| Show THE h MECHANiC HOME eq an evening in the early part 1 0 I the winter the th e door doorbell bell veil rang with ener energy jy and the servant irian irlan announced ad 1 a man who ho wished to se see e rne ine A man manis one thing with a servant a gentle man another and a person something dlf air ferent fromi either elther the man stood in n the hall bt but I 1 I 1 wondered weyhe why he bad had not been caled called a gentleman I 1 was wag puzzled where to place hi him m 0 myself anys elf hii his dress was very neat but plain and lather rather coarse his linen that badge of refinement was white in perfect order and almost elegant every thing about him seemed substantial but nothing gave a clue to his po in life in ill nil outward seeming lie he was simply a man when he spoke to me roe his sadness was simple simpie clear direct and with a certain ali air ot of belf self reliance the fuit furthest hest possible orom from a vulgar blusterer Docto Doctor rJ 1 sail he 1 ai I wish yoh you tb come and see my nay child we fear he is threatened with croup I 1 put on my hat hit and prepared to accompany him for if the case was as he supposed there ivas was no time cirii to lose in this disease a single hour nily may make a lifes dimaren difference i ce in a moment we were in the street and walking briskly up one of our avenues the chilade chi tahe lahe baid said had been playing out of doors had eaten heartily at supper gone to slee waked up a short cimei time lime ince nce nee very hoarse witha with a croaking cough the case wal wa i pretty cleer clear one and I 1 hurried my walk still more anu and in a few mo men ments ts we were at the door doof we went to the fourth story the list last flight of stairs was vas carpeted and a small lamp tit it the tor for lighted as 03 up an excellent ani and very durable kind of mai mat laya the doom door you will see in time why I 1 give these little particulars f 1 entered the opened door d or and nd mai wai vas wele welcomed ornic orric d bya bia by a rather pretty and remarkably tidy woman who could have been nobody in the world but bat the wife of the man who had summoned me 1191 1 I am glad you have coma come so soon she said in h a soft pure accent little william jeems seems so distressed that he can hardly breathe and the next moment as we passed through a narrow piss passage awre where re he hp lay I 1 heard the unmistakably brou py y sound that justly cardies carries such terrors to ta the parents heart t als Is atthe croup doctor asked tha th father with a voice of emotion as I 1 bent cider over th e chill afine boy three yearl years of aoe age age gilt it is certainly the croup I 1 said and a pretty violent attack ilow how long is i itsinie it since you haugh him sick tinb Not t above an hour was the he ca cagni m rep revly reply bookel y it was iza ida m ade e galin calm by bv firl firm elf self control contla I 1 looked at the mother she was very pale paie but did not abt trust herself to speak i s a then there is probably but little danger 1 I sa aid 0 ab bat ii we have something to do have you tb the e water r here herer the Ius lus husband band went to what seemed a closet opened two doors andi disclosed aneal pine bathing wilb wilfa the croton this thia was beyond in my h hopes e bu but t iliad I 1 had no time to wonder the liette little fellow v V was in in a high fever and tabor labor ing lor for foi every breath tain taking 9 him firo grom from elfis h ls little crib where he be lay upon a nice hair mattries mat triss fit for q a princeton prin prince ceto to sleep on I 1 took off his clean night clothes stood him in the washtub wash tub and made his father pour full upon ills lili neck and chest three pails of cold water while I 1 rubbed him briskly with my hand he was then than wiped dry and rubbed until his bis whole body hody was elow glow a alime then I 1 wrung wrung a large towel toyei opt af pf cold water and put it round his throat 1 arid and then wrapped him up in blankets the brave little fellow had borne it all without a 0 complaint as it he understood that under hi his 1 3 fathers eye no harm couii could come to him jn fifteen minutes after lie ha was wrapped in the blankets helas he was in a profuse pre in a sound slumber and breathing i freely the danger wa was s cimei over oyer so rapid is this disease and so easily cured i Hap nap happiness chappine pine had shed a serene light upon the countenance of the fat father herand and thrown over the mot mother herPs face a ato efow of beauty upon them and was i mor ethan ever eyer puzzled where to place them there was no marks of or high birth riot a shadow of decayed gentility about thern thein rather the rever reverse seas as inthey if they were working lna ina up from a low rank of life to a higher 1 I looked around the room it was wai wie the bedroom every thin in it was perfectly neat and or orderly deily the bed like the alie crib was excellent but not costly the white counterpane did not cost more than ten thi shillings llinas yet how beautiful it looked the white window curtains were shilling dint lint muslin but their folds hung bung as richly as if they were damask and how hov very appropriate they seemed the bath with its is snug folding doors I 1 knew had not cost niam herla berla bill and all more than ten dollars the toilet