Middletown transcript., 1898-01-15

keeps no accounts, who simply carries a.
bout with her a hazy recollection of
amounts spent and amounts saved, will
soon find herself involved in labyrinth of
perplexities. To recall with precision
every detail of ones shopping expeditions,
to balance outgo and income without some
simple system of bookkeeping, INVOLVES an
unnecessary degree of mental worry, and is
| an unwise waste of force. One need not
be an expert bookkeeper to set down every
week or every month, at the top of page,
the sums of money which she receives from
various sources-from her work if she be
in business, from her profession if she be
engaged in art or literature, from her
father or husband if she be simply lady
living at home. On the opposite page it is
very simple matter to jot down the bills
paid, the items at the several shops, the car
fares, the money given in subscriptions or
in charities. Anybody who understands the
first four rules of arithmetic can manage 80
small matter as the ordinary accou,dts of
an ordinary family, if she will only be
methodical, and adhere to her selected sys-
tenn, and observe a certain periodicity
about the work, as, for instance, never let
ting to-day's burdens slip away upon to-
morrow, and never leaving an unexplained
deficiency, no matter how small it is, until
it is satisfactorily accounted for
No greater check on spendthrift habits
can be found than that which inheres in
the conscientious keeping of accounts. The
trifies run away with large sums, and un-
til we really begin to watch with vigilance
we do not realize how the nickels and
dimes and the quarters aggregate into the
dollars. One buys few superfuities, ribbons,
bon-bons, needles, perfumery small luxuries
which could be done without, and at the
end of the week one finds the purse fiat and
thin, and in a state of pitiful emptiness
when il should be plethoric.
Nobody should encourage sordidness or
strong story of the two Nawns in 1.-THE Red
Bridge Neighborhood" is a thrilling object
lesson against miserlines as q contemplate
vice, hideous in its effects on character,
whitening to all domestic happiness. No
body wishes to emulate Mr.. Nawn, and
everybody commiserates' the Olives to
whom it is appointed to liYe with niggardly
souls like those the Nawns, father and son,
both had-poor, starved and forlorn souls
enough. But thrift, frugality, sensible
economy, a sagacious forehandedness, are
most praiseworthy and eltogeth er desira-
BILE virtues, and they may easily be lovable
ones too.
A person who is worried and harassed
and torn in pieces by anxiety over money,
a person who drifts into debt and cannot
free herself from its tolls, can hardly be
amiable or agreeable, for she is so unsatis-
factory to her own ideal, SO beneath it, so
exasperated by the conditions of her life,
that she cannot help visiting her own
faults on the heads of her relatives.
Be convinced, as you will if you once
make the attempt that you can keep
accounts as well as another, and the COM
fort of it will appeal to you. If practica-
BILE open a small account in a bank, and
settle all bills by check; the check when re-
turned to you, is receipt and the needful
care about the management of your money
is a good discipline, for bank-account
cannot be managed in fast loose manner,
but must be accurate and systematic.
Should it become your duty at any time
to act as treasurer of the funds of others, of
society or hospital for instance, either
temporarily or permanently, the care you
take in, keeping your personal accounts
should be greatly increased, Absolute hon
esty in treasurer is prerequisite to fitness
for office, and, beyond this, an unerring
and scrupulous nicely in taking care Of
the accounts is essential.-HaIper's Bazaar.
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CLEVER MISS.
Women are notoriously bad shots, In
West Australia mine managers wife was
christening an engine and had to throw
champagne bottle att. 1t wss somewhat
larger than the proverbial haystack and she
was only couple of yards from it. yet she
cleverly managed to miss it and hit her
hubby-a portly person, knocking him in
to cistern ten feet deep and badly hurting
HIN.
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LIKE A BOY.
The son ofa down town merchant was
found crying when his father returned
home last night, as that gentleman told
reporter this morning
whats the matter, Tommy" asked the
merchant.
81 had fight with Charlie was the
fearful reply.
"well, you ought not to fight. 1t served
you right to get whipped, I guess said
the father.
But I didn't get licked. I licked him.
sobbed the boy.
well, what are you crying about then2s
Why, if ! had let him lick me, he
couldn't hurt. And never thonght about
that, SO now | have to fight his big brother.
about my size, and can lick him and Pm
going to, because Pm mad at him. Then
I've got to fight the bippesf brafhor and