Show A word to men of small means it a man has steady bu business and is receiving rec receiving eivin 9 wages it is his duty to lay up something out or of it it when one is ii le learning arnini a trade it is different but after he has got his bis trade or profession lias has fairly started and has plenty of work it is a great shame if lie does not get ahead in li his money a affairs fa wages may not be as high as they should employers may be grasping and grinding grin diug landlords ma may y be extortionate yet with good heridi health a sound constitution and a head of medium brainy bality a man mail hat has no business to be only as vell veil off offal atthe tile ID end d as the beginning of the year there are runy days ahead and cold storms in which he cannot work sick beds and unprofitable incur brances are yet to come we had occasion the other day to show allow how a machanic might spend a year without being liable to the charge of extravagance and that I 1 au sum in our good mayor says is as mach as our best mechanics get it would be quite as easy tu point out how a young merchant doctor or law lawyer yer will find it just as difficult to get tile the year on oil 1004 indeed until we get among those sal salaries arles which to us hardworking hard working scrupulously economical le al boien deem fabulous tile rate of living I 1 that seems almost necessary increases increases I 1 with every increase in e ef salary an economical man who spends just of an 80 salary sali iry will 6 be put ut to it to savo save a dollar when his generous employer raises it to 1000 the wings of his wants are growing while lie he rs sleeps leeps and on oil sit sundays fridays when his wages stop A and nd so if a young man with a small family saves nothing out of his small salary there is very verv little hope indeed that out of a large one he would save much I 1 A man must have the co operation of his wife or it would beus be as cheap for him to cease hom fi on trying before lie had begun and if he lias has no wife to cooperate co operate with it is almost as bad we have heard of bachelors who made money the thing has ciceu heau done we have seen such ourselves but it 13 h not the case with the most of them they generally eue rally spend more in beadi heading ug their lady friends here arid and there than it would cost to support a w wife ve handsomely and hether support herchold ren rell I 1 i they do not know how to save they pay for aboor a poor garment as much as a good oua one should h ive cost aud and a venial rent is rail ruinous lous to it they grow very mean where they should be liberal and beatt scatter er abundantly where it were to their credit to hold faist fast th thir their ir cuse is very desperate but they should not themselves despair de but when hou dumig iu agree to 10 save something they cannot help succeeding rev dr osgood in ill ois bis late thanksgiving sermon said that more than a fourth of a mans salary ought not to be paid for his house rent A ver vary y correct maxim we belile beli but it would fetch a great many men meil from irom their roomy parlors up to third story attics but what sense is there in paving half of ull all one makes for shelter from the weather I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 it Is a great shame that our benevolence has not yet devised houses which will accommodate us for a proper sum of money lot let the couple league then to get so a 0 mushroom much 1 room and no more as will furnish healthful and plea pleasant sain t quarters for themselves so far as they want to arrange for the reception tion of a few tried friends who move in tile the same circle as themselves or a I 1 humbler on one let them do lt it but by all means avoid I 1 the vulgarity of renting a parlor to en entertain people pleat at whose coming they tremble why should I 1 independent yankees fear to live only as they are a able ble tire friends that are worth saving will think none the less of one who takes such rooms as he can pay for only and as for those who think thin k otherwise their friendship is not worth so much as a sixpenny bundle of straw then as to dress it is great nonsense to say tatt all must dress fashionably ar lose caste what is IR the fashion who wears a fashions fas fashionable hiona j co coat at and how do you know it is the be fashion fhi oll tell of one substantial merchant one thrifty mechanic cli anic one successful lawyer or one gentleman n who wo wears it and we will narlie name ten tea of each ear h equally noted and successful who d do not arl and ter ten fops whom you utter utterly despise that do tile the the T I 1 le fashian in new york lor men just now re quirena qu iresa clean decent garment and no patches on it no more nor less A lady might wear lier her grandmothers shawl in broadway broadway and not be noticed the timid ones and those just in from other cities and villages alone are worried about looks when they wear weak last years bonnet to the lecture or to church let the young imitate the substantially rich and common sensible rather than those who are keeping up appearances at a sacrifice it will be saving in this ibern tn N Y times |