Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-07-04
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Mrs! Markly's face eflmsoned
little as she replied
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she lostsin the morning.
81 do not think. So
care you sure you did quite right
TO turn her off with but three shill-
ings when she felt that she had seamed
four?"
9 aTo betsure I am how am I to
economic at all if I give these peo-
pie Just what they ask every time-f
It's shilling here and a shilling
there, a little now and a little then,
but it amounts to something in the
course of a year" -
! Mr.. Markly saw his wife was in no
humor to be convinced Of her; error
SO he.adroitly changed the subject Of
conversation.
The dinner service had been re.
moved, and the CRATE replenished
with coal, which sent its grateful
warmth throughout the parlors, when
Madame Tournure, the celebrated
French milliner, was announced. She
came bustling in with baudboxes
packages and parcels, IN endless pro
fusion.
aI hope I find you quite at leisure.
Madame, she began !; :. | come this
evening, as you request. have bring
you plenty rich tings for you make
choice. See, here is hat beautiful
for you'll there, look in de glass,
how becoming just de ting, Mad
amel" ~
The lovely face of Mrs. Markly
looked still more lovely beneath the
gossamer surrounding, called a hat,
With smile of satisfaction, she turn
ed from the mirror to her husband,
makingia silent appeal to his taste
and his purse.
"What is the price Of this head
piece /" he inquired, -,
"Oh | noting at all, Monsieur, On.
II Fifty dollar I charge Madame"
How cheapl" whispered the wife,
"why Mrs. Dresswell paid sixty for
one not near so handsomel ~
The hat was decided upon, and one
article after another was tried on,
discussed, and purchased, until, at
last, Mrs. Markly declared she had
all she needed for that time; and,
stepping across to the table where her
husband sat writing, she reminded
him that Madame Tournure had a
bill which she would like settled.
:" What is the expense Of all this
6nery ?" asked he, rising from the
table.
Here is the bill, Monsieur, only
FIVE hundred dollar"
He took the bill, and run his eye
quickly over; hats, gloves, shawl,
lace, hosiery, etc., etc.; then, taking
his book he drew a. check for the
amount.
The Frenchwoman bowed herself
out, and the husband and wife were
once more alone.
She was in ecstacies with her pur-
.chases, and did not fail to remark
upon the extreme low price at which
Madam T. always accommodated her.
Indeed, everything she had bought
,uac n nrenf bnTnnl7.
".Do you not think SO p said she,
addressing her husband, and for the
first time remarking his thoughtful
manner.
No" replied he, I" I do not think
them cheap. -
There, that just the way +; if I
pay out a few dollars for myself or
the children you feel it; but you
don't stop to think how much save
you by my household arrangements.
Why, by my management, with the
hired help alone, I save more IN
year than it costs to clothe me. But
then, you never think of what l
save"
That is just what what do think
Of" he replied, teaderly drawing his
wife to seat upon his knee. Any
thing" he continued, "is extrava-
CANT, which we do not really need
But When it comes to grinding the
face of The poor, and depriv;ng th-m
of their hard earned rights that we
may make a better appearance in the
world, it becomes IL SIN, and, as such.
must be regarded by Him who has
said - Rob not the poor, becau.e he
is poor; neither oppress the afflicted
in the gate, for the Lord will plead
their cause and spoil the soul of those
that spoiled .bem. :
"What sermon you are preach
ing, just because I did not pay. tina
woman four bits when she had only
earned three! You need dnQt feel un
easy about her; she's got money
enough, dare say these working
people are SO deceptive.
There you are mistaken, love;
they may, sometimes, be deceptive
but, as a general thing, I have not
found them so. The poor woman
whom you to-day deprived of one
fourth of her wages is the widow Of
the man who was killed bya fall from
the scafolaing Of one of my build
ings. He had wosked for me for
years, and I knew him to be honest
and industrious. I had lost sight of
the widow. until to-day, when Col.
Finley, who is on a committee to in-
quire into l.,e wants of the poor and
destitute, called at my Office and
mentioned the fact of a poor woman
living in certain alley, who was.en
tirely destitute of the common COM
forts Of life, and who said her hus-
band was killed By fall from one OF
my buildings. I went around there
tonight on my way home, ahd found
I-her truly in poverty and affection.
Her only child lay dying upon pal
let Of straw. She had no fire, .hav-
ing, as sne said, used the last chip for
the purpose Of making little chick
en- broth for her child, which he, poor
little fellow, was too far gone to taste.
"The dying taper fiickered and
went out soon after my arrival, leav-
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