Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-07

There is no excuse for the shiftlesSness, the
want of Judgment and lack of ambition, which
characterize too many of our young men ut the
present day in embarkng in matrimonial life.
IL has become the rule now at once to enter
boarding houses, or rent at exOrbitant prices
apartments in city houses, and years are dragged
along without bright look ahead, without pos
sessing in reality home, struggling from hand
to mouth, perhaps 10 pay rent oil boarding bills,
until after the best part of this life is passed,
while little or nothing has accumulated, the
whole income is needed for immediate wants,
and no chance is left for remedying the great
mistake that was made at the outset
In the first place it is not prudent for any
young man to marry until he has by economy
saved a few hundred dollars above the amount
which will be needed in providing an outfit. I'm
patience is only another name for imprudence,
and those who advise starting in life without
knowing that provision is made for emergen-
Cies, for the demands of an increasing family,
for sickness, and for disasters, are not good adj
visers. Yet too many times is the advice given
TO "marry at once or it may be too late" EreH
twelve-mOnth has passed the folly of the course
is felt and every effort is needed to ward OFF the
trouble and provide for the eXigencies which
should have been thought of at the outset.
Marrying and boarding is with majority of
our young people the rule. Some with more
energy than others, commence housekeeping at
once in rented tenements, and very few dare
attempt the acquisition Of home of their own
NOW 1 ulu uOl III SuCu uItuu VI lliG DuEDGhI,
debt, as many are, and believe that home to
struggle for from the first, and earned fairly and
squarely, is the happiest and best appreciated;
let our young men look about them and see how
many chances are constantly before them for
acquiring at almost their own terms, q com.
Portable home, aud our word for it, they will re-
gret the money they have for years paid into the
hands of landlords and agents.
There are, | venture TO say, hundreds Of little
places consisting of house and an acre or two
of land in our suburbs, which have been waiting
for months for a purchaser. Situated in local-
ties accessible sometimes by horse ears, always
by steam, they can be bought on the payment of
a few hundred dollars down, the balance to run
for a term of years, almost at the option Of the
purchaser at the legal rate Of interest.
Suppose place situated ten miles from the
city to be bought for $500, $500 down and the
rest in yearly instalments of $50 or 5000; we
have known of such instances, and doubt not
that any real estate agent can mention many
Others. 1t would require only an expenditure
of the yearly instalment, with few dollars for
taxes and fifty dollars or so for season tickets
TO clear the homestead in few years. As an
equal amount would be needed for city rents if
such were to be paid, and the advantage of
paying annually sum into the savings bank
for we regard an investment in real estate GER
tainly go0d-over putting it into a landlords
pockets is most apparent, Invgorated health,
independence, selfTeance, are the fruits of this
cutting adrift from city life, and that these are
worth striving for is the firm conviction of one
who has Observation-Disclosures Pioughmdn.