Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-12
OUT OF WORK.

OUT OF WORK.
This, to great many mechanics,
means out of money--out OF income
and yet. not out of credit, and so not
out of bread and tho real necessities of
home, and wardrobe and table.
There are values that have never been
minted, coined or stamped, and yet that
pass current as silver or gold where they
are best known and appreciated. The
word of many men will pass as current
in the market place or store as the cash
Of others, and is as sure rs the life of
the man, who would rather die than fail
to meet his promised obligations.
The man whose record on high, and
with his neighbors, is that he is truthful
and honest and upright, is never denied
the credit he needs in his extremitles,
and cannot know the want of bread for
himself and his in times like these.
To-day he wants margin of credit
with his butcher. grocer, and baker,
and his draft, payable as soon as an
honest heart and an industrious hand
can save the cash to meet it, is honored
everywhere as general rule, and
with the greatest pleasure, since it
brings real delight, oftentimes, to the
creditor to have an opportunity to ex-
press his unlimited confidence in his
long known, tried and highly appreciat-
ed customer.
Now the fact of such character pass
ing current as gold and filling up the
interim OF lack of labor in dull times
with supplies as abundant as when the
wheels of industry run merrily as mar
riage bell, begets n lack of conscious re-
cognition on the part of mans house
hold of the real facts as they exist, and
consequently much trouble ensues that
ought to be avoided-real heart trouble
to the father of q family, and often to
the mother, too, from the demands of
children that do not appreciate or con-
slider the times and the seasons, because
the home hopper continues to grind out
daily supplies as of old
The way, and the only way we know
of by which this trouble may be avoid
ed, is first to fully explain the facts of
the times and carefulness demanded to
ones dependents, and secondly, to car
ry out personally and by supervision of
daily expenses the economies that avoid
every unnecessary expenditure without
reference TO juvenile coverings or dicta-
ton.
In other words, it is especially noces-
sary at such times that the reins of fami-
ly government be held in tho hands of
parents, and that experience and dis
erection dictate the speed of expenses,
lest the journey from supply to want be
far too quickly accomplished.
Let the wardrobe of the family exhibit
the extra visit of the needle and polish
of the brush rather than the last cut of
fashion. Let superfuities be ignored.
Take good care of fire and gas and
odds and ends. Spend your evenings
at home, and the sunlight in saving or
gathering chance pennies that come to
every man of all-work, and the season
of leisure will pass away, freighten with
much of good cheer mingling with
anxieties, and the time of payday will
bring fullness of ability to meet your
sacred word of promise and to fully sus-
tain that which to you is your bank in
every time of need. The day will as
suredly return whose sunrise and sun
set will bring to the honest man in debt
the ability to pay, and consequent con-
seriousness of a manly recognition on
the part of neighbors that is of higher
value than bags of gold in possession,
with the conviction that all that was
noble and sublime in the angel part of
man was sacrificed in its attainment,
and that character and reputation must
kick the beam whenever gold, in pos
session, is placed in the opposite scale.
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