HOUSE FURNISHING.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 1, Issue 7, 21 December 1842, Page 4

HOUSE FURNISHING.

An American writer has given some judicious remarks upon the subject, which apply to all classes.

“ If you are about to furnish a house, do not spend all your money, be it much or little. Do hot let the beauty of this thing, and the cheapness of that, tenrut you to buy unnecessary articles. Doctor Franklin’s maxim was a wise one, ‘Nothing if cheap that we do not want.” Buy merely enough to get along with at first. It is only by experience that you can tell what will be the wants of your family, If you spend all your money, you will find you have purchased many things you do not want, and have no means left to get many things which you do want. If you have enough, and more than enough, to get every tiling suitable to your situation,' do not think you must spend it all, merely because you happen to have it. Begin' humbly. As reaches increase, it is easy and pleasant to increase in comforts; but it is always painful and inconvenient to decrease. After ally these things are viewed in their proper light by the truly judicious and respectable. Neatness, tastefulness, and good sense may be shown in the management of a small household, and tire arrangement of a little furniture, as well as upon a larger scale; and these qualities are always praised, andalways treated with respect and attention. Ihe consideration which many purchase by living beyond their income, and of course living upon others, is not worth the trouble it costs. The glare there is this false and wicked parade, is deceptive;! it does not in fact procure a man valuable friends,or extensile influence.— P.Maqaz*

Sweeping the Streets by Machinery.— YTe have this wfc>k witnessed in Manchester the very streets swept by machinery. The machinery ui question is in the form of a cart, drawn by one horse, the motion of which impels a number of revolving brushes, which take up the dirt into the body of the cart ihe receiver upon tha same principle subs ituting brushes tor buckets, as u« dredging machine in our docks. —Liverpo , Paper.