Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-09-04
THE HERALD.
MRS. FAY'S BARGAIN.

for your new dress
Fifty? Then you have really
made it fifty? What q good John !
1 shall be able to save enough out of
it to buy Aunt Maria real nice
New Years present. There are very
good cloaks, shaggy and warm,
marked down to $40 and Sl2 at
Morton & Briefs, and l am dis
tressed Sunday after Sunday 10 see
her walk into church in that old
shawl. | could sraw the pattern of
it with my eyes shut, and ! know
that nothing but pcrversiy keeps it
from breaking away on her poor
sharp shoulders
We'll, do as you please; only
make the most you can of the mon
ey. Fifty dollars does not grow on
every bush in these times, and l
should hardly have felt able to give
it you but thst Morton has been
looking at one of our steam heaters
for his store, though some par les
down iD Hartford offered him one
at a discount. So buy the cloak of
him. by all means, if you get one.'
Little Mrs. Fay turned the bills
over and over in her hand. She had
scarcely heard her husbands last
words. Il was enough that he could
afford to give her the money and
that it was hers to spend. He was
her conscience in regard to money
matters. With the intricacies of
business che had nothing TO do
Should she run around to Mrs Jupe's
at once and talk it over, and find
out exactly how to send to New
York for samples of dress goods ?
The Jupes were stylish people
who had recently removed into the
neighborhood, having bought the
very large lawn and the very small
cottage with q stable in the rear,
which gave an air OF elegance to the
street of the pretty New England
town where the Fays lived. Between
Mrs. Jupe and little Mrs. Fay the
most intimate relations had been es.
tablshed. They ran back and forth
at all hours, blind gate having
been discovered, at the foot of Mrs.
Fsy's tiny flower garden, which
opened directly upon Mrs. Jupe's
side lawn.
The latter had already advised in
regard to the new dress. You will
never think of buying it here;' she
had said. Morton & Brier's dress
goods are 80 common Everybody
in town dresses the same-like
mourners at funeralI Why not
run down to New York and buy
something made up? You would
save it in your dressmaker's BILL
Run down to New York Mrs.
Fay regarded a visit to that metrop.
oils as the event of lfetime-to be
ardentiy desired, bat scarcely to be
hoped for. And as for dressmaker,
one day for such fuGctionary, for
the purpose of basting and trying
on with three or tour more from
Susan James, who went out for rs
cents-and was thankful to get that
in these hard times-was the limit
of her desires.
well, let me see you m ght send
down to any OF the large retail
stores for samples and order from
there afterward. You know they
each keep clerk for nothing in the
world but TO put up the samples
And Mrs. Fay had gone home fill
ed with desire TO do this. To send
to New York, to the envy of her
less well.informed neighbors To
appear in a dress unlike anything
displayed in the town. She was not
ordinarily vain woman, but Mrs.
Fay's ambition took fire at this
spark of q suggestion. But Johns
countensnce assumed doubtful OK.
preston when the plan was spread
out before him.
Il don't know about that he
said, slowly. DO as you would like
to be done by. is my motto and how
should | like 1t to have verybody
in town run off TO Hartford or New
to buy the goods 1 offer for SALE
Patronize home institutions, Annie;
spend your money where you make
it, and help to build up your own
town, | say. Why, the country is
going to ruin for this same reason
Nothing in America will do for peo,
pie, unless the maker is shrewd
enough to brand 1t with a foreign
mark. We spend all our time and
strength in gathering dollars to be
sent out of the country. And what
do we get for themP A lot of French
fripperies and manufactured articles
which need only to stand side by
side with our own to show their in
feriority.'
Yes, John, but-the dress' Elk.
ports and imports are matters to be
settled by graver heads, or to settle
themselves.
Buy it at Morton q Briers. They
trade with me, and l should like to
turn my money into their hands,
But their goods are 80 common
John. And we ell dress alike-like
mutes at funeral
Like whatY John Fay burst in
TO loud laugh. You are dear lit
tie woman, Annie, but you never
originated that remark. | don't be-
lieve | like that STYLE he added,
after pause. But do as you please,
dear
IL YVES hard to say mo- to this lit.
wife.
AT least you can buy the cloak at
Morton Il Brier's and be sure and
make the money go as far as you
can
q will, John; it shall 60 as far as
New York + she replied, with hap
py laugh. throwing her arms around
his neck and giving him an enthusi-
astic hug.
She wrote her letter to New York
at Mrs. Jape's dictation, and the
samples came in due time.
John turned them over quizzical.
ly. Couldn't you judge better of
the color and quality to see them 10
whole piece, rather than in such
little scrap as this p
tO what a ailIr Tnhn OF onrrsa