Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-05-21
NV Scissors.
by FRANCIS DANE GA

"Well, yes, ann pretty well, all bat my
hands"
e Your hapds, what's tho matter with
yoNr hands; not been scalding them |
Vopc Z"
No! worse thou that; | got them all
bistcrcd up by trying to cut out the chi.
drcn's fall clothes, with my old scissors :;
I've had them these ten years, and they
arc just as dull as q hoe, and cvcrytme /
cut a roundabout, shirt or a pair of pants,
I've just such timc it, Susan Willard
is sewing for INC now, and wanted to get
nay. cutting done while my hand was in, SO
just wanted to see if you would lend me
your large nice taior's scissors a day or
two, for | won't do anythiug with mine in
n week"
Really, Mrs. Wicks, would like to
accommodate you, but am very busy with
minc just now, cutting rags for my carpet,
and could not possibly spare them without
great Inconvenience"
Well, don't know what I'll do;
cant cut out any moro with mine, and Su-
san has only two weeks to stay. DO YOU
know of any one who has good pp that
| could get :"
"I could hardly get alorg without mine
for single day, without feeling thc want
ofthcm ~
"Wl,at did yours cc.t?''
"Two dollars and half"
"T"o dollars and half-coodncss =
Mr. Wicks would no moro let me have mo-
ncy to buy such pair of fscissors than he'd
fly"
con [ think YOU arc mistakcn-I have
always thought Mr.. Wicksvcry indnlgont"
"Thcre's where yon arc altogether mis-.
takcn. ! hardly ever ask him for money
but what he says something TO hurt my
feelings, and often do without things that
really need, rathet than have any words.
Why yesterday | asked him for money to
get trimmings for MY and Rosina's fall
bonnet, and it was all | could do to get it
out of him"
How much did it require to fit your
bonnet for the wintcr?"
Only So: it would cost $40, you know,
to get us both new ones"
And you have the money in your pos.
session.
Yes, and VIC thought we would Get
trimmings at Grants. That beautiful row
al purple with tho orange cdgc--a love ola
ribbon, and 50 chenp-only scycnty-Gyc
cents yard"
My dear Mrs. Wicks, Lex me give YOU
new idea. Would your husband COM
plain if you should trim your bonnet with
ribbon worth half that sum, and anpropri
ate the balance to the purchase of a good
pair of scissors 7"
No, of course hc would not, but who,
'd like to know, is going to make them
selves the town talk for the sake of crafty
ing husbands wl,ims !"
Do it to crafty yourself, to add to your
own comfort, My bonnet, trimmings and
all, will not cost one dollar and II half, and
L don't believe the town will trouble itself
one bit about it. Town talk or no talk
you may be sure LII never ran about with
my fingers in rags while | can save tho
price of q pair of scissors in one bonnet
trimming. Now don't be offended, Mrs.
Wicks; know you think you can't get
along any other way than just as you do
but if you only make the effort to ccono-
mize IN your articles of dress, &c.. You will
soon find youfelfFnply supplied with all
these little household convenicnccs, which
you seem to want, and my word for it, your
husband will not make half the objection
to furnishing money for usefulness that he
now does for the purchasing of non-essen-
tials.'
Now, there is neighbor Pcnnyman's
wife, fourishing in fifteen dollar Grape
shawl, but her girl complains that she has
to borrow wash-tubs weekly, and that Mrs.
pennymm says it is all MIR Pcnnyman's
fault"
Why, Mrs. Smith, I thought you was
Woman's Right Woman"
And so | am; but / assure you am
no advocate of %oman's injustice and folly;
and while feel that the law of the land
and coiumon justice greatly opprcsscs wo-
men, and also feel that she oftcntimcs on
presses herself and lays heavier burdens
upon her own heart, then she hersclfis vii.
ling to bear, and to excuse her own weak
ness of purpose, her own foolish love of dis
play, lays all the blame upon her husband
who would willingly indulge every rcasona-
bic desire, and only frowns when unsener-
Gus demands are made upon his means"
We'll, [ don't know, Mr. Wicks seems
more willing to give me money for dress
than anything else"
Is that not because he does not feel at
liberty to deny any personal qualification
because he feels that he can make YOU hap
pier thus than in any other way? TRY the
experiment, Mrs. Wicks; tell him YOU
VIII reserve half your usual expenses for
household convcniences, and if he will not