CHAPTER V.
IS IT ECONOMY?
THE "Experience" of my relative, Mr.John Jones, referred to in the preceding chapter, is given in what follows.

After reading it, we think that few young housekeepers will commit the folly of indulging to any very great extent in cheap furniture.
We had been married five years, and during the time had boarded for economy's sake.

But the addition of one after another to our family, admonished us that it was getting time to enlarge our borders; and so we were determined to go to housekeeping.

In matters of domestic economy both my wife and myself were a little "green," but I think that I was the greenest of the two.
To get a house was our first concern, and to select furniture was our next.

The house was found after two months' diligent search, and at the expense of a good deal of precious shoe leather.