Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1887 — Ono Sort of Neighbor. [ARTICLE]

Ono Sort of Neighbor.

The crv Ol Chicago’s Sheriff seems to be, “I’m sick; send for McGarigle.’ Ths reduction in the public debt during July amounted to $4,844,894. The total debt, less cash in ' the treasury, is $1,274,583,842. and of thia amount $1,606,600,332 is interest-bearing. The total net Cash in the treasury is $45,688,--594, or about CW millions more than a month ago.

•Good Cheer. There are emergencies when it seems necessary to trouble a heighbor to lend the lacking convenience, but such occasions should be aS rare as good management can make them. A loose habit of forgetting to keep the kitchen supplied favors the practice of running next door or across the street to borrow a cup of sugar, an ounce of tea,.4fcloaf of brefei, a cake of soap, of whatever the need may be; but such » practice stamps the mistress of the house as a slovenly, improvident housekeeper, whose careless ways stand in strenuous need of reform. Perhaps it is only thoughtlessness in many cases that allows such ill-management and tlw fault when discovered will be reformed. A kitchen slate hung conspicuously on the wall, with pencil attached will be a great factor in working a reform. Let the house keeper write down each article as its want is discovered, and let her also put down such things as she finds herself nearly out of, not waiting to actually see the bottom of the barrel or box before making a note of their emptiness. Then teach whoevei it is who visits the store to always study the slate before going out. In this way, without much trouble to any one, the foolish system of running out to borrow will soon pass out of existence, and the neighbors with whom the friendly exchanges have been made will in time earn to feel backward about borrowing from those who never borrow from them. _ —j -