table 9 of r an n elegant form firm and completely covered I 1 had no doubt was white while pine and cost half a dollar dolla the pictures on the wall were beautifully tinted lithographs better belter far beiter better that oil paintings 11 I 1 have hive seen in n the houses of millionaires yet the they y can be bought at con Cou piPa pills or william 3 steven Stevens s for foz ahr three ee to five shilling and a dollar piece apiece a had bad framed them the floor had bad a carpet that seemed to match everything with its emall 0 o mali malt neat figure and a ll 11 light ight chamber color it ns was wag a jewel ora of a room in as p perfect keeping in 1 ai I tw pa ns as iran iyan IT an artist had designed it I 1 leaff leaving ngy the hie little boy to his untroubled sleep anu aaa L 1 giving tin lin directions for or his bash bath on his waking we ave went into the other room which wa differ but just ai neatly arranz aryl arya ned ld I 1 til ill it plight e app asp zed red for a a parlor anly it had bad a gook cook jn ftp ve oan jrsn studios pr pk a dining zoom join jorn roin it va ras hung bung with pictures heads pictures and 0 all such as a wan was of 1 na ei lei lel iti W rii III warr I 1 jl I 1 ran p ri 1 I 1 I 1 AW ia taste s t could ouid pe elect ec t and rig buy buchea uchea cheap util bill tit which c h jike dike bilte 9 good d 1 9 1 boots ris rig are I 1 i invaluable ny aguill T I 1 i t t 1 and n 6 speaking 1 a t ing r of f boo books there wak wai wasa a hanging hinging ha 1 ngin libian library tn one ne side of th chimney which a single glance assured me contained the very choicest of the tae Eng english liali lonebe e i the anan anin man went beni to 0 o a bureau opened a drawe drawer r anci ancl I 1 took out some money what is your fee doctor he asked holding the bills fio 90 as to 0 select i one lo 10 pay me ml now ow had made limmy mind before I 1 had got half wix wit way up stairs that I 1 might have to wil wait dt f eor for or cypa my pay yape perhaps ilia llla ps never get it but all ill ill til tin f Is s had chano changed ad I 1 could not as I 1 often do inquire into the circumstances of the Im man anand and graduate my price accordingly there he stood ready to pay me with mo money elough enough ei ough yet it wae WAS evident that he was a wor working ing man and far grom from wealthy th I 1 had not nothing fillig left but bui to name the lowest fee 1 one dollar does not seem enough said hezi hect you have saved sayed my childs life ilfe and have haye heen been at mere traube than I 1 to merely wr write a prescription do ido you yon work for a livings living I 1 asked bb hoping p ehg to solve the mystery you are a mechanic I 1 said willingto of him take that thit said he placing F jaein jacin g a i two dollar note in my hand blind with a not to be refused air S and I 1 will gratify your curiosity for there is in pretending ding that you are not a little cul cu cul 1 l rio ric 1 tug l 1 I 1 i there was a ll earty hearty respectful taul freedom about this that wi s ir I 1 put ut the note I 1 in in my pocket docket and the man going joing to a door opened mt ft t inta into a closet lof of moderate size and displayed display td the bench and tools ofa ora of a shoemaker you must roust be an extraordinary wol woi workman kr an 2 skid al d J 1 cookii looking ia 1 g around ground the room which seemed almost luau r ious rous but when I 1 looked at each gach item I 1 aund found that it cost very little 1 NO nothing extra 1 I I barely manage to earn a little over oer a dollar a day mary alary ipa me some som e with th the e house avak t to d do a and A our boy to look anter after she earns parris enoah enough h t to ma mak e our wages average eight d liars idars a week weik we began with bothin nothing we live as you see all this comfort this respectability this almost lu luxury x u ry I 1 for eight a dellara jag liars a week leek 1 I expressed my surprise 1 41 I should be ve very rj sorry if wi we spent so much sid asid he 1 I 1 we have not only aly managed to 0 o live on that but we have something laid up in the sav ings hank bank ii JV ill lil he goodness said 1 I just to explain p ij in to me how you dd for I 1 wai wal was really anxious lo 10 know how a shoemaker and ills his wife earning hat bat eight dollars dollar sfa s a mieki week could live in comfort and elegance and lay up mo mol j ney ne 1 with pleasure he lie replied nor f for 0 i vou 0 in may ay persuade others fiers of wa dio rio better off lih lid I 1 aeto ay to maka mak the best situation 1 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 lotka lolka took look a chair which handed to me ivye were dand his rifet wife after goi gol nuta nyta listen listel a moment to the so soft ft measured breathings breathing brea things i of little lV willie illie set down to her sev seeing i I 1 9 anty my name he said is I 1 william carter 4 my father died when I 1 wis wa a young youn gandI gandl and I 1 avils vas ai shoemaker with the usual provision of schooling 1 I 1 did as well weil as boys do gerie gerle generally rally raily at jahp ol 01 andi anai and I 1 was vei vel very y fond of reading I 1 made the most bil of my ry spare time lime and the advantages of the apprentices li arary probably the books that li help iad d moe me roe most were the sensible writings of W il