Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-05-20
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G N E N ORE DRESS.
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CHAPTER I.
To think of wearing the same dress to
church Sunday after Sunday e. exclaimed Mrs
Bradley, young married lady, 10 Mrs Green
her mother
why not Sarah q
Folks will think it is the only one l have
which is fit to wear to meetings -
1t is, isn't it 2"
81 know IT, but | don't care about all the
world knowing it,
You would not make all the world believe
what is not true, would you?"
4" ! don't care; l mean to have a new silk i'm
rnedately ?"
" But, Sarah, your husband cannot afford it,
Yes he can ; at least we can curtail our ex-
renses in something else"
What -
We'll don't know we could make our
provision bill less"
Atrs Green shook her head
q" / don't think there is anv need of our hav-
ing beefsteaks and mutton chops every morning
for breakfast. We never had such things at
home, you kn. W. l would not give straw for
meat for breakfast"
But James depends on IT,"
Il know it yet for the sake of letting me
appear little better on Sunday, he would be
willing to dispense with it"
Would you be willing to ask him the ques-
tiou 2"
Yes; why not o.
Would you ask him 20 go without his break
fast in order that you may have All extra silk
dress g.
Go without his breakfast, mother never
thought of such thing" said Mrs, Bradley.
with disturbed look.
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 be could make meal without it
We will not say anything more about that
them, replied the young wife, who, l beg the
reader to believe, would not willingly have de-
prived her husband of any real comfort " How
do you suppose Mrs. Farmer gets so many new
dresses 2"
don't know"
She seems to come out with new one al
most every Sunday. She must have at least a
half dozen silks and berages"
4 hope her husband can afford them'' re-
piled Mrs Green, shaking her head sgnif-
cantly.
He is not any better off than James. They
have the salary and in the same con-
Germ"
/" 4 thousand dollar. these hard times will
not 90 great ways with a man who has fam
lily to support, especially if his wife has good
many silk dresses"
a But James saves two or three hundred of his
salary every year"
Every young ought to save some
thing"
Do you suppose John Farmer does %
/ think not. at the rate his wife dresses"
But it is too hard to wear the same dress
every Sunday. If had one more, could get
along very we'll"
You would want another still"
No, l shouldn't, mother"
There is no end 10 it when YOU undertake
to follow all these absurdities- When / was a
girl, bad only one dress to wear to meeting
and that was only a calico"
The times have changed
Changed for the worst. / am sure no such
vanity as Haunting out in different dress every
Sunday ever entered girls head, especially
girls whose fathers were not independently
rich"
Nobody thinks of wearing the same dress
all the time. Only one more"
One is enougfs Sarah. If you let such silly
notions get into your head you will never know
where TO stop. You could easily spend all your
husbands salary in dress, and then not keep up
with the demand of the time
L am sure James can afford me new silk
1t will not cost much"
" Do not think of it, child. Be prudent, care
ful, and contented. and when James is rich you
may do differently"
Mrs, Brady was satisfied, after considerable
more demonstration on the part of her mother,
that she could get along without the new silk.
But II was hard TO give Up the idea of eempe-
ting With Mrs Farmer whose husband was no
better off thar hers