National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-03-20
A Mirror
IN WHICH MANY PERSONS MAY SEE
THEMSELVES REFLECTED.

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+ Kate Landman spoke very care
fully, for she knew that her husband
had not much money to spare; yet
she spoke earnestly, and there was
a world Of entrcaty in her look.
what do you want seventy five
cents fore asked Albert.
Il want to get some braid for my
new dress
Il thought you had all the materi-
ais on hand for that 49,
so thought | had but Mrs.
Smith and Mrs. Thompson both
have a trimming of braid upon theirs,
and it looks very pretty. 1t is very
fashionable, and it certainly adds
much to the beauty Of a dress
!Plague take these women's fash
ions! Your endless trimmings and
thing maiigs cost more than the
dress is worth. It's nothing but
shell out money when once woman
thinks of Il new dress
Surely, / don't have so many new
dresses. | do certainly try to be as
economical as cam
1T is a funny kind of economy, at
all events. But you must have it,
suppose you must
Aid Albert Landman took out
his wallet and counted out the sew
enty-fve cents; but he gave it grud
ingly, and when he put the wallet
back into his pocket he did it with
an emphasis which seemed to say
that he would not take it out again
for n 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 enter
ing 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 the act, and
asked what it meant. &C
Good graciousr cried the hus-
band, Il should like to know if you
: are crying at what l said about the
dress 2
Il was not crying at what you
said, Albert replied Kate, tremu-
. !ously; but you were so reluctant to
grant me the favor. | was thinking
how hard | have to work | am tied
to the house how many little things
, | have to perplex mc---then to
| thinh--
. .Pshaw! What do you want to
be so foolish for?
, And away started Albert Land
! man second time, but he was not
to escape so easily. In the hall he
was met by his daughter Lizzie a
bright.eyed rosy checked girl of ten
years.
30, papa 1 want Is cents.'
wv hat ?
'OI want 10 cents. Do please
l give it to me-
'What in the world do you want
of it! Are they changing school
books again p
; NO, | want to buy hoop. Ellen
Smith has got one, and so has Mary
! Ruck and Sarah Ellen. Mr.. Grant
, has got somereal pretty ones to sell
= Can't | have one!
'Nonesensc If you want hool
:, 90 and get one off some old barrel
| can't afford to buy hoops for you
, to trundle abou, the streets
y 'Pleasc, pap.
no, told Sou.'
The bright blue eyes were filled
:, with tears, and the clild's sobbine
:. broke upon his ear. Albert Land.
', man hurried from the house with
I! some very impatient words upon his
lips.
This was in the morning. AT
, noon, when he came home to his
= dinner, there was Il cloud over tn,
I. household. IIisw was sober, ant
> even little Lizzie, usually gay an,
. blithesome, was sad and silent.
y But these things could not las
- long in that household, for the hus
. band and wife really loved eacl
other devotedly, and at heart kline
n and forbcaring. When Albert cam,
y to his supper, Kate greeted him will
> Il kiss, and in n moment the SUNSHINE
7 came back and had the lesson cud
ed there the husband might hav
iancicd that he had done nothing
wrong, and that the cloud had bee
= nothing but the cxhala,ion Of dc
n nestle ferment, for which no one wa
Is particularly responsible, though h
Is might have banishcd the convictio
X that womens fashions were nu
q sance aud a humbug, as well as
81 frightful draft upon husband
y pockets.
I, After tea, Albert did q few chorc
ii around the house, and then he light
~ ed q cigar and walked ont. lie ha
D. gone but % short distance when h
rs met Lizzie. IN her right hand sh
A. dragged an old hoop, which she ha
r. taken from dilapidated -four la,
s. rel, while with her left she was rul
u bing her red, swollen eyes. Sh
y was in deep grief, and was sobbin
u, painfully. Ilestopped his child On
~ asked what was the matter.
:, She answered as well rs her sol,
lc would let her, that the other girl
IL had laughed at her, and made iu
+, oihcrold hoop. They had nice, pref
:" ty hoops, while hers was ugly an
- homely.
Never mind said Albert, pnttlnaI
the little one upon the head (for IN
y, chlld's grief touched him y Lerh.ap
we'u hove q new hoop sometime