If you only wanted heavy furniture, which would last for years, the plan would answer, but you want everything.

I believe the small conveniences you have on this list come to more money than the furniture and carpets." "Oh, yes," said I."We are not so very particular about furniture and carpets, but these little conveniences are the things that make housekeeping pleasant, and,--speaking from a common-sense point of view,--profitable." "That may be," he answered, "but I can't afford to make matters pleasant and profitable for you in that way.

Now, then, let us look at one or two particulars.

Here, on your list, is an ice-pick: twenty-five cents.
Now, if I buy that ice-pick and rent it to you at two and a-half cents a year, I shall not get my money back unless it lasts you ten years.

And even then, as it is not probable that I can sell that ice-pick after you have used it for ten years, I shall have made nothing at all by my bargain.