Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-02-15

envy her. and Miss Viney cast sig rui
ni6cant glance full into the face of her an
lcompanion. his
4 don't for one; but should like to
teach her that she is no better than the on
rest of the world s - en-
She don't profess to be; She visits the ing
neighborhood, and am sure there's no wo
better person in sickness than she is Blu
'All that may be- for
when you had the erysipelas, you qu
remember she watched you when no
one else would Blu
L know it; but is one to be tyranized {
over forever, because she watched his
few nights with me?' ey,
How strange you talk he
DO l? Didn't she buy that cloak on car
purpose to cut figure through the town COZ
and make every body feel cheap?' for
No, am sure she did not; she had beG
no such motive replied Miss Viney,
smartly. shi
4 don't believe it, therel' the
She is no such woman as thatp for
yes she is, just such woman as
thatl' fro
4 have seen no one but you who feels he
bad about it, of
But mel La sakel wouldn't have col
you think feel bad about it. She can wo
wear what she's mind to, for all me; da.
only | hope she can afford it, that's all.
4 think she can; she has the reputa- at
ton of being pretty careful woman sid
i don't care; but felt it my duty to the
warn my husband to look about his haC
debt. When things get to be so awful pla
extravagant, there's no knowing what has
may happen Ws
'Mr. Burton is doing good business ser
people say doz
Nobody knows anything about it the
what he is doing All l know is, that
when Squire Smith sold him two cords low
of wood last week, and carried IN the and
bill he couldn'tpay it. He actually put
the Squire off till next week. That ney
looks as though they could afford thirty 500
dollar cloaks, don't It, haC
With these sage reflections, Mrs. .
Maxwell turned down the lane that led pay
to her house, leaving Miss Viney to pur- :
sue her way, and ponder on the extrava-
gance of some folks. not
Mrs. Maxwell loved fine clothes quite bee
as much as any other woman of the {
century, and this is saying qui
great deal. But then her husband was
and though she loved brir
nice things very much, she loved mon &
ey more-which, we take it, amounts to his
nothing more or less than meanness. did
Mr. Waywall vae a Farr,ar onJ ,roII :
off in the world The T advent t"O of the the ma;
into his native town had turned Ar
things topsy-turvy in general, and the ~. IL
heads of women in particular-to use ueu Iee
Mr.. Waxwell's classical language ii", !
Time was when they were content to
wear a straw bonnet and a calico gown IIi uns
to meeting; but now they had to rig II
out in silks and satens, with flounces ,
and fur-belows and all sorts of rigging
attached to them, for all the world, Just ou'
like clown in the circus. Such were Pou
Mr.. WaxwelPs views of the social in 0ha
fuence of the railroad.
Society began to be little Select :.
folks put on airs, and were so stuck up -,
that you couldn't touch them with a ten Irli u.
foot pole. 'iu
Farmer Maxwell did not much like con
this state of things-it cost money on :.
the one hand, and he did not like to be ;
thrown in the shade on the other i"u
He was about the richest man in the \,
place; but ten dollar bonnets and thirty MI !,
dollar cloaks were denominations that he
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had not doubt but it would be unsur-
passed for two seasons, at least. When clal
Mrs. Burton came out with the thirty nus
dollar velvet, she found the wind was pas
taken out of her sail, and she was as strr
indignant as the case demanded. IN
Tn tho rico ond nroo-roso &c az -, yiel
L. .;roo ,ho -, of a. ,o;I-ooJ not
two new stores had gone into operation, aaiu
one of which was conducted by Mr.. DIS
Burton, an enterprising young man from :
the metropolis, who had brought city due
wife and great many: city notions into ten
the place with him. wife
AS with great many who go from stol
the city to the country, he was exceed
ingly annoyed by that disinterested
charitable attention to other peoples the
business, which so extensively prevails MN,
in many rural districts. He kept his af- .
fairs to himself, and this bothered and hou
perplexed the gossip. His wife had the
way of attending to her own concerns: den
she had been brought up where people \
do not even know their next door neigh OF
Dor. If she wanted new dress or Wa
new bonnet, she: never deemed it neces- nur
sary to consult the neighbors in regard mo-
to her ability to afford it, or about the Ned
style and material.
Poor Mrs. MAXWELL, her star began to exp
decline when Mrs. Burton came to the SIP,
village. She was no longer the1eader mu
of the toaOn, and her heart was bursting
with envy. Though she often received the
the kind Offices of the storekeeper's l
wife, both in sickness and in health, she han
would willingly have crushed her :