Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-06-17

fOur par1Or carpet IS peSlnnlpS 10 look
real shabby said Mrs. Cartwright. i de.
clare! If 1 don't feel right down ashamed
Of it, every time visitor, who is any body,
calls into see me-
"A new one will cost
The husband of Mrs. Cartwright, a good
uatured, compliant man, who was never bet
ter pleased than when he could please his
wife, paused to let her fuish the sentence,
which she did promptly, by saying,
'Only forty dollars. I've counted it all
up 1t will take thirty-six yards. l saw
beautiful piece at Martin's-just the thing
at one dollar yard. Binding and other
little matters, won't 60 beyond three or
four dollars, and I can make it myself, you
know
Only forty dollars! Mr.. Cartwright CLAN.
oed down at the carpet which had decorated
the floor of their little parlor for nearly five
years. 1t had pleasant look in his eyes,
for it was associated with many pleasant
memories. Only forty dollars, for a new
one? Ifthe cost were only five, instead OF
forty, the inclination to Danish this old
friend to an out-of.the-way, chamber would
have been no stronger in the mind of MIR.
Cartwright. But forty dollars was an item
in the calculation, and to Mr.. Cartwright a
serious one Every year he was finding it
harderto meet the gradual increasing demand
upon his purse; for there was steadily
progressive enlargement Of his family, and
year after year, the cost ofliving advanced
He was thinking of this when his wife
said:
You know, Henry, that cousin Sally Gray
is coming here on a visit week after next
Now, I 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 little
bride about the matter and don't want her
o.thiuk that we're growing worse off than
when we began life, and can't afford to re-
place this shabby old carpet for new
one.'
No further argument was needed. Mr..
Cartwright had sixty dollars in one Of the
bureau drawers, fact we'll known to his
wife. And it was also we'll known to her
that it was the accumulation Of very careful
savings, designed, when the sum reached
one hundred dollars, to cancel loan made
by friend, at time when sickness and
death in the family had run up their yearly
expenses beyond the years income. Very
desirous was Mr.. Cartwright to pay off this
loan, ard he had felt lighter in the heart as
the aggregate of savings came nearer and
nearer to the sum required for that pur-
pose. .. ..a. -.
But he had no frmness to oppose his wife
in anything. Her wishes, in this instance,
as in many others, he unwisely made law.
The argument about Cousin Sally Gray was
irresistible. No more than his wife did he
wish to look poor in her eyes; and SO, for
the sake of her eyes, new carpet was bought,
and the old one-not by any means as worn
and faded as the language of his wife indica-
ted-sent up stairs, to do secondhand duty
in the spare bed room
Not within the limits of forty dollars was
the expense confined. A more costly pat
tern than could be obtained for one dollar a
yard tempted the eyes of Mrs. Cartwright
and distracted from her husbands savings
the sum of over fifty dollars. Mats and
rugs to 90 with the carpet were indispensa-
Bile, to give the parlor the right effect in
the eyes of cousin Sally Gray, and the pur-
chase Of these absorbed the remainder Of