Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-04-27
MY SCISSORS.
BY FRANCIS D. GAGE.

Good morning. Mrs. Wicks,' hope 1
see you well this morning. I
Well, yes, pretty well, all but my
hands
Your hands! what is the matter with
your hands not been scalding them /
hope = a
NO! worse than that, have got them
all blistered up trying to cut out the chill
dren's fall clothes with my old scissors
I've had 'em these ten years, and they
are Just as dull as hoe, and every time L
cut roundabout. shirt. or pair of pants,
have Just such time oft. Susan Will
lard is sewing for me now. and l wanted
10 get my cutting done while my hand is
in. so just wanted to see if you would
lend me your nice tailor shears a day or
two for | won't do another thing with
mine Tor week to come
Really, Mrs. Wicks. should like to
accommodate you, but am very busy
with mine just now, cutting rags for my
carpet, and could not possibly spare them
without great Inconvenience a
We'll, don't know what I'll do;
can't cut out any more with mine, and
Susan has only two more weeks TO stay.
Do you know of any one who has good
pair % erEt ....-... err
No, don't. Would it not be better
for you to purchase a good pair ? /
| could hardly get along without mine a
single day without feeling the want of
them Eva. ef.-
What did yours cost?
Two dollars and a-half.'
Two dollars and a-half-goodness -
Mr. Wicks would no more let me have the
money to buy such pair of scissors than
he'd hy.' --.
oh, / think you are mistaken, have
always thought Mr.. Wicks was very indul-
gent.
That's where you are altogether mista-
ken. hardly ever ask him for money.
but what he says something to hurt my
feelings, and often do without things /
really need, rather than have any words
Why, yes, to-day 1 asked him for money
to get my fall trimmings for my bonnet
and Rosina's, and it was all could do to
get it out of him.
g How much did it require to ft your
bo nnets up for winter?
Only FIVE dollars; it would take ten
dollars you know to get US both new
ones; thought he need not have COM
p aimed at fixing up the old ones
= And you have i've dollars in your pos
ession-' d
Yes. and we thought We would get
the trimmings at Grants That beautiful
royal purple with orange edge, it's love
of a ribbon. and so cheap. only seventy
FIVE cents yard
MY dear Mrs. Wicks. let me give you
a new idea. Would your husband COM
plain if you should tiim your bonnets
with ribbon that cost only half that sum,
and appropriate the balance to the pur-
chase OF new pair OF scissors
No, of course he would not, but who.
I'd like to know is going to make them
selves the town talk for the sake of gra-
tifying husbands whims 9 ~,---.
Do it to CRAFTY yourself. to add to
your own comfort. Ny bonnet trim
mings and all viii not cost over one dol
lar and a-hslf, and l don't believe the
town will trouble itself one bit about it
Town talk or no talk you may be sure I'll
neTcr run about with my fingers in rags,
while I can save the price Of a pair OF
scissors in one bonnet trimming 9 Now
don't be offended, Mrs Wieks. / know
you really think you can't &c. along any
other way than Just as you do; but If you
will only make the effort TO economize in
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