Necessity Of Economy

Domestic economy should be a etudy in these times. Look over the prices of anieles used in a faniily and it will be seen that most of thom of them are enormously high, nor are they likely to be lovver for a long time to come. - Thero has been no suffering yet, for money has bean abundant, bul this cannot continue forever, and while the cost pf living will prob,ably increase the nest twelve months and ranch Ionger, the means of living will decrease. It is quito plain, thereforc, that if pronts of tradelall off and business diminish ee, there will eveutually be suifering and privation unless we resort to the Strictust eeonorny and frugality. This change of habita will be unavoidable; we shall deluy as long as posible, but necessity will compel retrenchment, fuid the sooner we look forward to that point, the wiser it will be in us. We have no doubt that euch a change wil] in the end prove benefioiul. The li'astbfulness, extravaganties, and excessen of the American people, in eating, drinking and dressing, have not had a parallel in the bistory of the world : and all tuis has been against health, happipew and moráis. When as a patiun ws tread in tho footsteps cif the old natlons, we huil have to l'ollow tliem also hs farnijies and individuii',3 If wo go, therefore, among the rural and laboring classes nf Swiizurland, France, Q-ennany, Sweden,and Russia, we :nay take lessons in our future modes of lifo. In heaitl) and vigor thoy are among the tirst people of the eartli, yet thur e.fpenditures are nothing in comparison to ours. Indee. the waste of ■ comrnon 4.merit:an town of ten th0U8Ld people would almost or quite support aH largo a population iu the rurul districts of Europe. Never shall we come to tho.ir level, for our country is new and differently situated, bnt the neït generation of Ameriptine cannot hope to live as we have, and there we couid taL:e lesops n economy that would bo very ueefu! tn us. We could discover - as we shall ba forced to by some means - that a family can be subsisted upon a very email portion of s'hnt Americnns nrp acouítomed t( expu ; nny, that tiiey can be fed on whnt is n.ow in rnany instapcps tbrowp out their back-doors to thp dogs. - Those of us who take thee jessuns m)f prnctioo npp.T them fjrst, wül be the