Litchfield enquirer., 1846-12-24


 that can't break me-"
 Mrs. Howard had not quite satisfied herself she hads sdone right, for as she walk. ed home she said,
 know some will call it useless ex travagance, but in the long run it is cheaper, you know as the clerk saih.- And besides, can soon save it in other things. l will manage without a new silk dress this winter, and my old bonnet rill do very we'll with little fresh trim. ing. Oh ! we shall not feel it by ing. ....-...
 he carpet was put down, and then
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 was indeed ths proudest day ot
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 sed Brussels carpet and she re-
 with considerable complacency
 IF superiority. It was her delight to ibit it to he. female friends. who, ac ] Lated by curiosity or envy, lost no time in calling to see her new treasure-and she especially enjoyed the triumph it af forded her over one or two, who hereto fore had surpassed her in their style of living.
 The carpet had been down about a month, when one evening Mrs. Howard said to her husband,
 Your mother was here today, my dear, and was in raptures with our new carpet. She says she never sa W anything half so handsome. But she thinks our chairs entirely too common for it, & cane bottomed chairs, with Brussels carpet, do look shabby, I confess. Don't you think so my dear ?'' "I am more than halfof your opinion, :" said her husband, "and thot so from the first. wonder what set of mahogany chairs would cost p
 don't know, indeed. A great deal of money, have no doubt. Mrs Stetson paid seven dollars piece for hers We must do without mahogany chairs till we get rich.'
 Though Mrs. Howard said this, it was with sigh. The conversation dropped, nor was this subject alluded to for sev. eral days. But whenever Mrs. Howard went into the parlor, she thought how great an improvement mahogany chairs would make-and though at first she re- pelled the idea of their purchase as too extravagant, she finally began to regard it with less aversion. One day, her hus- Oand came home
 "My dear." he said, saw set of mahogany chairs today at auction, and they sold very cheap, being bid off for less than four dollars piece. Ialmost wish ed you had been there, for if you had li- ked them, we could have got them at a bargain"
 "What pity !' said his wife, heaving Q profound sigh.
 From that day the desire of possessing a set of mahogany chairs became an en- crossing one with Mrs. Howard. Four dollars piece was so very cheap! If she could only obtain such bargain ?-- She attended all the sales, and visited ali the auction rooms aud at last found a set 10 suit her. On the day of the sale, she was there punctually; but another person seemed anxious 10 have the chairs, and so Mrs Howard was forced to pay five dollars piece tor them. ct is a little more than we thought of paying," she said, |" But they were very handsome, and such bargain !! Several were disappointed when tSey came and found the chairs sold. am sure could have sold the purchase at profit. But l don't regret the cost bit, since they look so beautiful"
 Harry, as the reader may have guess- ed, was of an easy, good natured dispo- sition, and willingly yielded to his wife's opinions. If he felt any misgivings at this departure from economy, they soon vanished like his wife's.
 The chairs were scarcely arranged in the parlors, before som me visitors sugges- ted how much new sofas would improve the rooms and so finally new sofas were bought. After this came mirrors and then pictures; for each new acquisition only made Mrs. Howard eager for more. The love of display now became ruling passion with her. Hitherto she had been very we'll contented with her old associates, who were generally people in her own rank in life but now, with the increased elegance of her house, she aspired after more fashionable acquain- tance. Visiting at their dwellings she saw furniture more elegant thanhers, and to rival them was continually adding some new articles 10 her own rooms: so thabSt length her parlors. once so plainly
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