The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02
THE GREAT BAZAR IN FREEyILLE.

They were going to have bazar i'll
that town. There was a good deal of
distress among the poor, for the panic
came, and bad times came, and the
manufacturers failed, and those who
did not reduced their working force, and
n great many operatives We're out of
employ, and were wanting help. Econ
omy and retrenchment were the order of
the day. The ladies, some of them, did
their own sewing. Some did with but
one servant; some did without any
They kept their daughters out of school
to retrench school expenses, and the
academy dismissed one teacher, young
lady with an invalid mother. The ladies
who kept house managed very closely
indeed, and deserved much credit. Mrs.
Millyun concluded not TO buy the ten
dollar silk she longed for, and took one
for four dollars. Even more, she got a
friend to smuggle it from Europe, and
it cost even less.
Everybody said: "What good ex-
ample of economy Mrs. Millyun sets us .
There it is not at all necessary, only it
makes it easier for us to do Ii who are
obliged to do it. "
But Mrs. Jones, the dressmaker,
missed the patronage of Mrs. Millyun,
and thought that her work, which had
always been good enough before, was
good enough now. But there was no
use to employ so many hands if she was
not going to have the best custom, and
all of it, too. SO two of her sewing-g girls
were paid off weeks before the usual dull
season; and even then it was not easy,
with her sick husband and lame little
boy, to bring her profits up to the eX-
pense point, let alone saving anything.
Then Judge Rochester set an example
of economy His barn needed repairs;
but, although material was low and labor
plenty, it was no time to have extra ex-
penses, 50 he let it go. So poor Duff
tales little boy had no overcoat, and staid
out of school 1t soon became obvious
that something would have to be done
for the poor to keep the wolf from their
doors, and "the bazar" was the talk of
everybody. The tender glow of benevo-
lence pervaded society. Judge Roches-
ter gave $50 with warm feeling round
his heart that did him credit. Mrs. Mill
yum gave hundred toward paying ex-
penses of getting tup; and so on through
society.
The young ladies worked early and
late over fancy work and the pretty cos
TUNES in which they were to appear at
the bazar. The wisest economy was
practiced. Everybody did everything
herself that could be done by unprofes-
sional hands; and when necessity called
in skilled labor it was always expected
that handsome deduction should be
made, az it was " charity" Sometimes
the employees grumbled, but dared not
offend rich patrons: and so they did it.,
even though grudgingly.
"What blessed thing it is" said
Mrs. George Allen, her fine eyes suffused
with moisture, that we are going on so
well with the bazar Everybody seems
so willing Thus, Mrs. Johnson finds
time to help us, even with her seven
children; and Mrs. Tribolite has lent us
her grandmother's brocade for our
Marie Antoinette,' and Mrs. Millyun
has given so much TO bear our expenses.
We shall not be obliged to hire anything
done scarcely"
{" Humph" said Miss Mary Bryant,
who was Mrs. George Aliens single sis
Ter, anu Hhu 1O,OOO year Oh Her own anu
no questions asked. AS L said before,
Humph !" said Mary Bryant.
"Who makes the coffee this year," she
asked.
"Oh, we are going to do that ourselves.
Mrs. O'Lay asked us S2 night, and we
are going to save that, and Mrs. Brown
said she would do il. "
"Tll see to the coffee, remarked Miss
Mary Bryant, dryly.
"What you make coffee What die
you say about cooking, yesterday r.
4" Not at all. I'm going to pay Nora
OLay 81 night for coffee and frying
oysters. Her husband is out of work
and she has six children. For the foui
nights of the bazar it will be quite lift
and she will come in at the death and
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