The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-03-26
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albert, l wish you would let me
have seventy Eve cents.
Kate Landman spoke carefully,
for she knew that her husband had
not much money to spare; yet she
spoke very earnestly, and there
was q world of entrcaty in her
look.
What do you want seventy.fve
cents for?' asked Albert.
i want to got some braid for my
new dress.
Il thought you had the materials
all on hand for that.
so l thought had; but Mrs.
Smith and Mrs. Thompson both
have trimming of braid on theirs,
and il looks very pretty. Itis very
fashionable, and 1T certainly adds
very much to tho looks of the
dress
Plague take these women's fash
ions! Your endless trimmings and
thing-a. ma.gigs cost more than
the dress is worth. It's nothing
but shell out money when a wo.
man once thinks Of a new dress
Surely, | don't have so many
new dresses. ! do certainly try to
be'as economical as / can Y
Its a funny kind Of economy
at all events. But if you must
haveit, ! suppose you must.
And Albert Landman took out
his wallet, and counted out the
seventy Eve cents; but be gave il
grudgingly, and when he put the
wallet back into his pocket bo did
it with nm emphasis which seemed
to say he wouldn't take it out q.
gain in a week.
When Albert reached the outer
door on his way to work, ho found
the weather so threatening that be
concluded to 60 back and get hit
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 he had caught her in tho act
and asked whatit meant.
Good graciousl' | should like tc
know If you are crying at what
said about the dress.
i wasn't crying at what you
said, Albert, replied Kate, tremu
lously; 'but you were so. reluctant
to grant me the favor, / was think
ing how hard / have to work; | an
tied to the house; how many littl'
things ] have to perplex mo--ant
then to think--'
'PshawF What do you want t
be so foolish for!2
And away started Albert Land
man a second time, but he was no
to escape so easily. In the hall b.
waS met by bis daughter Lizzie
bright.eyed, rosy checked girl 0
ten years.
% papa, give mo fifteen cents?'
'Whal2'
%. .Iwantfiftcen cents. Doploas
give tito me-
What in the world do you wan
of it. Are they changing schoc
booksagainY
No; l want to buy q hoop. Ellie
Smith has got ono, and so ha
Mary Buck and Sarah Allen. Nj
: Grant has some real pretty ones I
sell. Can't / have one?
'Nonsensel you want q hooI
go and get one off some old barre
/ cant afford to bc buying HOOP
for you TO trundle about the street
!! please, papa
! No, | tell you
d The bright blue eyes were file
? with tears, and the child's sobbin
!. broke upon his ear. Albert Lant
man hurried from his house wit
some impatient words upon b
lips.
This was in the morning. 1
noon when he came home to b
: dinner, there was cloud over Il
!, household. His wife was sobt
d and even little Lizzie, usually
+ gay and blithesome, was sad al
e, silent.
4 4 But these things could not 10
is long in that household, for u
Of husband and wife really Low,
.. each other devotedly, and were
hoart kind and forbearing. WIZ
: Albert came to his supper Ka
o,Igreeted him with q kiss, and in
= momentthe sunshine came bac
y and had the lesson ended there Y
husband might have fancied th
hehad done nothing wrong, d
that the cloud had been nothi