Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-01

would have enjoyed buying lot OF bead
trash that wouldn't be u cent to any
body. Jane needs guardian if she
fools away her money like that. She
will be in The county honse yet if she
don't lookout. It's lucky that mon do
hold the money, for there's not one
woman in a hundred who keows how to
Use it' II !it45iWh w ~,
For shame, Donald Jarvis! You know
better Look 1T Jerry and Milly Greg,
will you, and say that he makes the best
use of his money. She is at homo with
her parents every night, making her
wages 80 as far as possiblestoward max.
ing tllcm comfortable, while lie is drink
lug and caronsing in tlovillage, wasting
his time ard money, and making a
brute of himself besides. And why does
Mrs. Sarton come to receive her hls-
bands wages herself; simply because he
cannot get hy the saloon with money In
his pocket, ard IL she did not get the
money they would all 80 hungry to bed
tho day after his wages arc paid. And
| believe that that every woman who
earns money hero spends it as tho aver
age of meu, and l have yet to hear ofone
of them being in debt
Mr.. Jarvis knew that he could not
gainsay word bis wife had said, for
they were all true. Luckily he thought
of Jane.
We'll, how much do you suppose Jane
will have left when New Yeaf cohles!s1f
she should getsick how long could she
pay care to such as you havev
1T is not likely she will lay up many
dollars out of a hundred q year; but she
is laying up something better. l think.
Last winter she sent her mother warm
shawl and pairshoes, and to her brother
and tho warm, loving letters they send
her do her more good than twice the
amount Of money i'll tho bank would.
This year she is laying by q number Of
useful and pretty things for them, and
if any misfortune should happen to Jane
they would only be too glad to help her.
well, who do you suppose would help
you if you needed help? said Mr.. Jarvis,
for want of a better question. Mrs. Jar
Wis eyes sparkled angrily as she an
swered: ...''
Nobody. If you should lose your
property to-day, l should be a beggar,
without claim on anyone for help. You
have always held your purse strings SO
tightly that it has been hard enough
to ask for my own necessities, leaving
Others out altogether Many time
dollar or two would have enabled me to
do some poor man or woman untold
good, but although you have always
said that all your property was mine
never could, and cannot now, COM
mand a dollar Of it,
Lucky YOU couldn't, ifsyou wanted
to spend it on bcggars.'
Donald, you know that l would
spend money as wisely as you do. Who
was it that, only last week, gavea poor,
lame beggar five dollars to pay his fare
to Burton, and then saw him throw his
crutches aside and make for the nearest
saloon? Your wife could not do worse,
if trusted with few dollars. You say
that the money is all mine, yet you
spend it as you please, while l cannot
spend dollar without asking you for
it, and telling you what want it for.
Any beggar can get it in the same way!
Christmas you bought presents for us
and expected us to be grateful for them.
A shawl for me of the very color | can
not wear, set of furs for Lucy that
she did not need, drum for Robin
that has been a nuisance ever since,
and lot of worthless toys that were
all broken up in a week. There was
forty or fifty dollars ofmy money just
the same as thrown away, yet when |
ask you to trust me with two dollars a
week, you cannot imagine what use l
have for it and fear it will be wasted.
l an sure l could not spend fifty dollars
more foolishly if l tried to-
Well snapped the proprietor, 4
guess it is my own money, and l can
spend it as please. l guess you'll know
it, too, when you get another present.
oh, it is your money, then. l IN
derstood you to say it was all mine,
and intended to protest against your
spending it SO foolishly. lfit is your
own, of course, you have right to
spend it as you please, but it seems to
me that woman who left parents and