Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-01-18
ALLEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND SATURDAY, JANUARY

| lemaDuet
She did not open the parcel at once.
She sat down to do sum in mental
arithmetic. Thirty, five dollars from
| $50 left 9l5; and there were the lin
ings and trimmings, the dress-maker
and Susan James to be provided for.
And Aunt Maria's cloak She had
entirely forgotten the cloak There
was 10 impatience in the fingers that
united the string as she prepared. to
inspect her new dress. She had lost
her enthusiasm over it already.
Horror of horrors! Could this be
her silk as broad ray of sunlight
struck upon it. It Was by no means
Of the same shade as the dress.
Could the dealers have made a mis-
take? But no; she compared a scrap
of the sample which she had chosen
and a bit of which she had withheld
1t was the same. Was it possible that
it could appear so different when seen
in the piece?
But there was no help for it now;
and with that reflection the last ray
of pleasure in her new purchase van
ished from her mind. Not even
Johns Commendation could enliven
her.
why, you're IS pretty as a pic
turer said he the same night when
she had twisted the soft woole1 stuff
about her figure and stood waiting
under the gaslight for his inspection.
The silk she had prudontly a.i
thenkfnllv hen;shed from eiaht. The
dull maroon hue had brigh,ened to
rich crimson under the light.
"And did the money hold out o.
"Y-as." But the reply came
family, and Mrs. Jupe, running in the
next morning, found nor friend poring
over the "supplement' to q fashion
paper, her smooth forehead drawn ia
/ to two dreadful wrinkles, while gho
.tudied with despairing eye this sheet
Of lines a1d angles, bicycles and ia
sane rara.ielog ms, hopaIossly con
taaed and lnextricably entangled.
They are patterns p said Mrs. Fay
as tboqgh she would have added,
Gould yea ever believe it "I
thought, perhaps, l might cut my
dress myself"
Goodness, child, did you ever DO
such Q thing
| mo but people de-
"They don't begin with handsome
suit, hovever Do you want to spoil
ito ruio the whole dress, besides
wasting the material and the money
you have spent for it?"
The last Was an argumont, and
lLra Fay laid by her sheet of hiero-
glyqhi2s with a sigh, and prepared to
reason, as Mrs Jupo called it, by ar
ranging to taEo the latter's dress
maker off her hands for one day,
/ Hbioh Mrs. Jupe desired to spend cut
Of town. Perhaps she could make
up for this expense bycutting off two
or three Of Susan Jane days.
! The day and the dress-maker came.
"It is good, heavy piece Of silk, "
said the latter, testing it between
thumb and forefngor.
1t was. Il weighed like lead upon
Mrs Fay's mind. The dross-m&ker
laid il against the wco!len goods,
open her lips, then closed them again
prudenily, But Mrs. Fay saw the
movement. "No, it did net match,
Had not Mrs. Jopa already remarked
1t? Aad was not the maroon turned
to purple by the proximity OF TINS
silk, as any ono could see?"
"I should have thought you would
have bought American silk. They
usually offer it At Morton q Brier'9 to
make up with these heavy goods It
wears SO much better, and COST less,
you know, by good deal; being 50
much wider, too il cuts to letter a.
vanta@'."
1T came from New York" said
poor, crest-falIen Mrs. Fay. But
there was no pride in her voice.
Miss Nudge was measuring it off
frcm ker nose to the end of her fin
gers, Light yards LAag will
never do it. Not if you take off
three-quartera for q bonnet and fare
The skirt. 1t will not trim it hand
aomely.'.,
y thought i d large pattern" fal-
tered Mra. Fay
"Woll, yos,--or American silk. But