Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-02-04

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Now father, III 6Aaak 20 lor ssas -
Aaa4red d..llart; - prsissi g give y g
.Ysa. enid. 81 I hsvs MOI - much hers
nov; ride down 70 my once At twelve O'Clock, |
and you shall hsvsthe money Iexpect some
lenassts ii pay thsir quarters rent to-day, |
ma co - sp the sum for you BY that |
time
you may ~ well say six hundred said the
ssy. laughing girl she knew her fathers
fond indulgence
"Ob. extrasagant," exclaimed he, but
whatever Of rspsoof the remark implied, IL
Was completely nulliGed by the carcsses given
II the same time.
.sfise hundred dollars too much for set
OF furs. No indeed Why Clara slorsans
COS. eight hundred, and mother thinks those
- selected tsr tne very cheap
The man Of business smiled upon his dar-
ling daughter, then left his elegant and com
fortable house for the cheeriessofhce in Wall
street. At nnon, Alice was In Wall street,
too sprinsing lightly from the carriage, she
tripped up stairs, and was at Mr. Dnrands
desk just as = young female turned from lit.
20 out Having received the six hundred
dollars, Alice left Immediately, and was soon
at smiths Baxaar, chatting gaiiy with young
f.,ieni whom she met there. Both we're look
ing Mt the handsome caps and NUTS which
Mss. Durand had fxed upon for her daughter
the day before. They were beautiful indeed,
and the yonng ladies having exhauted the
usual vocabulary of epifhets in praisins tbem.
turned TO look at others just then hollow,
suppressed cough close by her, caused Alice
to tarn, rs "a young girl passed on her way TO
the sewing room. Thither, too, she went,
few moments after, TO see if dress she had
making there was finished. The super.n-
tendent of work had it in her hand, and was
Yeprimanding some one for coming in SO
late.
Il am sorry to disappoint you, Miss Du
rani,' she said, seeing that young lady APP
proach, "but Jane Lester who is embroider
i,g your dress, did not get here until just
now, and il is not yet finished then turn
in1. she said, ''iiere. Jane you must work
fast and make up for lost time
~ the sewing girl took this garment she
cou h II again Oh, that dismal sound II
touched the heart Of Alice, for she recognized
in Jane Lester the one that passed her in the
o q Sc anil show rnom She looked ut her
moment, an thought it is ~ the labor OF
such us she that my fathers rents are paid
aud obtain money to lavish OH costly
clothes! She went up to the girl, who by
this time was diligently at work, and said, in
kind low tone
DON'T hurry Mt all, I'm not the least in
need of the dress y
Thank YOU ma am, but will soon have
it done; il am not to work on this, it will
DO IN something else"
''l,ut why do you work Mt all? With that
cough you ought not to come out in SUCH
weather as this.
What would become of us--of father, ]
mean, and the children--if were idle? p
"Do YOU support them2 asked Alice, with
eager curiosity.
mot when father is well, but he has been
sick all winter, and paid out the last ofhis
SAVING this morning. so must try and earn
more than ever Agar, that cough.
We'll if tint is the case YOU must con
suit doctor, and do something for yourself
or you will soon be unable to work at all "
Jane shook her head sadly. NO. indeed
We cannot afford to have docter for father
ani couldn't think of such thing myself :"
There was a moments pause-then Alice
spoke Give me your address, and will
seni a kind physician there, who will not
charge you anything But he must prescribe
for both, and you must follow his directions :"
"Ncyer mind me, Miss, I'm not so bad as
you think, and shall be better in little while
| cough more than usual this morning, from
having walked so fast
Mss Unrand returned to the store more
thought than when she first entered it
She did not get near the five hundred dollar
iurs, but took n set ut one-fiith of that price
AMI departed her friend and the
clerks perfectly astonished at her sudden
change OF taste.
Great was the Indignation of her fashiona-
BILE mother, when she learned the result Of
Of daughters shopping
'Why that is not the set | chose" said
she, when the boxes were opened.
.. know it, mother, but preferred these.
You have strange taste, must confess
Anybody can get q stone marten
"rhen | shall still be a Ia mode, replied
the daughter with smile.
Yes, with the vulgar herd, said the lady
scorntully
."rhese are pretty equally comfortable, and
did not cost near IA much Us the sable. an
swerei Alice in extenuution. But her moth
81 was not to be Modified
"What had you to do with the cost !? Did
not your father give you enough to pay for
the others?'
ayes ma am, and more toe"
How Clara Morgan will laugh when she
secs those old fashioned things And well
she may.
II care not for that, and shall enjoy mine
none the less for seeing her with more costly
ones
10 avoid further circumstances, Alice re-
tiral to the library, and addressed a aote to
DIR Weston, the family physician. She beg
gcd him to call that evening at No. 4 Ann
Street, and prescribe for the two individuals
there. Enclosed was hundred dollar bill !,
from whici she wished him to deduct his fee,
and appropriate the remainder To the neccs
saries of the family. There was also II re-
quest for hi.n to keep the matter secret He
un ierssuoi and appreciated this, for more
than once he had been the almoner of Miss
Durand bounty, and he would not abuse
her confidence.
A few DAYS afterwards the dress came
home II was neatly made, and beautifully
embroidered As Alice examined the grace
full design aud elaborate needle work, she
thought OF the trembling fingers that wrought
it.
Yielding to the impulse Of her heart, she
set cat immediately i,r the residence Of MIR
Lester Something told her that she would
find Jane ut home, and sure enough, she had
hecnne SO much worse, that it was impossi
HE Tor her to leave the house, yet she was
trying to sew, that the family might notstarve.
The doctor had found Jane and her father
extremely in but as they were ina comfort
able house, barely furnished with necessarics
il is true, for not superhuous article was
there, he feared to wound their pride by offer
ing mere than his professional services. 1t
is needless to say he returned the money sent
by Alice on the first opportunity. Alice, to
whom the contrast between her own luxnri,
Gus home AMI the cheerless apartment she
was in suggested real poverty, which the
fte','c efforts ofJane to continue at work con
frmel felt that something more was needed
sf,is, surely, is disnbedience to the doc
tors orders, she said gently taking the
work from the invalid
New You must not plead, necessity, she
continued, For here is y reply in advance tn
that argument" ard she slipped her purse
into James trembling hand.
No word of thanks fell from the poor girl