Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-02-05

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TO think of wearing the same dress TO church
Sunday after Sunday ~ exclaimed Mrs. Bradley, a
young married lady TO Mrs. Green, her mother
"Why not Sarah 7"
Folks will think it is the only one have which
is fit to wear TO meeting"
1T is, isn't itr
II know 1t, but don't about all the world
knowing it. ta9. is
You would not make all the world believe that
which is not true would your s,.
Els az don't care I mean TO have new silk inn
mcdiatey." M 4. A
But Sarah, your husband cannot afford it.n
"Yes, he can; at least curtai ex-
t penses in something else" s.sas Raa ADA
t}, .f "Whatpn ea 81
"Weli I don't know; could make pro-
d. vision bill less"
Mrs. Green shook her head.
81 don't think there is any need Of our having
!. beefsteaks and muon-chops every morning for
. breakfast. We never had such things at home,
you know. would not give straw to have meat
for breakfast rsf ftyE
aBut James depends upon it, 1sl
/" know it yet, for the sake of letting me ap-
pear little better on Sunday, he would willingly
s7. would you be willing to ask him the ques,
eyes why not'a II
.na 'You would ask him to 60 without his break
fast, in order that you may have an extra silk
dress ~ ssf
.. VIZ Go without his breakfast motherl / never
thought of such thing said Mrs. Bradley with
disturbed look.g rNt 2iA
s. q But you know it amounts to the same thing
@ to him. He was brought up in the country, where
he had meat for breakfast, and he does not think
e .afs he could make meal without Il" - M
-g a' We will not Say anything more about that
Them replied the young wife, who, beg the
reader to believe, would not willingly have de-
prived her husband of any real comfort. " How
S Rsr S gss g nsM almost
every Sunday. She must have .. least half . dog
en- silks and bareges." saslf.,
m 8 hope her husband can afford them said Mrs
.l h.s Green shaking her head significantly. seigu#
" He is not any better off than James They
have the came salary, and are in the same con
'''' Germ" h2e''A Es''as t
"A thousand dollars in these hard times will no
90 great ways with man who has a family Il
support, especially if his wife has great many
!. ~. silk dresses." 1 46l =
flames saves two or three hundred of his sala
ny every year" EH#18 49, IT,
ss.1 Every young ought to save something
q" s1" Do you suppose John Farmer doess' m
II think no., at the rate his wife dresses
!" But it is too hard to wear the same dress oyery
Sunday. If had one more could get along very
weu.n 7,s-r, nr Ill .
You would want another still y
No shouldn't mother."ss4 - a.Irfg.a.
" There is no end to it when you undertake to
la follow all these absurdities. When was girl ]
had only one dress to wear to meeting, and that
only calico" 3s1 al 8sQ
!" The times have changed
Changed for the worse. / am sure no such
vanity as Haunting out in a different dress every
Sunday ever entered a girls head, especially girls
whose fathers were not independently rich"
@ !. Nobody thinks of wearing the same dress all
the time. Only one more - as3 2
#.4uT5H One is enough Sarah. If you let such silly
notions get in your head, you will never know
where to stop. You could easily spend all your
husband'e salary in dress, and then not keep up
with the demands of the times" a3ts-a
- am sure James can afford me silk. 1t
viii not cost much" afasE h s&sas aS
Do not think of it child. Be prudent, careful
and conteuted, aud when James is rich you may
. do Different %a -e. I.
Mrs. Bradley Satisfied, after considerable
more demonstrations the part of her mother,
that she could get along without the new silk But
it was hard to give up the idea of competing with
Mrs. Farmer, whose husband no better off
than hers.