Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-08-09
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The salary OF one man, even with
much self-denial and great deal of the
bitterness of can't afford IL, scarcely
suffices to make both ends meet-while
the same amount in the hands of anoth-
er, with the same number to support,
suffices for all comforts, for some lux
uries, and now and then an outing.
Said a lady, not very long ago: ''Yes,
indeed, il there is one thing which /
really do understand, it is economy.
Why, my husband here will tell YOU
how admirably managed to get along
with only hundred and fifty dollars
month to live on, while l was out in
--(naming a very small town in the
far West), while he was away prospect
ing. | knew | was limited to that
amount, and made it do?" The lady
had no children, and in the little way
station she mentioned society could not
have been very exacting in the way of
dress and entertainment, and it is
scarcely surprising to know that she
''made it do" but she dwelt eloquently
upon the fact of her economies ION this
paltry thirty-seven dollars and some
odd cents week, you know" telling
how she converted barrels into ''lovely
chairs" and boxes into tables, etc., ETC.,
as 81 never could have done, you know,
but that there really was no society
there, and l had only my servant aud
myself to provide for, but l did sp.cn-
didly with what had, John, didn't I?"
and "John" assented with great cordial
ity to this, adding that "he did not be-
lievc any one could have gotten along
in that way save Carrie, here" He ev-
identity had not yet read the letters of
Jane Welsh Carlyle, which show how
she ''got along" on seven dollars a
week, cheerfully and brightly, too, dis
pensing cordial hospitality to friends,
with always tidbit for her rather ex-
acting liege lord, and always a morsel
for her little dog, keeping elfevenly
up to her social duties, and entertaining
at her board the very best and foremost
minds of that country and of others
her household expenses for a month not
equaling those of our little Western
economist for week. So, we find those
who can dress on tens better than others
who spend thousands; mistresses and
masters who will get more work out of
their assistants than others who not
only pay higher wages, but wear them
selves out in helping their help-and
finally, those who get more out of their
own existence, more sweetness, more
flavor, more actual accomplishment for
themselves and for others, though with
perhaps far less ''moneyed means" than
any of their acquaintance, being at the
same time more smiling and cheerful,
more light-hearted, more given to the
sunny side of things than hundreds of
others to whom smiles and cheeriness
seem to belong as by right. Is there
knack about it? Is it giftp Is it a
secret, belonging to the few, which no
money can buy and which no amount of
study can perfect one I'M? 1t seems to
be certain grasp of life which is not
in the power of ala quick compre-
hension of the much that can be done
with little-an insight into the abilities
of others, an intimate knowledge of the
true value of such things as time and
human capacity, which lend to the pos
SCISSOR of such knowledge rare individual
qualities which the world dubs talents,
or sets down as genuine genius.-New
Orleans Picayune.