Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1856-01-17


TO think Of wearing the .srne dress q
Church Sunday after Sunday p exelaime ed
Mrs Bradley, young lady, to Mrs. Green
her mother
why not, Sarahi
Folks will think i, is The only one have
which is 6t 90 wear to meeting
1t Is isn't iti
i know il, but l don't care about al tic
world knowing IL
You would not make all tho world be
/ heve that Whivh is hot true would you .
i don't care l uicau 10 have neE silk
I Immediately
'Ba, Sarah, your husband cannot afford
I IL
'Ye' be can; =, least We can eurtsil our
expenses in something else
.WLa;P
'Well, don't know; VIC could max on,
provision bill less
Mrs Green shook her head.
4 don't think there il any need Of our hav.
ingbeef.tsaks aud mutton chops c, ery n,orn.
Ing for breakfast
Bat James depends aron it,
Il know a; yet for the sake Of letting e, >
| appear . little better on Sunday he would
willingly disIens with il
Would ySa be willing ~ ask the Cue.
tion y
Yes, why .not?
Would yoa ask him 10 20 without bis
breakfast in order that you may have ~ ex
ira silk dress -
Go without histreakfast, mother uev.
or though, Of such taing,' said Mrs Brad.
ley with disturbed lock :
hut you know IL amounts 20 the same
thing TO him. He was brought up in the
country. where be bad meat for breakfast
and be does Dot think be could make q meal
without ia
we will not say anything ore about tia.
then, replied the young wife. who, | beg
the reader TO believe, would not have wilIioe-
iy deprived ber husband Of any real eonfor,.
'How do you suppose Mrs Farmer gets SO
many dressesP
Il don't know
'She seems 20 eotse on, With nsu one al.
most every sandy She Eust have, at
least, half dozen sil2s ABl beragss'
Il hope Lsr husband can afford theni. re-
Piled Mira Green, shaking her head sig1ia
eantly
lie il not any better Oh tbao James -
They have the same salary, AID arc in the
same coueeFn'
y thousand dollars 10 iLesc lard times.
family to support. e. peeially Il Lis wife has
q grest many elk dresses
'B2t James saves two or thfcs kuudrei
OF bis salary every year
Every young nan ought 10 save some
thing
DO Jon Eapposs Johb Farmer dossp
Il think not as the rate bis wife dresses p
bat it j. too hard 10 wear the sane dress
every Sunday IL u bad ose more | could
get along very we'll
You uould want another still
Ne i shouldn't. mother
There is no end TO IL, Shou you under
take 20 fsllow sli these absarditiss When
vas girl bad osly ose dress 10 wear TO
meotieg, and that vas a calico
The ssssss have changed
'Cbangsd fer the worse / am s6ro no
such vanity as hauaiiSg cut in q different
dress every Sunday ever entered q girls
bead, especially girls whose faihsrs were not
Independently rich
Nobody thinks of wearing ths sums dress
all she slime Oaly Sac n0re-
'Oao u enough, Sarah. IL yon lei such
silly notions get isto your head, ysa pill .
never know where 10 stop You csuld eas.
ily sPsad AL y0as ha'basls salary 10 dress.
aud then not keep DP u.ih the domaods q
iLs timoa
4 an sure James can sdsfd ne new
silk Is sili not eost much
DO not ttisk of u. ehiid Bs pruisBt, (
ogrffll a1d soniestod aai shen james IL 4
rieh yos may % d.agebt
Mrs Bradley "a satisfied aftsf consider (
abls mofe demoustrAiioa on ihe part a her
- other, that she coaid gst long uiibsut =
aes siik Bst "a Vas ksrd 70 eivs 40 ths
Iies y ofcae'Pssiog viih Mrs. Pasaer, whose
bustand vs. 20 better sG thsn hers
Jsnes Hrsdisy sd John Farmer were
,lstks iu q large hoBss ia ths cay sad 10th
rsa5ed 10 q ssst cottage In he sabarts---
Their forane hpi bcsu ih1s fsr very rssr
Ne sane. aad ysrhEpt tbsy mizht have eea.
iusoa the sans shroaah be. bat Ftke ar
lsfsut sharsetsF of their wives
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