Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-08
Two Dollars per Annum, in Advance.
WHOLE NUMBER 276.
Gus Finds an Economical Girl.


CONGRESS HALL, SARATOGA, July %.
My old statistician says there are just
four of those be tutiful sage green dresses
in Saratoga. Three, he says, are worn
by very stylish young ladies, and one is
worn by an old lady who has no bust
ness to be wearing it. Every time he
sees one of those beautiful dresses he
goes into an easy ecstacy of delight.
He rubs his hands and says, "There
comes the agony of Paris-$400, if it's
a centl'
When we look up it is a sage green.
Yesterday one of the beautiful young
ladies who wears a sage green took a
ride over to the lake with my friend
Gus. Gus has got good blood in him,
but he isn't very ''stampy." He always
ting interested in them they talk such
expensive talk about camers hair, vel
vet suits, and trips to Europe, that poor
Gus gets frightened off. He comes up
in my room and says he don't believe
there is girl in New York who don't
cost her father $4,000 year just for
nice clothes. Then he buries his face
in his hands and says, so dear, there
is no chance for poor fellow on $1,000
year p
Yesterday Gus came into my room
looking light and happy. His eyes
fairly shone with tt ectasy of blissful
emotion. s --..
What is it Gus ?' I asked.
"pye found her she's here p and
then hestopped to catch his breath.
perhaps that Mrs Woodruff or Susan
B. Anthony had arrived. =
"Why, the girl I've been looking for
-sweet-young- and not ex-
pensive %
lightning, Gusr' said I, putting on
my glasses, s'I'd like to see such girl
myself. Where is she?"
"We just came in from ride-she's
down in the parlor-a regular sumner,
in sage green and so economical p'
"Sage green-sage green" NUT
tered to myself, thinking of the S400
saw young lady pay for just such a
dress. "How do you know that che
isn't expensive? How do you-?"
"Why, confound il ~ broke in Gus,
81 know it. I've been talking to her
nomicalIy just like sensible girl" e7
What did she say 2'' continued.
| " Why, she said she was looking
! for tr1e man, a. brave man and gener-
GUS, with love in his heart, and with
such man she said she could be happy
in garret with the man she loved
Hal ha I" and Gus whirled round twice
and kicked the crown out of my best
Dunlap hat in the excess of his mirth.
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1 made Gus take me right down for
an introduction to his economical
friend, and then / let him go off to
change his coat for dinner.
Miss D. was pretty and stylish, too.
She had on a love "a $75 hat and
those pretty S1S laced CATERS, which the
man makes under the Coleman House.
Her dress was the richest gros grain
sage green with paraier, soatteau, ooLOnaise,
and court train. 1t contained exactly
176 yards of SO silk. On her pretty
hands were six-button gaslight green
kids, which lost themselves under point
lace under-sleeves and over diamond
bra celets. On her arm she carried a
$1,5OO camels hair shawl.
This is mothers, Mr.. Perkins," she
replied. ~ took it IL, case of a rain.
1 don't expect to have camefs hair and
regular diamonds until Pm married.
Mothers last words, when / left home,
were: f." Now, Lizzie, don't be intro
dueed to any foreigners, or lose you1
jewelry."
"Couldn't you be happy after you
are married without camels hair and
diamonds ?'' 1 asked, taking her $7s
pearl and point lace fan, and looking
down at her point lace underskirt.
.sWhy, l hadn't thought much about
it. That's just what your friend Motley
and l were talking about. And such
nice long talk
"Then you and Gus have been dis
cussing the love in-a-cottage idea, have
you 2" l interrupted.
ayes, that was it; and he's SO nice
"And didn't you say that you could
live in a garret with a brave, handsome
man. whom you loved dearly 2"
"Yes, l did say that 1 don't care il
I do blush. 1 said that I could live
happily in a garrett with the man loveo
and 1 could-if we could have nice
elevator and have our meals sent II
from Delmonico's. Why, those Parar
Stevens Sc 900 garret suites ars just al
cosy as they can ber'
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This, alas was the economical sweet
ness of my friend Gus, who could live
in a 5000 garret with the IAN she
loved. These are the economical youns
ladies who come to Saratoga and deceive
us poor fellows-who talk garret, ge
our soLtaires and then come the eleva
tor and lunch from Delmonico dodge
on us. These, alas | are the young la
dies who gain our honest love just t.
steal our money for S400 sage greer
dresses with r1Gtteaus and poIonatSe all Gu
: on the bias, or sell us. These are tn
. dear creatures whom magnanimou
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