The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-15
About Earning Money
fHarpelfs Young People. Z

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Some Of the boys hsTe written to the post
mistress sskinC her 20 tell them how they
nay cam little money during vacation.
One brigbt-eyed little rnan--Georgs r. Jun g,
is his name-has solved the problem for him.
cell. He hGs best called Pocahontas, sld
IS hrs home is near faYorite summer resort,
visited during the season by numbers OF
people from the city, he rows passengers
EcToss a certain little stream at FIVE cents 6
trip. lie intends to buy pony with his
money Yhen he shall have earned enough to
pay for one. l will not tell you where
George lives, Tut it is not at sl improbable
that among my young friends there may be
a hAlf-dczen who, before vacation is over.
may take 8 sest in the pretty Pocahontas,
and have my brave little laddie for their fer
lyman.
Another boy Of my acquaintance, who ex-
pected 8 year or two ago to spend his vscs-
tion wholly in town, asked his fathers per-
mission 70 learn something about business
life IN the ten weeks before school should re-
open. He sought and found a place in an
office, and pleased his employers so we'll by
bis prOmptness and Intelligence that when
he had been graduated they at once gave
him a permanent situation.
But want TO fell you about Hal w. and
his sister Bessie. They wanted ever so much
to go 10 the mountains this summer, and
weeks ago they asked their mother if she
would give her consent. She shook her
head rather sadly.
"Wtere is the money to come from, my
desrsi"
Bessie knew, ii Hal did not, that there was
no money to spare. Mrs. w. paints pictures,
and is sometimes paid very well for them,
end sometimes, alssl the pictures do not find
purchasers.
off you and Bessie can manage to earn
enough 20 pay your own expenses, you may
go 10 Wildrose-viile In August" said the
mother.
Now some children would have sad,
whats the use Of trying2" Not so Bessie
sns Hal, who are young Americans, and
have plenty of pluck and persistence. They
shook all the pennies out of their 81 7ings
| bank and counted them, and added 70 their
sum several silver pieces which bad been
given them about the Fourth of July by IN
cles and COUSINS to invest in torpedoea. They
had not wasted a penny on torpedoes, snd
| when they footed their wealth It amounted
| 10 three dollars. With this Bessie bought a
| good many yards of strong brown ginghsm
Of a cloce checked pattern. After she
| brought it home you might have heard a
sewing machine singing merry tune. As
| its little peedle few up and down the seams
it seemed to say, with It's QUICK click, click
clic.;,
IIsl and Bess are go'ug, guess
| Up the beautiful mountains,
Where the s',eamlets fow, where the green ierss
In the spray of the snow y fountains.
Hal and Bess. they meau, I guess,
| Although IL IS very iuuny,
1 y ON 3 rrNrn or dav
| With their own bright golden money.
see that you are puzzling your brains
over the wonder Whist my dark-eyed Bessie
wss making, while Hal danced Jig as each
| finished thing was neatly folded snd lsid
away in 8 aat basket. AS you never vii
frd out, I will tell you She made dozen
| aprons such as working men wear to protect
| u cir clothing from soil and dust, end when
they were done Hsl took the basket on hi:
aim, and went TO great building, where hs
saw men employed, some in ono Esy and
! some in another, and there be offered tbs
| aprons for sale. He asked a quarter o.
cellar apiece for them, and no sold the dozen
IN an hour. Bessie went on Masking and Els
| went on selling these Useful aprons % mon
| who were glad OF the chance TO buy them
Until they had disposed OF no less thsn two
hundred.
Another girl who wanted money, not fol
herself, but for charity, to bestow on some
poor children who were in grest need, went
every day for a month to read the newspa
| per and the Bible TO an ole
lady whoae eyes were failing, but WIN
wanted TO hear the Psalms and chapters she
loved, and slso to know VIVA. was going on il
the world. The lady paid her literally fol
her trouble.
There is q boy who writes wonderfully
| good clear hsnd, almost equal to engraving
His name is Ambrose. Ee Is in reques
among the ladies who know him, to writ'
their names on their visiting cards.
Other boys earn money with their rrint-
ing presses, or by wedding in the neighbors
gardens, going errands, or lending q hand
| generally.
| If you wish to be ofuse, you must keep or
| the lockout IN your own neighborhood
Above all things, be punctCal, steady anC
honest, showing that you ere worthy o
trust.
Honor to willing workersi Though / say
this, do not want any of my boys and girl
to think that in itself the pursuit of money
is very grand or noble thing. Fern it fol
a purpose, and iet that purpose be unselfsh
Professor Agsssiz once said, when urged Il
lay aside his scientific pursuits and engage il
lectuTing, SO that he might secure a fortune
81 have no time TO make money" Every
body horored him for feeling that his life
work was above mere gain or less.
Kate Greenaway.
Margaret sydney, in Wide Awake.I
In London, big and smoky, with its dan
colofed fog wreaths, lives and works Kate
Greenawsy, the artist whose pictures have
made the whole world that lies akin 10 the
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