, 1879-11-08
JOHN PIOVGKMAN'S TALK;
PLAIN ADVICE FOR PLAIN PEOPLE
Bye. II. sPURGEoN.
spending.

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Spending.
To earn money Is easy compared With
spending it wei. anybody may dig up pota-
toes, but it Is not one woman IN ten that can
cook them. Men do not become rich by
what they get, but by what they save.
Many men who have money are as short Of
wit as hog is Of wool they are under the
years of discretion though they have turned
fortg, and make ducks and brakes of hundreds
as boys do of stones. What their fathers
got with the rake they throw away with the
shovel. After the miser comes the prod;gal.
Often men say of the spendthrift has father
was no mans friend but his own, and now
the son is no man enerly but his own the
fac. is, the old gentleman went to hell by
the lean road, and his son has made up his
mind to 20 there by the fat As soon as the
spendthrIft gets his estate it goes Ike lump
OF butter in q greybounds mouth. All hls
days are the first of April he would buy an
elephant at bargain, or thatch his house
with pancakes, nothing Is too foolish TO tickle
his fancy; his money burns holes an his pock
ct, a,.i he must squander 1t, always boas,lng
that his motto is, ''Spend, and God will
send" He will not stay till he has hiS sheep
before he shears them he forestalls his IN
come, draws upon his capital, and SO kills
which lays the golden eggs, and or es out,
s'Who would have thought 1t , He never
spares at the brim, but he means he says,
to save at the bottom He borrows at hlgh
interest of Rob'em CheateIn, and Sell EN-
up. and when he gets cleaned cut be lays it
all either upon the lawyers or else on the
bad times Times never We're good for lazy
prodigals, and if they wera good to them
they would be bad for all the wer besides
Why men should be in such hurry to make
themselves beggars is a mystery, but nova
DAYS, what with betting at horse-races, lazl-
nezz, and speculating, there seems to be
regular four horse coach running to Need
ham every day Ready money must be quite
a curiosity to some men, and yet they spend
ike lords They are gentlemen without
me&ns, which Is much the same as plum
padding without pllms.
Spending your money with many a guest,
EmptieS the harder, the cellar and chest.
II little gambling is thrown in with the
fast living. money melts Ike SNOWFALL in
an oven. 1 young gambler is sure to be an
old bcggar if he lives long enough.
The devil leads him by the nose,
Who the dice so often throws
There are more asses than those with four
legs | am sorry to say they are found
among working men as well as fine gentle
men. Fellows who have no estate but their
labor, and no family arms except those they
work with, will yet spend their little hard
earnings at the beer-shOp or In waste. No
h, tl HAY
90 to the Spotted Dog" or the Marquis
of CRANKY" TO contribute their share OF fools
pence towards keeping up the landlords red
face and round corporation. Drinking water
neither makes man sick nor in debt, nos
his wife widow, and yet some men hardly
know tie flavor of it hut beer, guZzled
down as 1t Is by many working n:an, :S
nothing bctte- than LI0wn RUN. Dull, dsJn-
iug bluckheais SIT on the ale bench and wash
out what little sense they ever had. How
ever, | bellerc that farming people are
deal better managers with their money than
I.oudOners are, Tor Though their money IS
very little. their families look nice and tidy
on Sundays True, the rent isn't SO bad IN
q yilIage as in the town, and there's bit OF
garden still, those Londoners earn deal OF
money, and they have many chances Of buy
ing IN 4 cheap market which the poor coun-
tryman has not /; and, on the whole, | think
It's very good management which keeps a
family going on ten shIlllngs a week Ill the
country. and bad management that can pay
lis way on five-and- twenty IN London Why,
some families are as merry as mice IN malt
on very small wageS, and others are as
wretched as rats in 4 trap on double the
amount Those who welr the shoe know
best where 1t p:nches, bnt economy IS tine
thing. and makes nInepence go further than
a shilling Some make soup out ot a flint,
and others can't get nourlshment out Of gravy
beef Some go 10 shop with as much Wit as
Samson had II both his shoulders, bat no
more they do not buy well they have not
sense to Law ont their money 10 advantage.
Buyers ought to have 4 hundred eyes, but
these have not even half enc. and they do
not Open that well was 1t sald that II fools
did not 90 to market bad wares would never
be sold They never get pennyworth for
their penny, and this often because they are
On the hunt for cheap things, and forget that
generally the cheapest is the dearest, and one
cannot buy good shilling 5 worth OF a bad
article. When there's five eggs penny,
four Of them are rotten. Poor men often buy
the nose for man who buys by the penny
worth keeps his own house ard another
mans. Why not get two or three weeks
supply at once, and so get 1t cheaper: Store
is no sore. People aIe often saving at the
wrong place, and spoil the ship for ha ? orth
OF tar others look after small savings and
forget greater things; they are peHnywlse
and pGund foolish they spare at the splgot,
and let I'll run away at the banghoie. Some
buy things they don't want, because they
are great bargains let me tell them that
what they do not want Is dear at d iarthing-
Fine dressing makes great hole IN poor peo-
o!e's means. Whatever does John Plough
man. and such as work hard for their daily
bread, want with silk and satins? Its like
a blacksm;th's wearing a white six apron
hate to see servant girl or labore-s
daughter tricked out as II sEe thought pec-
PIE would take her for lady. Why, every
body knows tadpole from tish, nobody
mistakes poppy for rose. Give me
woman in a nice neat dress, clean and suIta-
BE, and Tor beauty she viii beat the haShy
young hussies all 70 pieces II a girl has got
a few shllings TO spare, let her buy good
bit Of flannel for the winter, before she Is
tempted with bright looking but useless
tinery Buy what suits yourself 70 wear,
and If it does not suit other people TO look
at, let them shut their eyes. All women are
good-either for something or for nothing,
and their dress viii generally tell you which.
l suppose We all find the money goes quite
fast enough, but after all II vas made to elr-
culate, and there's nc use IN boarding IL IL
IS bad to see our money become a runaway
servant, and leave us, but it would be worse
TO have it stop with US and become Our mas
ter. We should try, as our minister says,
''to find the golden mean, and neither be
lavish nor stingy- He has his money best
spent who has the best wife. The husband
may earn money. but only the wife can save
it. "A wise woman buildeth her house, but
the foolish plncketh it down With her
hands" The wife it seems, according to
Solomon L. the huilder OF tie real puI!er