The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-17
NECESSITY AND ECONOMY
BY HOPE EVERMORE.

BY HOPE EVERMORE.
IT is too often the case with
women as we'll as men that they
make little if any attempt to econo-
mize when they are in thriving
business and money is plenty with
which to supply their immediate
wants-that IS, they do not Study
hoao to econoDaise, that they may
save twenty-five per cent. here and
fifteen and twenty per cent. on
something else which they purchase
or consume, until stern Necessity,
the mother Of Economy as we'll as
Invention, meets them face TO face.
True, almost every family has some
idea of economy, vague and vision
airy though they sometimes are, and
generally result in paying the min
lister of the parish little or nothing ;
keeping ToMMIE and JIMMIE cut of
school and SAMSIIE out of college
which would fit them for greater
usefulness and success in life. and
KATIE from her music lessons,
while her talents plainly indicate
that in that she can attain eminent
success; depriving the tired and
overworked wife and mother of the
much longed-for visit ''home, (which
she so much needs to revive the
dropping spirits and tagging ener-
gies and for invigorating her entire
system; stopping the newspapers
and magazines which had been such
source of pleasure as we'll as in
struction and profit to all the family
leaving them, as it were, almost
cheerless without them. But with
stern Necessity as an incentive TO
gosd them on, they learn many a
useful lesson which is sometimes
worth almost a fortune to them
through life
Though little we dream it at the
time, Necessity is often a blessing
in disguise, the hand by which our
kind Father sends us greater good
and prosperity. Our after lives are
happier, our success brighter, our
achievements greater than they
ever could have been had not our
latent abilities been drawn out by
pressing want or some other sorrow
from which we had suffered. To
those of a cheerful disposition in
health, with full possession Of all
their faculties, it could hardly be
otherwise, especially with those
who: ever looking on the bright
side, remember that our Father does
not afflict us more than we are able
to bear, for out OF seeming evil he
produces good" and to ''every dark
cloud gives silver lining" Many
years ago the mother of a very
popular writer said 10 me that her
daughter 'Mary's early lessons Of
economy while we were very poor,
have helped her to write very
good story
Among my own acquaintance |
could cite many instances where
young ladies as well as young men
without friends that could help them,
have by their own exertions of body
and brain obtained, as it were, the
highest pinnacle of success in few
years, commanding remunerative
alaries, as the most efficient always
do. And yet they were not appar-
entity talented above ordinary
mortals, un'ess we except their un-
firing energy. On the other hand,
how often we see the really gifted
ones, -those whose talents, if
properly exerted, are capable of
shaking the world having all the
advantages which wealth and
friendly hands could obtain-glid-
ing through life at a mediocre's
pace and in a mediocre's groove,
accomplishing little in the world of
either good or i'll. Dear Rural
readers. let it never be said of one
of us that he or she has lived as
though Life was but an idle dream
but let us ever
Be up and doing,
ifb FL.