fiarn cob gobi bett belt eido following v anghis hig his eh i mple 1 determined dete mined to 10 give my selfa useful education n and nd dhave td so some soma me extent but a 4 is a lifelong life long iong p process and the more 1 I 1 gearri uh ilia more I 1 see before me i n 1 I was handly hardly 1 out of my iny time jime me fellin love with there people think very vere irelta pretty but whom bihorn I 1 kiib kilb kriba to be very gond good ii 11 r 11 W r mary looked up with such a aright loving ovina a sime as to fully justify some people in th their eirno no tion i i i 1 when I 1 had been abne one year ear a journeyman man and had laid up a rew few dollars for I 1 had a strong motive to be savin saving baving gAvi gava we weri were married I 1 boarded at her het fathers and she sha bound shoes for the tho th shop where I 1 worked we lived a few weeks at her home but it was not our home the tha hoi hot home lome we wanted so we determined 1 ind to set sa up louse housekeeping it was fathera set up but we nude unde it answer I 1 spent a week inhouse in house hunt in ing some were too took dear some too shabby at last I 1 found this place it was new and clean high and airy and I 1 thought it would do 40 agot 1 got it for tor fifty dollars a yew year and though thou ali all the rents all round lvove hive addan advanced ceda bur landlord is satisfied with arith that or takes takei it in preference to risking a worse tenant the place i was naked if enough and we had little to put inot in it si save ve ourselves selves sUt but we ave ri went cheerfully to work ark barnes farnes earned all we could saved all we could and ind you se sem see the result 61 1 I see but I 1 confess I 1 do not understand it said 1 I willing willina to hear him explain the mhd economy of this modest and alid beautiful home wile I 1 well weli it is simple enough when many mary and I 1 moved ourselves here and took possession possess iori with a table I 1 two chairs 1 a cooking stove a 0 saucepan or two an and d a cot betl bell bed with a straw mat mattrass traca trasa the first thing we did dide was wis to hold a 1 council of war now mary alary my love said 1 I here we are we have bave next to nothing and ade ave we have every thing boget to yet ret and nobody but out selves to help heip ourselves i we awe found that we could earn ton ron an average ei eight ht dollars dollar sp week weed V we determined to irre live a as cheaply y as possie N elave save a au 01 av we could and make oura ourselves elves a home oun durrent Odi Our reni rent wasa dollar a ou our fuel leht ight wlter rent anda home ome oms litile itte atte a dollar moree more ave avo e allowed aaice dalae trl til maia maxa amount a M 0 un t for our clothing and a ild by buy 1 w in ing g the i best vi C things flings f and keeping f r 11 iii 3 atheni e lq H carefully at ti i fully li we dress well enough for ahat that even irly illy my wife wige is pati aflee with her wardrobe and an d finds that raws jaw silk 1 ilk lik it si gix six shillings shil linga a yard is cheaper in the long run than calico at oile one shilling that makes three dollars a a week 1 and we bad had still our jiving to pay for that costs us with three in in our bur lur family just on dollar a week more one dollar piece apiece a no one dollar for all you beem seem surprised 3 but bul we have reckoned it over and over it cost more at first tut but dut out now we have learned to live both better and ind cheaper so that we bave have a sur surplus pius plus of four dollars a week af ter paying all expense expense of rent fire light water clo cio illing and food I 1 do not count our luxuries r uch such as an evening at the theatre a concert or a little treat to our dur frends trends when we give a party I 1 knew a smile came over my face for for fur he con tinned yes gyes givia a party and we have some pleasant sant ones n s I 1 assure you sometimes we have havi a dozen dozed is quits quite enough fl for or comfort f 0 A ah and i our ofir treat of chocolate cakes blancmange etc costs as much as two dollars but this is not very often out of our surplus which co corbes comes ibes rhes you see hundred dollars a year we have bought all you see and have money in bank 41 apse it all ail said 1 I ail ali all allbut but the living many a mechanic spends more than that for cigars to say noth liquor pray tell me precisely how you live with wilh pleasure first of all then I 1 smoke no cigars and ana chew he 6 no tobacco and mary takes no r here heri the glea pleasant i sat smile cam came input there was no interruption for mary alary seemed ta to think lher ther husband hubband knew what ahat A hat he was about and could talk very well without her aid ald I 1 have nat not drank a glass of liquor since the day 1 I 1 was married except a aglais of wine about dour four times a year on christmas new years fourth of july ind and willies williea brith day thelast the last I 1 s gur ur specia Ll holiday hollday I 1 had read enough phy biology to make maie up my mind that tea and coffee contained no and are poisonous be side and I 1 tried a vegetable diet long enough to lik ilk like ilke e it better than a mixed one and to find that it agreed with me better and as we have read and experimented tp gether together of course mary rethinks thinks as I 1 do I 1 but what do you |
