person who having fifty dollars to spend on the luxury of a journey feels the worth of every sixpence expended in a return of either advantage or enjoyment if any of my readers have chanced to hear a gentleman curse his tailor who has sent home at uie last moment some new exquisite articles of apparel for a journey when they were found to be a hair s too tight or loose or if they have assisted at the perplexed of a fine lady as to the colour and material of her new dresses and new hat and have witnessed her with and we invite them to peep into the dwelling of our young friends and witness the actual happiness a friend in from the and infinite ingenuity of the poor of the long wished for journey had been announced to uncle and they were entering upon about the when their father beginning as need was at the crown of his head exclaimed i declare i never told you my bad luck about my hat i laid it down by the door just for a minute last sabbath and our run off with it into a mud � it was the worse for wear before and it looks like all now let us look at it father said there are not many people that know you in new york and maybe we can smooth it up and make it do the hat was brought and examined and heads mournfully shaken over it no domestic process would make it decent and decency was to be attained suddenly remembered that during her only well week that spring she had bound some hats for mr the and was despatched to ascertain if her amounted to enough to pay for the re dressing of her father s hat could scarcely have returned quicker than did indeed her little seldom went on such pleasant errands everybody in the world is kind to us said as she re entered breathless mr has sent full pay for your work and says he ll dress father s hat over for nothing i m so glad for now you can get a new for your bonnet after all the necessaries are provided anybody but you would call that a necessary do look at this old � all c the poor rich man � tc out it has been turned and died and and now it is not fit to wear in � what will they say to it in new york we ll see how we come out father s sunday coat mast be turned the coat was turned and the girls ware delighted to see it look almost as well as new and even was satisfied to pay the hat money to sally the a long deliberation followed upon father s garments and they came to the conclusion they were quite too bad to be worn where father was not known and respected and to get new ones must give up buying a new cloak and make her old one do there is a lively pleasure in this making do that the rich know not of the cloak was turned and new and said considering what a pretty colour it was and how natural looked in it she did not know but what she liked it better than a new one and now after had and her five year old her dress was in order for the expedition � all b the on which s mind was still intent not but just left said she to after the last little debt for the was paid won t buy the that s certain though mr is selling off so cheap why can t you break into the fifty dollars i do hate to have you seen in new york with that old but i must � for i told harry i would not touch the fifty dollars till we started well give me the then s � friend in face brightened she had as a last resort to invest in the a certain precious quarter of a dollar which harry had given her ages and ages ago and which she had ever since worn a she left her sister abruptly and as she slid the coin from the dear little said she i suppose you will seem to other folks just like any other quarter and they will just pass you from hand to hand without thinking at all about you � how foolish i am � she dashed a tear from her eye � sha n t i love harry just as well and won t he love me just as well and i think of him more than ever now he has been so kind to without having this to me in mind of him this point settled to er own satisfaction she turned as usual to the bright side how lucky mr is selling off � i wonder what colour i had best would like brown it s so � but she so pretty in pink it takes off her pale look and casts such a rosy shadow on her cheek but i am afraid she will think pink too gay for her thus weighing utility and against taste and entered the shop and walking up to the counter in a glass case a pink and brown her own taste was gratified and s economy and preference of modest colours would be satisfied � in short it was all women will understand me just the thing she was satisfied delighted and had not the master of the shop kept her waiting five minutes she would have forgotten the value of that quarter tl t in addition to the must be paid but in e the poor man etc the feelings go many changes and when mr fuller said here is your may was standing with her back to the counter and looking at the quarter as 