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A Virtue Needed In America

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
November
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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We Americana ure the most wasteful and extravagant people in the world. We waste fearfully io fod, in clothing, and in extras. We waste on every secular duy of the week, and waste a doublé amount on Sundays. Men wuste shamcfully, wonien shockingly, boys and girls, too, are permitted to waste wofully. Wastefulness is one of our worst uational vices; for if economv be a virtue, then extravagance must be a vice. The English don't wnste half as rauch as we do; the French not a quarter ; and, the Germans (while in Germuuy) dou't waste at all. Hundreds of leading hotels here and throughout the country, preparo daily from twenty to fifty different dishes for dinnor, and out of these from a half to two-thirda are vulgarly wistod. ïhus not ouly is í'ood wasted, but also labor at the saine time. In ontinai'v families unwholesomo meals of half a dozen diahes are gotten up, where a plain mcal woulil ut once be more econoirieul and whule sume. Wo gorge ourselvcs with great nuuibcrs of article! which are neither nutric'ous nor delicious, bnteimply cotly Men buy lour hats a year, where one ought to last them four years. T:iey throw aw:iy coats and pants when they are but littlo worse for woar ; aud in stead of havinp; t.heir shirts tncnded, and their stockiiitís darwed, thev purchase new ones, and Hing away tho old. Wonnen vvear very expensive arücles of dress wilhout wearinw t-iiera out ; aud, wo have heard, are iuclined to spcnd aud waste niuney and material without gtint, - New York Times. GiPMr, Swipes, I've just kicked your William out of doors." "'Weil', Mr. Sivingle, t's the first bill youve tootod tbis many a day."

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Old News
Michigan Argus