Annals of industry and genius . thus characteristically speaks oftheir domestic menage, We have an English pro-verb that says— He that would thriveMust ask his wife. It was fortunate for me that I had one as muchdisposed to industry and frugality as myself. Sheassisted me cheerfully in my business, folding andstitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing oldlinen rags for the paper-makers, &c. We kept noidle servants, our table was plain and simple, our fur-niture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfastwas for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and Iate it out of a twopenny earthen porri
Annals of industry and genius . thus characteristically speaks oftheir domestic menage, We have an English pro-verb that says— He that would thriveMust ask his wife. It was fortunate for me that I had one as muchdisposed to industry and frugality as myself. Sheassisted me cheerfully in my business, folding andstitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing oldlinen rags for the paper-makers, &c. We kept noidle servants, our table was plain and simple, our fur-niture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfastwas for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and Iate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with apewter spoon: but, mark how luxury will enterfamilies, and make a progress in spite of called one morning to breakfast, I found it ina China bowl, with a spoon of silver ! They hadbeen bought for me without my knowledge by mywife, and had cost her the enormous sum of twenty-three shillings, for which she had no other excuse orapology to make, but that she thought her husband 152 A WIFE S THE SILVER ISPOOS. deserved a silver spoon and China bowl as well asany of his neighbours. What woman will not pro-nounce Mistress Franklin justified in her deed ? POOR Richards maxims. 153 This (continues he) was the first appearance ofplate and china in our house, which afterwards, incourse of years, as our wealth increased, augmentedgradually to several hundred pounds in value. From this point of his history, Franklins careerin the pursuit of fortune and independence was (asis well known) eminently successful. Unceasingindustry, business-like habits, a large fund of dis-posable talent, general information and readiness inthe use of his pen, either for amusement or instruc-tion, gradually secured to him a large circle of friends,and raised him from poverty to afHuence. He en-gaged in literature, established a circulating library,the first ever known in America ; wrote a paper toadvocate a paper currency, and, in ]732, first pub-lished his celebrated Poor R
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