Year: 1874

WHY DOME IEOPLE OOS i GEJ -aLONG
1t is a generally accepted fact among
political and social economists, that G
German or Frenchmfn will live com
fortably and lay up money and accumu
late property on rate of wages which
scarcely enables an Englishman or an
American to live from hand to mouth.


This native inprovidence on the part
of Americans we know is not confined
to the poor alone, but also devours the
resources of the middle, and sometimes
even Of the wealthiest class. And &c
cording to the Earl of Derby, who late
ly made speech before what is called
the Provident knowledge Society, in
England, it is the same there. RICH
and poor" said Lord Derby, "we are all
tarred with one brush; and I disclaim
the offensive and ungracious office of
lecturing only those who have very lit
tie to spare, on the duty of laying up
for the future, while the same duty is
notoriously neglected by many thous-
anGs in classes where its performance
WOulu Dt COlIpiid dtNSil Seo.'


In this disposition to be improvident,
and in the ignorance of what true econ
omy is, we have the germ of the wide
spread decentralization which is sweep
ing over the land But this germ
would not expand to such devastating
consequences were it not forced into
unnatural development by the vulgas
love of-display which is SO apt to &C.
company ignorance and disrelish of
economical principles. All these com
bined sap not only the resources but the
morals of the victims, and precipitate
them into social disgrace, as well as ii
nancial ruin, and not unfrequently land
the head of family in the Stateprison,
while his wife and children find refuge
in an almshouse.


In short, it is owing to their igno-
rance, inprovidence, and love of display
that some people don't get along.


GRANpMorHER.-A frivolous old age!
Can there be anything more dreadful !
The inability to please, with an unabat-
ed desire to do SO.


This was all expressed in a remark OF
a mother to her daughter when her hrst
child was born. "Never teach it to
call me grandmother" Oh how l
pity such a woman. Of all the lovely
titles in the English language, it seems
to me. that of "Grandmother is the
loveliest.


To have ones children's children at
our knee; TO tell them wonderful tales
of their parents childhood; to come be-
tween them and the harm of TOO much
governing, which has ruined quite as
many children as has too much lndul-
gence; to show yonr Jealous son or
daughter, by the light of experience,
that it is wisest sometimes not to see a
fault, which, if seen, must Immediately
be corrected; to teach them that rebuke
and punishment should both be reserv-
ed for great and grave occasions, and
that the continual dropping OF ''scold /.
ing" tor trifes is destruction to all good
government-thatf for the wearer Of q
dirty little shoe to forget to wipe it on
the door-mat, is not comparable to the
offence of telling n lie.


In short, that the surface faults of
most children will fall from off them
like the calyx from flowers, in the due
course Of nature, without any of that
irritating plucking and pulling which
jars the young plant, and harms Its
healtbful growth.


This | contend to be the delightful
mission of a sensible grandmother.
GRANDMOTHER Who but she knows
that there are times when child can
and ought to have reprieve OF an hour
from ''being put TO bed;" aud that al
ways, before a child is punished, you
should be sure to look and ascertain
that its ''tongue is not coated" or that
it had no appetite for its breakfast at
the breakfast hour, and needs slice of
bread and butter instead of "a whip
ping"


Grandmother, of all people. knows
that in our pellmell rush through life,
it is thus that we tranple down the lit
tie children, of whom the dear loving
Saviour said, "Suffer them to come un-