Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1877-08-16

! fer dinner, too! That's just your idea OF
| economy. Rex, Take one OF my beautiful
| tolettes into that steamy, greasy place
where dinner has just been concocted
keep, perhaps. the breast of a bird and lose
breadth OF silk, You put me in mind of
old Tom at his cider barrel. saving at the
| spile aud spilllng at the bung."
Very inclegsnt. my dear, and
| mean nothing of the sort. IL | were a
! housekeeper,I should go IN the morning"
My morning toilets are just as pretty"
"Oh, hang your toilets | should go in
in the morning and take my inventory and
NV measures together. And il the servants
knew you were coming daily 10 perform
! that act OF superintendence. it would make
the difference of a couple OF dinners week
| TO US"
I'D rather take In sewing. shouldn't
dare 10 look them iu the face. The idea OF
| grudging my servants
"Oh. Glars, you're perfectly hopeless :"
then Rex wound up. And at that cried,
and OF course then he had 10 console me;
and II was a great deal nicer than II We
hadit quarreled.
I'm sure ! want to economiEe," | said.
81 wear silks. but KITTY makes them; and
| think they're cheapest in the long run.
and one feels much more comfortable.
Aud then YOU always used to like to see
me In silks
"And SO do now. OF course | do. II
isn't that would deprive You sf a single
triie, Clara, my darling. for anything in all
the world; nothing {, too good for you.
rs only-only-Why, you never scrutiu-
iZe an account.
Il deal with honest people. Id be
ashamed to
We'll. the consequence IS that you dotit
know the % AMI tho
tradesmcn wnack on Say price they choose.
Now what # We should lose our income by
any hocus pocus?-suc things have hap.
pened What should do
do? Why. d. what other people do.
Everybody seems to get along. Creditors
allow YOU something. don't thcy--so much
day" Aud then Rex burst out in great
laugh. and cried. You are ccrtain. iucor-
| rigible, you lovely liltIe IDIOT" And w~
wcre OF for drive. and that was the end
| OF that lesson.
Every once IN while Reginald used to
| have one OF these ht, OF rvouumy H..
mother would say To- me, when ,hc came
! over, "Acquic>cc in it; agree with hun do
your best 10 meet hi, wishes when tie III
i on; he'll soon get all hc wants oi it,"
/ And - he did
on know our little place on the Naus
! iuog Beach: Well. il l. =" lovely that Sc
determined 10 make it our permanent home
and 60 To the city and hotel for two OF
I three of the worst Wiuter months but give
NJ the city house and have only one r.-
tablishm-nt. Gen. Durccau's /. at q - cliii.
and h" lives t4ere all the wear round and
Mrs. Gleison's directly adjoining. and We
/ are down below on the Long Beach. where
| don't know how many ships have come
ashore, and no end OF iloisam aud jct,Am.
I a Pow call. -. a f.sI..
! bottles holding letter.; dnr wood half
ground to powder; once picked up a
| sailors cap, and once, do YOU believe. a
cradle with a lit,le baby Ia It, sound asleep.
( aud rocking so swccily on the waves
| did so want to keep IL; but of course
mother had to turn up. rescued too. on the
other side OF General Durceau's clifi. Well
/ one afternoon Rex and were walking on
/ the Long Beach. making believe look Tor
( the quicksand. IL was after diuuer.timc-
we had expected Colonel M'ManusA but
lie hadn't come-and OF course was nice
! ly dressed. | always do dress for Rex .bu:
/ had taken unusual pains to-day. for Rex
had some business reasons for desiring 10
make an uncommonly good lnpres ion on
| the colonel. The colonel WAS securing a
! charter for some tremendous undert aking
/ -tunneling Cotopaxi or the Atlantic. or
/ or something OF the sort, sure To make the
| everlasting fortune OF all included. and
/ Rex wished 10 be included and the colon
| el was SO irascibe. and SO Important and
4 ponpous and naughty, that we wanted he
| should have the best OF everything; so in
/ his absence amagnlficent dinner was spoil
ed, and my superb toilette lost. had new
er worn my dress before, either: il WAS
| just the last and lovlest shade OF royal
| purple, melted amethyst. II was dead.
ened and halt covered with black lace. nv
| best and dearest, fine a. a cobweb. or
! course II was no dress for beach-walking
! Let u have Il i've minutes stroll" said
/ Rex. "Herhaps the old blohe went Ia he
other station; I'll send Terence round -
/ and had just thrown on my scarf and
/ gathered INV dress out of harms way-the
/ beach couldn't hurt my gold cable chain
nor my pink corals, born OF the sea Itself
! aud had run after him. We hadn't taken
ten steps before found that the lii was on
and that he had il bad. The fact was that
| comfortable as We were. Rex had become
| discontented among richer people. and was
nursing the idea that he should like 10 be
| q millionaire; and there were some excel
| lent schemes and chances for capital that
he knew about, and it vexed him TO think
| be had no capital to spare; and he dwelt
! on il and dwelt ola il. IL seemed 10 him 50
| ignoble TO be living on his grandfather,
entalled estate. and to be paking nothing
| of his own and as we spent every penny
every year, he decided that the one way TO
| get any capital was TO save il, and il he
| could only force me into u beginning. the
I thing would be done BY natural momentum
But there-could he change the spots on
| the leopard:
See here" said he. that afternoon a.
we walked; ''look at that Enough wood
| 10 hn 81
shore. and nobody picking mp a stick OF it. :"
ITS nothing bat chips said |.
"Chipsi Z" said he. Let me tell you,
chips make as good blaze as heart can
| wish. We could burn these chips in ev
cry CRATE we have; and some of them are
goody pieces"
And 90 without our beautiful sea-coal
fire."
Our ssa-coal costs us thirty dollars
ton. and these chips.cost nothing. | sup
pose if they cost thirty dollars a ton. ships
would be chartered to bring them from the
ends OF the earth AS il is. Terence could
be gathering them when he has nothing
else to do. And as for beauty, Clara.
| should like 10 hear any one compare the
beauty OF any coal fire with that of Drift
wood blaze, rolling all manner of splendid
alkaline-dyed flashes Of color up the Chin
ney.'
"Oh, well" said l. .if you think 1t will
be nice to have baskets of these poverty.
stricken chips standing round the hearths,
making no end OF dust and litter, the fire
fed every two minutes. or else all out and
the little sparks swapping every where.
you'd better try it. There's no excuse for
n wood fire anyway. unless it's OF whole
logs, with a tremendous core of red heat.
in huge chimney big enough TO warm
castle"
but they'd certainly burn in the kitchen
stoves"
I'D like to hear you asking Nora to burn
them instead of her Lackawanna and Frank
lin. They'd have time to do nothing else
in the kitchen but feed the fire. 'Tisn't
even In the right shape for kiDdlings there"
Clara, l believe you disdain the very
idea Of econOmiRing any where
i don't see any economy in it. If 1t
were necessary, it would be verv disagree
able necessity. But if we can't afford TO
buy our coal. we had better shut up the
house. and dismiss the servants. and live
in q fap oh 40; IL