Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-11-20

the same rules apply to them, as TO
young men, only that, as q general
| thing, they receive less for their labor,
but as partial compensation, they are
| free from certain temptations to ex-
travagance, which young men encoun-
ter But will speak of the time when
the young man and the young woman
marry. There are two classes who
should take heed. There are those
who are rery poor Here is posi-.
Ole case: young woman, one it may
be, Of a large family Of children, and
who has been used, all her life, to
the most strict economy, she marries
husband, who earns, we will suppose.
as much as her father used to earn; in
the case of the father, the earnings
have to be divided for the support Of
all his large family; in the case of the
husband, it is all to be bestowed ON
himself and wife. Now, if the father
has been able to- support his family
and keep out of defE, it is evident
that the husband ought 10 save some
portion of his earnings. And he can
and will with the help of his wife
His earnings will enable her to live in
luxury, in contrast with her condition
before marriage; and here is her dan
ger; to forget the necessity of early
saving, and to eXpend all the income
of the newly constructed family,
Then, in the next place, there is the
other large class of young woman,
whose parents are blest with compe-
tence, and they have never known
what it is to practice rigid economy.
They need to learn new lesson, and
they should learn it at once, to begin
TO help, in small economies. OF
course there are many contingencies
which can not be provided against
sickness may come and use up in a
few weeks all the savings of years /;
laid up for sickness, and the habit of
saving, than to be in debt, when sick
ness is past, and to be destitute of the
saving habit.
How do we spend our money, and
how may we save it? Too much of 1t
is spent upon our tables. | will indi-
cate two or three ways to which some
will not assent, but which nevertheless
are founded in reason.
1. We drink too much coffee. do
not here speak of the fact that very
many people seriously injure their
health by the excessive use of coffee
and then do not know why they are
not well l speak of it in a way in
which we contrive to spend large sum
of money. Health demands that cof-
fee should not be drank to exceed once
a day and economy strictly forbids it.
W. Alrnoak
all w Westerners feel that they must have
meat for supper; but comparatively
few need it; and both health and econ
omy combine to forbid it.
3. We eat too much of pastry, sweet
meats, cakes, and rich food, for health
and economy L have sometimes
thought that We squander more upon
our tables than anywhere else.
There is one habit, by which nearly
all young men, in these times, are ac-
tuaIly squandering fortunes: refer
TO the common habit of smoking.-
The ten cents with which young man
buys his cigar is no large sum, neither
is the three times ten cents which car
ry bim through days smoking. Hut
will yoUng men who indulge in this
habit, note carefully this little calcula-
ton of mine, which they can verify sc
their leisure. Those three ten cent ci-
gars day amount in year to SI0g--
so sE77t IS eeF4tetIti+1+, worth saving
whether to the young man or to the
old man, who is in debt for his farm
and it is all tUaated. 1t has done no
body any good. Now suppose that
our young man begins. from the time
he is twenty years of age and saves
800 year by adstaining from cigars;
he puts his savings at interest, each
year increasing his accumulations, by
not only his interest, but by the added
500. Has any young man any idea
of the fortune which he is certainly
accumulating By the time he is
thirty he has over $1,000 from this
source alone; by the time be IS forty
he has over 5000; by the time he IS
fifty he has over $I5, 900; by the time
he is sixty he has over $40, 600 and
by the time he is sixty five, and begins
to think about being laid aside from
work, he has a fortune of over $685.
900 on which to retire: and this, as
the grand result of saving simply SIOO
a year for period of forty five years
anu SOli pOullOiilS lIlSSIG6t Nt sSH pSE
cent. Now I appeal to the good
sense of young men who read this ar
ticle, is it not worth your while to
deny yourselves this perfectly useless
luxury, if for no other reasons, for
the sake CT the families you may all
have when you reach fifty years Of
age? 1t seems little thing to save
ten cents for cigar, but viii you not
consider. that in the course of forty
five years, that amounts to a saving Of
about $500 annually!
Mr.. Editor, do not presume that
all who read this article, will give
heed to it, but hope that some will
derive some hints from it, which will
help them to get on in the world by
reason of "small economies"
JNo. +. KENDALL.
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