The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-09
TEACHING YOUNG PEOPLE THR
PROPER USE OF MONEY.

II is, in my opinion, not very far
from a crime to bring children up and
launch them upon life in abs 1lute ig-
norance Of the best way to use money.
During my business career l have seen
many children grow up and begin the
world for themselves. / have always
noticed that the child that was taught
he the proper use of money was much
more likely to have a prosperous after
career than n who had to learn the
Lesson by sad experience. 1t has been
SAID that no man could accumulate q
fortune until he had failed once in
business I am wi ling to advocate
chat theory in the case Of young peo-
lie who have not been taught the
proper use Of money. We had in the
community a family we'll off for tn 9
worlds goods and fortunate in the fact
hat the parents yer exceedingly
. aGtics' and ser sible persons There
we're half a dCz3n children, and when
tn y arrived at a certain ege, each was
C lied upon to manage a certain por-
CIOn OF the business OF the place. There
we're no fuss or feathers about it. The
parents simply directed them to 90
this, tina and the other, as the case
might be. When the Oldest daughter
Was sixteen, she did all the marketing
tor the house, and did it q lite as well
"a her mother, unless there was come
thing uuusUel to be selected. When
the soa reached the age of eighteen h.s
ness commission, which he executed
go the satisfaction Of his employer and
the disbursement of the entire COM
muuiCy The mex daughter conduc
{ d a gre' nh0use. she began when
eight years old with four sashes rugged
nver a cellar widow, where the heat
fron the furnace KEPT the atmosphere
40 re FREE ziog point. Here she raised
vIolets and other cold sir plants, and
became familiar with the theory and
prac Ic9 OF the cold frame. As twelve
years Of age she was receiving a small
sure income from from hot bees
which h managed herself, with the
assistance OF a m IN to do the heavy
work The mex daughter had a poul
Try business-snall, but practical-and
the son next in order raised pigeons,
aud his Fquab money more than kept
nIm in clothing, books and toys over
and above expenses, and LETT q trif9
for the g vIngs bank, which all of the
children visited every week. The
youngest y hen be was ten years old
cou'd tell you the name and value of
every p'gaon known to ordinary fan
GERS. He knew TO an ounce what a
quad would weigh as son as he
picked iJ up, aud what is cost to keep
1t until it became a pigeon. He
bought his own stock and found Gus.
tomers for his own products, bought
h g food and oihsr supplies and paid
hts bills.
An of the children have their own
ledger ard account books and knew
precisely what they were for. II is
needless to cay that none of these chill
dren fund il necessary to fail in bust
ne- ! either once or t vice before accu-
mulstlng a competence. They are
now among our most solid citizops,
and such a hing as a failure has never
Ceen recorded against that family. all
nF "h.n. 1N~s-Aa - ~l@1 z~-R--~
q laln5ancs with business and their
KnoWIfdRe, from their early childhood,
IT the uses and value of money.-Mrs.
N. 8 S.owell, in Ledger Monthly.