The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-12-13

tHS o'ut's, "u', ~ iS SCuISCiJ iicCutui w
say, were vesy glad to enter Into the
arrangement. Ready money is Tie
great support of trade, aud cash cuo-
toner is worth two who purchase OH IL
credit. pl avis. Nz ..t...
Fortunately Mrs. Newton had a
small supply of money beside har,
which lasted till the fret mouthly in-
stallment from her husband became
due. Thus she Was enabled to carry
out her cash plau from the begin
ming. - ,pf,......- s.a ~.
qa Another plan vhich occurred to her
as likely to save expense was to pur-
chase articles in large quantities.
She had soon saved enough FROM the
money allowed her to do this. For
example instead of buying snrar
few, pounds at a time, she purchased q
barrel, aud SO succeeded in saving a
q cent or moro on the pound. This,
perhaps, amounted to but trihe in
the course of n Year, but the same
system carried out in regard to other
articles yielded Il rcsult which was
by no means n trifle. ....
There is other ways in which a
careful houaekeeper is able to limit
expense, which Mrs. Newton did not
overlook. With an object in view
she was always on the lookout to pre-
vent waste, and to get the full value
of whatever was expended, The re-
suit WAS hey Iond her anticip.tions.
; At the close OF the y'ar, ou exauin-
ing her bouk back = for ehu regularly
deposited whatever money she had
no Occ.siun to use in Que of these in
) stitu, ,ion>--sh- found she had one
hundred aud fifty dollars, besides re-
imbursing herself for the money used
du,ing the first month, aud having
cuough left to last another. 1885,.
"Well, Il iz,beth, have You kept
within your allowance !" asked her
husband at this time. 81 guess you
have uot fuuud i, S, easy to save as
: jou Thought fur .. .....
.t"I have saved something, howov-
er," saiu his wife. "But how is it
, with Sou |" .. -.. ..... -......
"Thal's more than lean say. However
/ have not exc" eded my income,
that's one good thing. We have liv.
! cd full as we'll, and l don't know but
better than last year when we spent
five hundred" ..sa.s ,...........
ats kuaok Ezra,' said his wife
smiling. ......
She was not inclined to say how
much sho had saved. She waited
some timc or other, to surprise him
with it when it would be of some SER
vice: ....... .......
'She may possibly have saved up
twenty five dollars,' thought Mr..
! Newton, cor some such trife,"
and so dismissed the matter from his
+, mind. ..... ...,
! At tho end of the second year, Mrs. ..
! Newton's savings, including the in
tercst, amounted to three hundred
and fifty dollars, and she began to feel
quite rich.
Her husband did not think to in
:! quire how she had succeeded, suppos-
! ing, as before; that it could be but a
very small sum. ,.... ...
| However he had a good piece of
news to communicate. His salary
had been raised from thousand
to twelve hundred dollars. lie add
ed
GAS t before allowed you one-half
my income for hou. chold expenses, it
is no more than fair 1 should do so
now. That will give you better
chance to save part of it than before.
Indeed, I don't know how you have
succeeded in saving thus far"
As before; Mrs. Newton said that
she had saved something, without
specifying the amount.
/ 1er allowance was Increased 60 six
hundred dollars; but expenses were
not proportiohaIly increased at ali !;
80 that Fer savings for the >third year
swelicd the asgl egale sum in tho say.
ings bank to six hundred dollars.
| Mi. Newton, on the contrary, in
spite of his increased salary, was no
better off at the end Of tho third Year
than before. His expenses had IN
creased by q hundred doflars5 though
he would have found IL difficult to
tell in what way his comfort or Iiapi-
ness had been increased thereby. En-
spitc OF BlS carelebsh 3SS In regard 10
his own affairs, Mr.. Newton Was an
excellent man in regard to business,
and his services wero valuable to his
employers. They accordingly in
creased his salary from sine to timc
! Gill it reached sixteen hundred dol:
lars. He had steadily preserved the
custom ofassiguing ono half his wife
I for tho same purpose as heretofore. aud
this bad become such u haUit that he
never thought to inquire wbothcr she
found it Necessary to employ tho
whole or not.
/ Thus ten years rolled away. Dur
ing all thistime Mr.. Newton lived in
lthe stSiie hired house, for which ho
paid an annual rent Of one hundred