Don't Be Extravagant

If the poor house has any terrors for you, never buy what you don't need. Before you pay three cents for a jewsharp, my boy, ascertain wbcther you don't make just as unpleasant a noise by whistling, lor which nature fur nishes tho machinery. And bcfore you pay $75 for a coat, young man, fiud out whether your lady-love would not be just as glad to see you in one that would eost half the mouey. If ehe would not, lot her crack her own hazelnuts and buy her own clothcs. When you neo a man spending two or three dollars a week foolishly, the chan cea are Cve to one he'll live long enough to know how many cents there are in a dollar, and if he don't, he's pretty eure to berpeathe that privilege to his widov. Whcn a man aeks you to buy that for which you have no use, no matter how cheap t is, don't say yes until you nre sure ome one else wants it in udvanco. Money burns in some folks' pockets, and makes sueh a big hole that everything lhat is put in drops through, past iiudiug. " Nevcr becritical upon tho ladies," wns the noaxim of an old Irisb peer, remarkable (o his homnge to the sex ; " the only way in the world that a true gentleman ever will attempt to look at the faults of a pretty woiaan is to 8hut his eyes" Qreeley says tho opinión of " hardly any ono clasa aro moro important than those of tbe fools " lío onght to know - they are alwajs gotting his opinión.