o deal for ready money only in all the departments of domestic
arrangement, is the truest economy. This truth cannot be repeated too
often.

991. The Truest Economy (2).

Ready money will always command the best and cheapest of every article
of consumption, if expended with judgment; and the dealer, who intends
to act fairly, will always prefer it.

992. Cash vs. Credit (1).

Trust not him who seems more anxious to give credit than to receive
cash.

993. Cash vs. Credit (2).

The former hopes to secure custom by having a hold upon you in his
books, and continues always to make up for his advance, either by an
advanced price, or an inferior article, whilst the latter knows that
your custom can only be secured by fair dealing.

994. Buy at Proper Seasons.

There is, likewise, another consideration, as far as economy is
concerned, which is not only to buy with ready money, but to buy at
proper seasons; for there is with every article a cheap season and a
dear one; and with none more than coals, insomuch that the master of a
family who fills his coal cellar in the middle of the summer, rather
than the beginning of the winter, will find it filled at far less
expense than it would otherwise cost him.

995. Waste.

It is now necessary to remind our readers that chimneys often smoke,
and that coals are often wasted by throwing too much fuel at once upon
a fire.

996. Preventing Waste.

To prove this it is only necessary to remove the superfluous coal from
the top of the grate, when the smoking instantly ceases; as to the
waste, that evidently proceeds from the injudicious use of the poker,
which not only throws a great portion of the small coals among the
cinders, but often extinguishes the fire it was intended to foster.

997. The "Parson's" or Front Fire Grate.

The construction of most of the grates of the present day tends very
much to a great consumption of fuel without a proportionate increase
in the heat of the room. The "Parson's" grate was suggested by the
late Mr. Mechi, of Tiptree Hall, Kelvedon, Essex, in order to obtain
increased heat from less fuel. Speaking of this grate, Mr. Mechi
says:

"The tested gain by the use of this grate is an increase of 15
degrees of temperature, with a saving of one-third in fuel. I
believe that there are several millions of grates on the wrong
principle, hurrying the hea