The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-08
THE RAG CARPET.

A rich gentleman said to me vesterdav
" / was taught good lesson by remarF
! read in early life, in piece entitled.
Clothes and old clothes, that one per-
son makes two people happy by giving
away his secondhand clothes, viz: the
person to whom he gives them, and the
tailor who has an opportunity to make him
some more in their place." But find
mat my more thrifty friends make carpets
OF their rags and old clothes, and / found
mat Mrs Hall had triumphantlv nailed
oown fresh, nice, warm Garnet abe had
iooL ea anu had woven in South street. I
1ooked at it obviously. 1t was lust what
likewise. 'neu nao o lnuee
Catherine, "said /, on entering NV own
domlclle, IL mean to make a warm rao
carpet Tor our kitchen this winter II =
50 cold place, my feet almost freeze when
the thermometer is down to ZERO. and 7
come down to get breakfast, and then the
scrubbings have given that floor are not
to be numbered. Decidedly. must have
a carpet. There is large roll of clothes
in the attic I put by for our poor pension
ers what fool / have been, always to
give away all our garments as sosn as they
are worn little; so tbriftless. Mrs. Hail
cuts them in strips, and sews them in great
balls, and sends them to be woven into
long breadths of carpeting."
%" Why, Maria" said Catherine, looking
sorry, "our men do no hard work, and
wear their clothes very lightly. ~ Itwould
be shame to cut them up for carpets
when you have done SO much good with
them, outing and fitting them SO nicely
for poor children am astonished at your
new fancy. Don't you remembers how
angry you are with those ladies who sell
their old clothes for glassware and knick-
knacks for the what-nOts, and how You
boast that not one of those little images
ever came into our house in that wayr.io
"Well, but, I replied fretfully,' -four
income is so small and everything is SO
high; | can't afford to, buy carpet, and
L must have one, my throat is so affected
with bronchitis" 1if Yo2Jmo5 cd
So | brought down the big roll of
clothes, and put it in my closet where I
kept my work, and determined to COM
mence my new plan that very day. How
ever, some family cares delayed me, and
the next morning after breakfast the old
man who mends our furniture came round
with little table, and / unluckily asked
him how he was provided for the cold
weather.
Every poorly, am; Idont get much
work to do, and our boys amt half clad
for winter. staal-7 'i1'7s'' ''''~'
~ said l, quite enthusiastically.
: have got the incest jacket for your
Ben, my son has just out-grown it. Send
him round for it. .. ~ - -
In few moments, true enough, the boy
came, and looked delighted with his prize
Alas my carpet, | forgot all about it tin
twas over. y
That day heard of a colored boy who
was lame, about fifteen years of age. and
VINO wept bitterly at the thought of going
to the poor-house this winter. Quick as
thought, the pants, vest and all followed.
and SO it was at the end of the week. nv
roll was diminished sadly. / had no heart
to begin the carpet when Hound one wo-
man with no other dress but the one she
wore, and poor, newborn baby with
none at all An me /! what suffering there
is in this beautiful world. "a a95gts0 .sogi
That night grandma came to make US a
call in her handsome carriage, and as she
sat in our little sitting-room, she said.
!" Maria, Ihave been taking up the Brus-
sells carpet in my back parlor and getting
a new one, and / have cut the old one in
two pieces, one to cover q bedroom and
the other to lay down in your Kitchen
Dear me! was astonished. She did
not know my thoughts, or how anxious I
had been, but Providence had sent me
carpet. Now will not say that every
one who diligently gives away first of his
penury or Of his abundance, will be re-
warded by Brussels carpet, but + feel
tnat GOD sees every self denial, even the
smallest, and looks after our minutest
concerns, end will bestow even in this life
a hundred-fold and in the world to coine
life everlasting. Adrocdte and Guord;nn