Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-04-24
CHE farm and fiteside.
LITTLE SAYING. !.

A lady who canvassed for some article of
household use, found many ladies who would
have invested but for the hard fact that they
had not cent of money. 1t convinced
her more than evei, that it was good
thing to be able to earn ones own money.
Yet each of these women gave many more
hours day to her work than she did.
1t is not pleasant feeling any one knows,
for man, woman, or child to feel that there
is not cent in the pocket even when they
do not want to spend it. -
Some of our poor fellows in the hospital
during the war, asked for loan of a quarter
of one of the attendants. Kindly inquiring if
there was something he wished especially to
get, he was told there was not. Still press.
ing him little further, he admitted that "a
fellow felt so mean without cent in his
pocket" A noble hearted gentleman in
Philadelphia, sent them large package of
fractional currency to supply this want.
The children are often better supplied with
small change than their mothers. They
have their little savings banks, and delight
in adding dimes to their pennies. ......s
Nowit is just this system | want to urge on
their mothers When money comes into your
hands try and save outa little, if only dime,
and hide it away for emergencies" 1t will
soon multiply itself, and the feeling of self:
respect and satisfaction that the possesors of
such little reserve force will give, will be
worth more than anything the money can
buy. - sg.-a..a a,. .-- ..,, e-z. ..s."
A friend whose husband was "good pro
WIDER" once tossed over her Savings pocket
book" for me to count the contents, and |
found in ii. .seventy.fve dollars. Her family
had been we'll supplied with every comfort
and luxury. She was little surprised her
self to- see how the "littles" had accumlla.
ted. But if your possessions do not amount
to tithe of this sum, you will still feel COM
paratively "a person Of means" rather than
an absolute panper, as many high.spirited
women do who have to ask their husband
for every cent they spend Just when they
wished to use it. Try hard not to spend the
bottom dollar, but'keep it for q nest egg
AUNT ADDIE,in Indiana Farmer
WoMAN's WoRK. Rev. Thonas Beecher,
writing to the Christian Un;on Of their camp
life in the woods, gives the following advice
Call men ought to 60 to the woods and reig
iously do their washing and general work
such as sewing, cooking, housekeeping and
dish washing. The work Of women is not
spoken of sensibly by men until they have
done it themselves. Gentlemen readers, it's
easy to talk But just try it on a very mod
est scale once, and you will honor working
women more than ever. Doas have done
do wash of six pieces, then remember that a
women turns off two hundred pieces in day.
Look at your watch and see how long it takes
you Look at your soap, and see how much
you have used Look at your white clothes,
handkerchief or toweD and see what you have
done or not done, and never again speak
harshly of or to woman on wash day, nor Of
laundry work as if it were unskilled labor.
Try it. Don't talk. Don't sneer. Try it.
A sympathetic gentlemen having washed
two dozen pieces, will never change his shirt
again without glow of reverence and graf
itude. She did this A similar and saIuta-
ry consciousness will come to him who darns
his own socks, patches his trousers, splices'his
and washes dishes; Look not
every man upon his own things, but every
man also upon the work ofywoman. Such an
experience in the woods will GO far towards
settling the woman question, by teaching US
that we are all members one of another, and
there must be no ,schism." - s.r asl-aHf.
FERTILIZERS FOR HOUSE PLANTs.-When
a plant is in bad condition, it is mistake
to apply stimulating fertilizer. The causes
of i'll health are many, but the most general
one with those who had no experience in the
care of plants is, over-watering. Plants, to
live, must have water, therefore the more wa
ter the better, seems to be the reasoning, and
the consequence is starved, nearly leafess
sticks in pots of mud. In the majority of ca
ses Withholding the water is the one thing
needed; and with invalids, stimulating fertil-
izer is the one thing, ofall others, not needed.
When plants are in Aourshing conditionand
making growth, then fertilizers may be useful,
especially if the soil in the pots were original
ly rather poor. Any of the fertilizers used in
the garden would answer for plants in the
house, were it not necessary to avoid unpleas-
ant odors, and to consult neathess and ease of
application. For hard wooded, slow growing
plants, very fine bone-four of bone-sold
by seedsmen for the purpose, is perhaps the
best; a few teaspoonsfuls being forked into the
soil of the pot For softwooded growers, a
liquid fertilizer may be used. This may be
guano, teaspoonful to gallon Of water ;soot
two tablespoonfuls to a gallon, or the water
Of ammonia Qiquid hartsthorn) of the drug
stores, an ounce to the gallon. Water the
plants with either of these instead of clear
water, once or twice a week, as the condition
Of the plant requires. No invariable rule can
be given.-Amersca,s AgricuAurist