The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-04-12
A IIRROR.
In which People May See Themselves
Reflected.

albert, wish you would let me have
seventy-fve cents"
Kate Landman spoke very carefully, for
she knew that her husband had not much
money to spare yet she spoke earnestly.
and there was world of entreaty in her
look.
"What do you want seyenty-fve cents
for 90 asked Albert, not very pleasantly.
sI want to get some braid for my new
dress"
81 thought you had the materials all on
hand for that"
$50 I thought had but Mrs. Smith
and Mrs. Thompson both have a trimming
Of braid on theirs, and it looks very pretty.
Il is fashionable, and it certainly adds much
to the Dress"
"Plague take these Wemsn's fashians
Your endless winnings aud thIng-e- aa4-
gigs cost more than-the dress is worth
It's nothing but shell out moRe5 when
once a woman thinks of new dress.
Surely, don't have many new dres-
ses. TRY to be as econimical as can.''
"Ifs funny kind of ecOnOn.g, at all
events. But if you must have it, Sup
pose you must"
And Albert Landmapiook out his wallet
and counted out th ssy tive cents
but he gave. it grudginglyg "a aVhen he
put the wallet back in his pocket, he did
it with an emphasis which seemed to say
that be wolIldn't take it out again for a
week.
When Albert reached the outer door, on
his way to his work, he found the weather
so threatening that he concluded to go
back. and get his umbrella, and upon re-
entering the sitting room, he found his
wife in tears She tried to hide the fact
that she had been weeping, but she had
been caught in tie act, and was asked what
it meant
"Good gracious '' cried the husband.
"I should like to know if yap are-erying at
what said about your dress. !"
Il wasn't crying at what you said, Al
bert, =" replied Kate tremulouely, ''but you
were so reluctant to grant me the favor. I
was thinking how hard i. work-I am
tied to the boR-manY little things
have to perplex me and then to think"
80, pshaw What do you want to be
so foolish for %
And away started Albert Laadman a
second time but not to escape SO easily.
In the hall he was met by his daughter
Lizzie, bright-eyed, rosy checked girl,
ten years of age.
90. papa, give me fifteen cents"
''What ?"
80, want fifteen cents. Do please
give it to me-"
"What in the world do you want of It'll
Are they changing school-books again %
"No--I want to buy hoop. Ellen
Smith has got one, and so has Mary Rucks
and Sarah Allen. Mr.. Grants got some
real pretty ones to sell. Mayn't I have
one %
Nonsense if you want hoop 60 and
get one from off an old barrel. 1 can't af-
ford to be buying hoops for you to trundle
about the Streets
''Please, papa"
''No, tell you p
The bright blue eyes were filed with
tears, as the ohild's sobbing broke upon
his ears Albert Landman hurried from the
house with some very impatient words on
his lips.
This was in the morning. At noon when
he came home to his dinner, there was a
cloud over the household. His wife was
sober, and he was sober; and even little
Lizzie, usually SO gay and blithesome, was
sad and silent
But these things could not last long in
that household for the husband and wife
really loved each other devotedly, and were
at heart, kind and forbearing. When Al
bert came 20 his supper Kate greeted him
with kiss, and in a moment the sunshine
> came back and had the lesson ended there
the husband might have fancied that he
had done nothing wrong, that the cloud
had been nothing but the ezhalaIion Of a
! domestic ferment fox which no one was
8 particularly responsible though he might
not have banished the conviction that wo-
mans fashions were nuisance and hum
! bug. as well as frightful draft upon a
:. husbands pockets.
After tea Albert did feR chores around
;, the house and then he lighted cigar and
/. walked out. He had gone but short dis
tance when he met Lizzie. In her right
hand she dragged an old hoop, which had
], been taken from a dilapidated -four barrel
while with her left she was rubbing hel
red swollen eyes. She was in deep gFie
for she was sobbing painfully. He stop
ped his child and asked her what was the
matter.
She answered as well as her sobs would
let her, that the other girls had laughed q