The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-05-08
Il Life-LesSOn.

fought through from BaiIS Bun 10
Richmond-had come out With a
Captains commission-and had found
his way, Immediately upon his dis
charge to his early love, and demand
ed her helping hand in the COM
mencement of his peaceful life. Alice
did not refuse him. She had held
him in her heart through the dark
years, and now, in the glow of the
glad light, she Joined hands with him
happily and hopefully.
Albert had come from the army
with but little money; but he had a
good trade, ard stout heart, and
strong pair of hands, and had borrow
ed no trouble for the future. Alice
had saved up few hundred dollars
from her wages as q teacher, and
when the twain had become man and
wife they found, upon a careful inven-
tory, that they had enough to furnish
small house comfortably. Albert
proposed that they should hire a tene-
ment in the city; but Alice thought
they had better secure a pretty cot
tage in the suburbs-a cottage which
they might, perhaps, in time, make
their own.
Albert had no disposition to argue
the question; so the cottage was found
and secured. It was q pleasant, rural
location, and so connected with the
city by rail, that Albert found no diff
ficulty in going to and from his work.
shop.
During her five years experience in
school-tesching Alice had learned
many things, and having been an or
~ oorIrv M ~, rranha tha
problems of real life one of her chief
studies; and what she had learned il
this latter department served her well
in her new station. After marriage
she found Albert to be just the man
she had known him to be in other
years. He was kind to fault; free
hearted and generous, ready always
to answer the call of friendship; and
prone to pluck the flowers that
bloom to-day, regardless of what
might be nurtured to bloom tO-mor-
row.
They had been married but a few
months when Alice found he was not
cutting his garments according to his
daily supply of cloth. Not a shred
was he likely to save up for a rainy
day to come. "Albert," she said to
him, one evening, "do you know we
ought to be laying up little some
thing?"
Albert looked up from his paper and
waited for his wife to elucidate.
''I think 1 heard you tell Mr..
that you had no money
that you paid out your last dollar this
Exactly, my dear; but you know
tomorrow is pay day?"
"And you have spent your last
months earnings?"
eyes"
A brief silence ensued, which AL
bert broke.
"Come Alice, you've got something
on your mind. Out with it'll
listen"
And then Alice, in a smiling,
pleasing way, went on to tell her hus-
band that they ought to be laying up
Albert smiled in turn and asked
now such thing could be done when
it cost all he earned to live.
You earn three dollars and a half
q day." said Alice.
'FYes.n
"George Somers earns only three
dollars a day."
"YOu are right"
"And yet he lives comfortably, and
does not run in debt"
"But he is forced to deny himself
many little comforts which we en-
joy" ~ -,
"And the one great comfort which
we might enjoy we are throwing
away"
"How is that, Alice ?"
1.-THE comfort of little sum in the
bank, which we would see growing to-
wards the answering of future wants."
Albert could not, for the life of him,
see how it was to be done and Alice
feared that a lesson of empty words
might be wasted. She knew that his
needed SUBSTANTIAL prop.
Never, of his own accord would he
to save by Titles. He did
not estimate money in that way.
Had some kind fairy dropped into his
hand five-tWenty bond for five hun
dred dollars, he would put it away
gladly and with such uest egg in
the start, he might have sought to add
to the store. But he could see no hope
in dollar bill, and much less could
he discover the nucleus of a grand
saving in a fifty-cent scrip.
With Alice it was different. From !
her meager earnings as schOOl-teacher /
she had in less than five years, saved |
up three hundred dollars; and the first |
saving she had put by was a silver
dime. She knew what little by little |
could do, and she was determined to |
show it to her husband. She must be |
patient and persevering, and these |
qualities she possessed in an eminent |
degree. 1t was to be the grand un-
of the first years of her mar
ried life, and to do it she would bend |
every available energy. She planned |
that if possible she would get hold of |
that odd fifty cents every day; or, |
if she could not do that, she would do |
the best she could.
Generous, frank, loyal, loving, AL |
bert was an easy prey to the wiles of
q wife as loyal and loving as himself. |
He gave her money when she asked /
for it and she asked for it when she /
he had any to give.
And here let me say that Alice |
knew her husband would not run in /
debt. That was an evil they both ar
rayed themselves against in the out |
set. When Albert's purse was empty |
he bought nothing and when it was |
full he was apt to buy more than he /
needed. Alice knew all this and gov
erned herself accordingly.
81 think" said Alice, one evening, |
''that must fix over my old brown |
cashmere for winter. should like a |
new one but don't suppose you can
afford it."
Albert looked grieved. The idea
that he could not afford his wife new /
dress
But for such a one as she wanted it
would cost twenty-five or thirty dol
lars.
'If you want it, get it =" said Albert |
81 will let you have /
twenty dollars of this months pay,
and the balance you shall have next |
MONTH"
Alice got the thirty dollars, but did |
not get the new dress. By the outlay |
Of five dollars for new trimmings she /
contrived to fix over the brown cash |
mere, so that it looked every bit as
good as new one.
And so Alice worked. Sometimes |
she asked her husband for ten cents, |
sometimes for dollar, and sometimes |
for more and at the end of q year,
upon careful reckoning up she found /
that she had managed to get hold of |
rather more than fifty cents a day
but she had done 1t by denying her
self of many things, some of which |
were really needful.
The result of the first years efforts |
inspired Alice with new life and Wig
or. She had saved up one hundred /.
and fifty dollars and had invested it I
in government funds. Through the I
influence offs dear friend who was in /
q banking establishment, and to /
whom she had confided her secret, she /
was enabled to get the bonds at their
face value. r. u4
1t was only little at time, some |
times a very little-but even a penny |
dropped into the strong box was so |
much gained. Only little-but those
little multiplied by other Titles, grew |
amazingly. The husbandman who |