The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-01-28
0But they cost twice as much p said

"Bat Trey cost twice as much" said
Aunt Mat, with open eyes.
II don't care :" exploded Aunt L.
cy, defiant OF economy. They're
: lovely"
''Fll get some patterns" said ida,
rapturOusiy and her next days ex-
+. petition procured a score OF snips from
aaif the stores in the place.
Z All that day Aunt Mat was going
round the house with small scraps o.
wet calico over her fingers that she
was just Washing or just drying and
these were pressed between handker
CHIEFS, and those between newspapers
and others with an iron, and you
couldn't open book but what one
I tumbled out and they were every
one bright and beautiful when she
began, and everyone was faded and
CHASTITY when she had done. 81 de-
clare | could cry" said Aunt Mat.
sit seems IS if people had left off ma
king anything good. When we were
{ young caiicOs We're beautiesn
when we were young, Matilda ~
said Aunt Lucy. lam young now."
"YOu are fifty-three years old, Luz
cy Martin, if that's young" said
Aunt Mat, with uncOmmRn aerimO-
ny, for her feelings were perturbed by
I the calico.
That's young when you expect to
| live to ninety-three.."
81 don't know what you found your
expectations on"
"Chiefy Oa-my life-insurAnce, that
/ have to pay a. couple of hundred
Z 4 80
\ luck 10 have TO psy for forty years
J to come for the benefit of two uns
grateful chits who are unwilling to
hing up 4 pattern OF caliac from q
shop for me ~
"I'd think you'd be ashamed of
yourself, Aunt Lucy" cried Ida,
bursting into tears
''I certainly should, said Aunt Mat
with increasing severity, as Aunt
| Lucy tossed her head. (Oh, the cam
paign of the calico never was peacea-
ble one y anybody else" said Aunt
Mat, "wOuld feel It boon to be a.
lowed to live and pay the premium
for forty years. But that's side is
sue. DON'T be a baby, Ida. There,
wipe your eyes. I must say / don't
see what Pm going to do about this
calico"
"Why. don't you get French cali
co. auntie ?" said 1. "They're pretty
as the English, and fast cOlOrs too"
"But they cost so much ~
"rhree times as mueh," pronounced
Aunt Lucy, with vigOr.
"But then they're three times as
pretty, and they last three times as
long. There's real economy in a
French print. The one you wear
now, those you've worn for four
years, are French"
"I don't know,D said Aunt Mat
'You might bring me up some pat
terms"
"We'lI go down together" SAID
Ida, wiping her tears with her long
curl, ."and We'll take dg market
basket, real hamper. aud Well
bring up bit of every French print
in town.
"I know what I shall DO" exploded
Aunt Lucy here-"I know what /
shall do, very decidedly !" But she
didn't say, because here Squire Mel
bourne was ushered IN by Bridget,
and Ida ran away to prepare for the
concert to which Lawrence had in
vited her, and for the Glory OF which
was to dress her lovely hair. 81
wish his name wasn't Frink," said
Ilda.
The next dag We Brought to Aunt
Mat the required specimens of the
French prints, and they were just as
exquisite as poet could dream of.
'Ips a great deal TO pay for calico,
though, after all-fOrty cents a yard"
said Aunt Mat.
"Well, what makes you then ?"
said 1.
you've lot of good csilcoes now,
Adding one every fall in this way,
you'll leave as many gowns as Queen
Elizabeth. Forty cents yard would
almost buy a tamise."
SIT does seem poor economy to pay
forty for q calico when sixty buys
pretty reps" said she."
"And seventy-five uOlerable CASH
mere" said Ida.
but they don't wash.u
mines been Gnshed ana dyed
too"
. "Cdn you get a cashmere for that ?
L wonder what sort. Would you
mind bringing me pattern ?"
"Iwould great deal rather get one
fo that than of Calico" said Ida.
And just then Aunt Lucy came into
the room with a bundle.
HThat's what I have DONE" said
she. "And there's D1y calico over and
done with. Mary Kerr was going up
to the city and 1 trusted her to choose
me one of those advertised at eight
cents. And that's it. She saw some
at six and quarter, as good but not
so pretty, and too light"
Aunt Mat opened the bundle thrown
down.
"Fhat almost decides me on the
cashmere, said she. ''YOu can give it
TO BSjdget to scrub in, Lucy it's fit
for nothing else. l never saw any
thing uglier."
sit COSTUME just one dollar" cried
Aunt Lucy. MARY Kerr thinks it
pretty, and l am very well satisfied
with it, and l shall DO no such thing"
she said, cOherently.
''Very well. But you let me see the
cashmere patterns, girls, and perhaps
I can make my old calicOes do"
Yet, when we brought up the CASH
meres, it must be confessed they were
not of the finest. sit is q pity to pay
so much, and not pay little more
and.get something better;' said Aunt
Mat. Bnt we were quite prepared for
her, and l took from my porte-mon-
naie on the instant some other pieces.
"rhese are a dollar fifty" said 1,
"and really worth the money"
so they are" said Aunt Mat.
"HOw cheap dress goods are Yet it
seems an extravagance-"
81 don't know why" said Aunt
Lucy, always ready for the other side
"YOu haven't had nice dress since
the one you wore to Mrs. Melbourne's
funeral, couple of years ago."
HWell, l haven't needed it. Ny
wardrobe is all need if / were to
start for France tomorrow
"Then what makes you get any
thing else at all ?'
"Oa, a person grows so tired of the
same dresses and a variety is good
economy. But I don't know about
this, girls. There's your Aunt Lucy,
cutting out her own calico, and I not
only shouldn't venture to cut for N.Y.
self anything so nice, but should be
paying for q single yard of mine more
than she pays for the whole of hers r'
"With no comparison between
them" said 1.
''I know it. A dollar and 9 half
saw silks advertised for that"
beauties at two and half.u
''I wish 1 could see them. I DO so
hate to go shopping I'il keep these
patterns. But suppOsing you should
bring up some bits of silk ? You
needn't mind stopping at two and q
half. 1 should like to look at some
nice ones. And when you are buying
silks it is the best economy to get
nice. If it wasn't such an undertak-
ing I'd go down myself"
SOB, we'd like to, Aunt Mat" cried
Ida. "Pm going to look at silks on
my own account. L Isuppose yoH want
black.n
fare the c1lored ones dearer? What,
cheaper? Well, you might bring me
some of DOth. 1t won't do any hurt
to see them. And should like pref
ty dOve-eOlor'
Aunt Lucy laughed, and cut out her
cores with great flourish of her seis-
sors.
'Now, Aunt Lucy, let those laugh
that wiD,n said Ida. "Aunt Mats
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