DR. FRANKLLNS WIFE.
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Franklin in his sketches of his life and habits
Telates the following anecdOte of his frugal wife
A woman could scarcely make prettier apology
for purchasing the first piece Of luxury.


1t was lucky for me that had one as much
disposed to industry and frugalhy as myself She
assisted me cheerfuIly in my business folding and
stiehing pamphlets, and tending shop, purchasing
old linen rags for making paper, &c. We kept
no idle servants; our table was plain and simple;
our furniture of the plainest sort. For instance
my breakfast for long time was bread and milk,
tno tea) and eat it out of twopenny porringer
with spoon; but mark how luxury will enter
families, and make progress in spite of Princi-
pie. Being called one morning to breakfast, l
found it in a China bowl, with spoon of silver.
They had been bought for me without my know
ledge by my wife, and cost the enormous sum of
three and twenty shillings, for she said that she
thought her husband deserved silver spoon and
China bOwl-as we'll as any of her neighbors
This was the first appearance OF plate or China
in our house. which afterwards, in the course of
years, as our wealth increased. augmented gradu-
ally to several hundred pounds in value"