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horse. From all these we coin money; it is not borrowing from 

 one to pay another. 



As I have before stated, Satan is telling our sons that if they 

 will partake of a tree in College, they need not work; they can 

 get their living by their wits. He is telling our daughters that it 

 is degrading to go into the kitchen and help their mothers do the 

 necessary work of the household, a work which God evidently 

 designed woman to perform, by adapting woman to the work, and 

 adapting the work for the woman. It is a most healthful work, a 

 constant change of position, just suited to a slender form and con- 

 stitution. To be sure, there is that eternal round of washing 

 dishes, and other things that was never intended for a stout, 

 robust man to do, and it is saddening to see this work so much 

 shunned by the average woman of to-day. " They toil not, neither 

 do they spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 

 one of these; " and it is believed by many that the thousand dol- 

 lar dresses and other things to match are causing much of the 

 financial trouble of the country. 



An honest, industrious farmer was once asked why he did not 

 succeed better in his business relations. He had always been a 

 hard working man. His reply was, " Wife, silk and satin ; hoy, 

 Greek and Latins 



In the large proportion of American homes there is an ever- 

 present need to study economy. We are not obliged to buy every 

 nice thing we see because others have them. We can look on 

 what others have. We could do no more if we owned them. If 

 the father carries his fair share of church expenses, and public 

 philanthropies; if the mother has all the help she needs about her 

 housework; if the children start in life with the best possible out- 

 fit as to mind and manners, there ought to be no question as to the 

 character of the personal indulgence which drains down the mod- 

 erate resources on which the education, the recreation, and the 

 charities of the whole family depend; and 1 think no one has a right 

 to sp'end money on his own undoing. I have known families go 

 without many of the necessaries of life nine months in the year in 

 order to save money to go to some fashionable watering place three 

 months in the year, when they were an hundred per cent, better 

 off at home. Some farmers spend too much time running to market. 

 A few dozen of eggs or some trifling thing is an excuse for a day's 

 journey to the city, when the expenses far exceed all they carry. 

 Th-e wear and tear of horses and wagons are considerable, to say 



