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IT Smith loxEs, n. h
Ny wife had great notion ofnaking bar
gains She occasionally spends whole day
N shopping, Wien, to accommodates her, Ne
have M diuner at home. Edining duWa TOYS.
aud children being put bff with cold bit
The other day. WhensI returned TO supper,
after one Of these excursions, almost the Erst
words Mrs, Jones said, were,
sSuchluck as I've had to-day. Smith,
Do hurry and eat supper, that may show
you my bargains
Accordingly the purchases were produced
when the meal had been dispatched. aud the
children put 10 he'd This last procedure.
was not effected, however, without some Off
fculty. for the little ones had heard their
mother talking so much Of their new spring
dresses, that their curiosity vas all alive. and
Ael were eager 10 sit up bat the laws Of
the Modes and Persians were lss more in.
flexible than Mrs Jones J; and when. from
pleading the children proceeded to CRYING.
she whipped them all round, and then had
them carried struggling to bed
Here ssome wonderfully cheap chintz,
she said producing bit Of calico, its worth
shilling, every cent Of it. and I've known
the day when could not have bought it for
less than quarter of adollar what do YOU
think | paid for that 2
| was Incapable of answering. my business
not lying in that line, aud confessed as
much.
oh you men never know anything She
said WelkI paid eight cents fer It, enly
think Of it. and isn't ii pretty As she spoke,
she hcld.the pattern before her, smoothing
it carefully down with her hand
Next she exhibited some cashmere for the
boys jackets, aud drilling, for their panta,-
looms, all purchased marvellously cheap: and
finally took up a piece of de laine, as she
called it
There, now there's q bargain she said
proudly, unrolling the fabric i nevera in.
my life, saw anything as cheap as this Sev
enty five cents is what it cost to import this
article, SO the storekeeper said, yet got it
for-what do you think 2-now just guess for
once, Jones
"A dollar yard, ! suppose severed,
for that's about fair profit
Mrs. Jones lauged outright AT last she
spoke
No, bought that for thirty-seven and
half cents yard, and, as it was so cheap, |
took enough for myself as well as for the
children
But | thought | interposed, msekly,
that you had already bought your own dres-
ses'
so had she replied but this was so
cheap, you know aud then de lane dress
is always useful
4 don'tthink there's much saved then,
said |, bluntly by next spring your dress
will be out of fashion. SO that it will be
Aplete loss suppose it takes as much
stuff for you as for both the girls
Exa0ly'
|. She spoke shortly; but I went on
Then you might Just as well have bought
d laine ut set ! t. FIVE cents yard. Are
VA sure this s good Il lubks rsttssu4
DO you think | don't know bad de laine 2
she said. and she jerked the goods out Of my
hand, as ii | was unworthy to look upon it.
But its 10 use taleing to you, or showing
you my targains you always make fun Of
them, or tind fault
| saw that the patience Of Mrs Jones was
giving way. aud on reflection concluded that
had been too severe for her SO | said no
more But thought Of the miserable din
ner | had been forced to partake Of, down
town, ut cheap eating house; and Of the
children who, had gone crying to bed.
The next morning, Mrs Jones had fever,
caused by over exertion the day before She
had walked too FAR, he.doctor said and neg
lected to eat anything delicate woman,
be added, ought never to do either much
less both together.
Mrs. Jones was i'll for fortnight, and the
doctors bill was $40, SO that her great bar.
gains did not amount to much, especially as
a seamstress had to be hired, while my wife
was still sick, to take her part in making up
the children's clothes
Nor was this all The boosted de laine
proved, as I had feared, rotten. The FIRST
dress that gave way was one Of the children's,
for which the little creature received severe
.admonitnn and subsequently a whipping,
when she yeutured to lay the accident onathe
fim>y character of the stuff itself. But .
few days after Mrs Jones tore her own dress,
while engaged in smoothing it down in front,
So miserable was the material
The colors of the cheap calico proved bad
and the drilling turned out 10 be half cotton
Of all her purchases. the cashmere was the
ouly article il which she was not cheated,
and the reason was, suppose. that it was !
remnant
Before Supunfr came new dresses had To
be,purchased for both girls AID rev pair
of pantalaohs Il = ece for the boys tie other
ones rot being fit for Sunday wear.
| calculated. when all was over, that had
lost about S35. BY that one days shopping
Mrs Jones will not, however, admit this
her sickness, she says, would have happened
any how.
SO that my wife is incorrigible, fear, on
tne subject of BARGAINS.
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