The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-07-07
From Arthur's Home Magazine.
OTHER PEOPLES EYES,

sour paror carpet is beginning to look
real shabby" said Mrs. Cartwright. al de-
clare! II | don't feel right down ashamed
Of it. every time visitor, who Is any body,
calls in to see me-"
"a new one will cost"
The husband Of Mrs. Cartwright, good
natured. comDlaisant man. who was never
hetter please.i than when he could please his
wife, paused to let her finish the sentence,
which she did promptly. by saying.
"Only forty dollars. I've counted it all
up. 1t will take thirty. six yards. | saw a
beautiful piece at Martin's-just the thing
at one dollar a yard. Binding and other
little matters. won't go beyond three or four
dollars, and can make il myself, you know"
Only forty dollars! Mr.. Cartwright
glanced down at the carpet which had de-
corated the floor Of their little parlor for
nearly FIVE years. II had pleasant look in
his eyes, for il was associated with many
pleasant memories. Only forty dollars, for
new one If the cost we're only five, in
stead Of forty, the inclination to Danish this
old friend to an out. Of. the-way chamber would
/ have been no stronger in the mind 0f Mr..
! Cartwright. But forty dollars was an item
/ in the calculation. and to Mr.. Cartwright a
serious one. Every year he was finding it
harder to meet the gradual increasing de-
mand upon his purse; for there was steadi-
ly progressive enlargement Of his family, and
year after year, the cost Of living advanced.
lie was thinking Of this when his wife said :
You know, Henry, that cousin Sally
Gray is coming here on visit week after
next. Now, DO want to put the very best
face on TO things while she is here. We
were married at the same time, and hear
that her husband is getting rich. | feel a
little pride about the matter, and don't want
her to think that we're growing worse of than
when we began life, and can. afford to re.
place this shabby old carpet Tor a new one. '
! No further argument was needed. Mr..
Cartwright had sixty dollars in one Of the
bureau draws, a TACT well known to his wife.
And il was also known to her that it was the
accumulation Of very careful swings, design
ed, When the sum reached one hundred dol.
lars, TO cancel loan made By friend, al
time when sickness and death 10 the family
had run np their yearly expenses beyond the
years income. Very DESTROYS was Mr.
Cartwright to pas off this loan, and he bad
| ielt lighter in the heart as the aggregate ol
savings came nearer and nearer 70 the sum
, required Tor that purpose.
but he had no firmness to oppose his wife
in anything. Her wishes, in this instance
as 10 many others. he unwisely made a law
] The argument about Cousin Sally Gray wa.
, irresistible. No more than his wife did be
! wish to look pour IN her eyes; aud 80, foi
; the sake OF her eyes. new carpet wa:
, bought, and the old one--nut by any means
as worn and faded as the language Of his wife
. indirated--sent up stairs. TO do.second.ha
duty ia the spare bed room.
!, Not within the limits Of lorty dollars wai
: the expense confined. a more costly pat
. tern than could be obtained Tor one dollar
; yard tempted The eyes of Mrs. Cartwright
/ and distracted from her husbands savings
$ the sum Of over fifty dollars. Mats and rug,
{ to 20 with the carpet were Indispensable, 4
/. give the parlor the right effect in the eyes o
: cousin Sally Gray, aud the purchase Of thes
absorbed tie remainder Of Mr.. Cartwright
carefully huafded sixty dollars.
!. Unfortunately for the comfortable cun,litio
Of Mrs. Cariwrisht's mind, The new rsrpc