The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-29
ECONOMY IN LITTLE THINGS.

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Suggestions for Both Young and Old
Often we fail to. take note of how
much can be accomplished through the
accumulation of pecuniary tribes saved
Wealth comes from careful savings
more than from large earnings. Alittle
iald by every year and put at interes,
soon counts up. A single deposit even
grows to handsome proportions. a
| gentleman at Taunton, Massachusetts.
has shown us q savings-bank book
which teaches lesson TO those who
despise the day of small things. A
deposit of twenty dollars, placed for
him by his grandfather in a SAVINGS.
bank at Newport, Rhode Island, in
| iosI-and afterward increased to thirty
dollars, by the addition of ten dollars.
IN lo32-amounted in 1874 to over four
hundred dollars. - - -
Our rising generation should be re-
minded that there is no virtue so easy
OF practice, and yet SO recklessly disre-
garded. as economy in little things.
STEADY. small savings grow into inde-
pendence so easily that it is more than
wonderful to hear persons who have
power to make them complain of how
hard the world goes with them. A
young fellow with a ten-cent cigar in
his mouth-some three of which he
VIII smoke in day-will unblushingly
say ne cannot make both ends meet.
any way he can manage, the while he
is pulling off in smoke the very means
through which he could be rich in this
worlds goods. ss
Samuel Lee, Professor of Hebrew at
the University of Cambridge, England.
was seventeen years of age before he
conceived the idea of learning foreign
language; out OF the scanty pittance Of
DIS weekly earnings as carpenter he
purchased book, and when this was
read he exchanged it for another, and
thus he advanced in knowledge. He
had not even the privilege of balancing
between reading and relaxation, but
was obliged to pass directly from bodily
fatigue to mental exertion During the
six years previous to his TWENTY tifth
year he omitted none of the hours usu-
ally appropriated to manual labor, and
ne retired to rest regularly at ten O. clock
IN the evening; and yet, at the age of
thirty-one years, he had actually learned
seceaateeu languaqest
This illustrates the value of spare
minutes. Many careless people waste
more time every day than is needed to
make them masters of a science, if well
used. Some great works have been
written in intervals of ten or f-teen
from regular employments.
Any young person who will ind an |
hour day for reading can easily ac-
qulre large learning. Try what you I
can do. Begin now. In after wears |
you will look back upon the task as the /
most pleasant and profitable Won ever
performed
Sir Ashley Cooper had. perhaps. the
largest income ever received by sur
geon IN England. 1t amounted in some
years to about $4,000. But only
through great hardships did he reach
this wonderful success When q stu
dent in the Edinburgh University, he
lived in very modest way in third
story room, at an expense of about a
iollar and half a week. The first wear
after he settled in London his whole
income amounted to only twenty-Jfve
lollars!
We are told that well-known Ameri-
AN professor once entertained Prof.
agassiz on dinner consisting of pota-
oes and salt. Three times week. for
many years, this custom had been kent
Up, whoever CHANGED to be present; and
he saving thus made had been Judi
lously invested in books, till the Pro-
essOr owned a magnificent library.
Ihe late Empress of Germany was
me OF the most simply-dresse of
women. except on occasions of cere-
nony. Her dry-goods bills are said to
ave been less than those of the wives
Il many merchants. She often drove
ut in calico dress. And vet she was
cry liberal in her gifts. The Princess
bismarck, fresh and comely. thonoh
carry seventy, superintends her farm.
FORK, goes about the house with great ,
nncn OF Keys at her girdle, watchful ,
I the family expenditures, and her
ouse filled with knitted quilts and such
Ike. the evidence of her skill and in |
ustry. IL
At Client, in Belgium, an experiment
as been made, which has been At /
ended, 1t is said. with very good re- ,
hits. A gentleman who felt deenlv !
oncerned at the large amount of money
tasted by children, and the careless
nprovident habits thus early aeouired !
y them went round to all the nnblic .
shools, and, after talking to the
,holars on the subject. made arrange
tents with the teachers to receive all
Re money which the children mioht he
filing to intrust to them.
When this reached a certain amount i
was deposited in one of the CITY
anks. When pupils savings had t
lus reach one franc (twenty cents), q
9 was to receive bank book, and be a
lowed three per cent interest by the b
ank OF Belgium. The plan has met n
18th entire success. The children a
DIV save their money instead of spend s
g 1T foolishly, and by the time thew Q
ave school have often a large sum +
herewith to enter into business. or i
rocure an outfit. 1t is well known a
lat it is not those who have the most t
oney who spend the most on candy. Il
lkes, peanuts, ETC., things which do NO
,od, and often cause positive injury to q
e health. Besides the money saved. 8
hich may be very useful in time of b
aeds the habits ofself-denial and econo- i,