Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-17
customers would give me chance to do

said Mrs. Newton. Hereafter. what
ever articles shall be purchased of YOU
shall be paid for on the spot, and shall
expect you to sell them as reasonably as
you can.
This arrangement was also made with
the others, who, it is scarcely needfuI to
say, were glad to enter into the arrange
ment. Ready money is a great support
er OF trade, and cash customer is
worth two who purchase on credit.
Fortunately, Mrs. Newton had small
supply OF money by her, which lasted
till the first monthly installment from
Ter husband became due. Thus she
was enabled to carry out her cash plan
from the beginning.
Another plan which occurred t6her as
likely to save expense was to purchase
articles In large quantities. She had
soon saved enough from the money al
lowed to do this. For example, instead
of buying sugar few pounds at time,
she purchased a barrel, and so succeeded
In saving q cent or more on pound.
This, perhaps, amounted to but trife
In the course of year, but the same
system carried out in regard to other
things yielded result which was by no
| means trlfie.
There are other ways in which care.
full housekeeper is able to limit expenses
which Mrs. Newton did not overlook.
With an object in view, she was al
ways on the lookout to prevent waste, to
| get the full value of whatever was ex-
pended. The result was beyond her an
ticipations.
At the close Of the year, on examining
her bank-book-for she had regularly
deposited whatever money she had not
occasion to use in one of the institutions
she found that she had $3.50, besides
reimbursing herself for the money dur
ing the first month, and having enough
to last the other.
"Well, Elizabeth, have you kept
within your allowance ?" asked her hus-
band at that time. 81 guess you have
not found it so easy to save as you
thought for"
81 have something, however" said
his wife. Chow is it with you?"
"That's more than I can say. How
ever, L have not exceeded nv income,
| that's one good thing We have lived
| fully as we'll as last year, and don't
| know but better than when we spent
$500"
cts knack, Ezra" said his wife,
smiling. She was not inclined to men
ton how much she had saved. She
wanted, sometime or other, to surprise
him when it would be service.
'She may possibly have saved up
$25," thought Mr.. Newton, "or some
trifie. and So dismissed the matter from
his mind.
At the end the second year Mrs. New
tons savings, including the interest,
amounted to $3.50, and she began to feel
quite rich
Her husband did not think to inquire
how much she had saved, supposing as
before that it could be but very little.
However, he had piece of good news
to communicate. His salary had been
raised from 81, 900 to 200.
He added; "As I before allowed
you one-half of my income for house
hold expenses, it is no more than fair
should do so now. That will give you
better chance to save part of it than be-
FORE"
AS before, Mrs. Newton merely said
that she had saved something, without
specifying the amount.
Her allowance was increased to 5000,
but her expenses were not proportion
ately increased at all, so that her say
ings for the third year swelled the aggre-
gate sum In the savings bank to $500. Z
MIR. Newton, on the contrary, In spite
of his increased salary, was no better off
at the end of his third year than before.
His expenses had increased by 500,
though he would have found it difficult
to tell in what way his comfort or happi-
ness had been increased thereby.
to his own affairs, Mr.. Newton was an
excellent man in regard to his business,
and his services were valuable to his
employers. They accordingly increased
his salary from time to time, till it
reached 800. He had steadily pre-
served the custom OF assigning one-half
to his wife, as heretofore, and this had
become such habit that he never
thought to inquire whether she found it
necessary to employ the whole or not.
Thus ten years rolled away. During
all this time Newton lived in the same
hired house, for which he had paid an
annual rent of $3.50. Latterly, how
ever, he has become dissatisfied with it.
1t has passed into the hands of new
landlord. who was not disposed to keep
it in the repair which he considered de-
sirable.
About this time block of excellent
houses was erected by capitalist, who
designed to sell them or let them rs he
might have an opportunity. They were
modern and much better arranged than
the one in which Mr.. Newton now
lived, and he felt a strong desire to move
into one Of them. He mentioned it to
| his wife onemCrning.
"What's the. rent ?" inquired she
s'Two hundred and twenty-five for
corner house 5000 for either Of the 9TH
ers."
''The corner house would be prefera-
BILE, on account of the side windows"
eyes, and they have q large yard be-
sides. I think we had better rent one
of them. 1 guess I'll engage one of
them to-day; you know our year Is out
next week"
ssPlease wait till tomorrow, before
engaging one."
For what reason? ,"
81 should like to examine the house %