit to such cx.
tortou. Forty dollars good pig would
cost him. lie should like 10 know where
the money was to come from. He had
Mt half that sum ahead"
Mrs. =. did not say 81 told you so, -
but AIN afraid she looked it little, aud
| am quite confident she thought it. Mr.
Positive was convinced, if he did not
own it. lie missed his delicate dough
nuts, and delicious flakey pie crusts thai
winter, and he was obliged to depend OF
a very indifferent market for his supply
of meat and sausages. And then tht
sum paid seemed greater Than the cost
fall the corn he bought for his last year:
pigs.
The fact was that he learned what
many are slow to learn, that such thing,
as pigs and poultry are the householders
savings banks. The money they spent
on them would be frted away on trities
and not sayed up so as to constitute 4
fund for making such purchases all at
once. They help, also, to form habits
of trugality and thoughtfulness, with
out which no one can thrive.
| know lady who always puts hel
refuse into the stove. If crumbs anc
crusts are left over, they are scraped into
the fire. If a pie is burnt so as to b(
unfit for the table, it shares the same fate
1t is very bad example to set before
children and servants, and may lay the
foundation OF future thIiftlesSness and
poverty.
1t is handy thing to have dozen oil
two Of nice chickens to fall back on i'll al
emergency, when a good dinneris wanted
for unexpected guests. Poultry Is al
ways nigh, and ont of the reach of man!
who could easily raise brood or two o
chickens and never miss their food. /
takes prudence and painstaking to dc
this economically, but it pays for th'
convenience and comfort it brings to th'
family Country Gentleman.