Year: 1865

The face. Taxing the country through,
hundred days labor in whatever ca
pacity win net buy so much food and
clothing since the war as il did beforei
and this state Of things must continue
until either we shall have paid off our
National debt, or until the progress of
invention or machinery shall have over
balanced that debt by making American
labor in the average eons,derably more
efficient than it was in 1860.


Such are the facts 10 be confronted:
Now for the course to be pursued By the
poor with reference thereto.


4. Waste Of time is form Of improsi-
dence common among the poor. Few
poor men could suppress amazement if
enabled % look back through the last ten
years and perceive the. number of days
through which they were idle when they
might and should have been at work.
Very many Of the poor have evineed no
foresight respecting and made no pro-
vision for work in inclement weather or
In case of sudden failure Of their cur
rent vocation. In cities and villages,
too many of them are always ready 10
unite in aSGikes," which secure them
anidIe spell to the certain detriment Of
their own and the public interest.
Some of them will even assault and
MAIN others who accept the work that
they persistently refuse. There is scarce
ly one able bodied poor man IN hun
dred who might not increase his earn
ings ten or twenty-five per cent By sim
ply resolving and planning that, come
what may, he will never loose q day
wherein he might usefully and gainfuliy
works f... f


5. Systematic frugality is not suffi-
eiently studded nor practiced by the
poor. Many live miserably who might
enjoy comforts if they knew bow to make
the best of their. means. At least one
quarter of the food of the poor in this
country Is wasted by bad cookery; yet
nothing is systematically done to make
the daughters Of the poor to-day better
cooks than their mothers. The food
| spoiled or thrown away by 9 hundred
poor families here would support hall
that number in comfort in France. How
to make a quarter of beef or carcass
of mutton supply the most palatAble
| nourishment 10 family, is Just what
every American girl should learn, yet
what not one in q hundred ever thinks
Of, and those who do are mainly of the
Weather class. The poor like the


rich) eat far more animal food than Il


good for them, and this 10 the most sx.


pensive of al food. We drink 3 sufh


cheney Of hot beverages, especially cof


fee, to corrode the gizzards Of million


ostriches, and then wonder that we are


50 often unwell. We ought to grow and


consume bushels of fruit around every


dwelling out Of the great cities; Jet w
have not even a grapevine by one house
; ID twenty Of the broad region where
grapes loxuriautly grow In short, WI
have not yet begun the study of system


attic household economy; and now W.


can no longer postpone it without seri


ous discomfort to millions. Letus della!


no further. bua z3aH rl 81 as 81
! 6. The poor men of this country, W


estimate, spead an average Of $50 eacl
/, per annum in pernicious luxuries-al
/. coholic liquors, tobacco, &c. SupposinI
|, them five millions in number, here ar,


one hundred millions of dollars squsn
, dered for what does them no good What
ever, but great deal Of harm; Will
r the time they lose by drinking and dis
! sipation is of at least equal value. Thi


is far more than all the burden cas-
D upon them by the great war. t.sf