Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-03-11

his farm. and she is so happy that she car
do so. Even Jane, the kitchen girl, ha,
more freedom than [, for out of her owr
money she is laying by presents for hel
relatives. and will send them Christmas
as much for her own pleasure as theirs
I esterday an Indian woman was at tn,
house with such handsome bead work Il
sell, and although wanted some none,
so much, had not dollar! I felt like
crying when Jane brought in her week I
wages and bought half dozen articles
that I wanted so much. You often say
that all you have is mine, but five dollars
would have given me more pleasure yester
day than your hundred of thousand dol
lars worth of property
''No doubt of that, Mrs. Jarvis. GU
have no idea Of the value Of money, and
would have enjoyed buying lot of head
trash that would not be worth a cent to
anybody. Jane needs guardian if she
fsols az her money like that. She will
be in the county poor house yet, if she
don't look out. 1t is very lucky. indeed
that men do hold the money, for there is
not one woman in hundred who knows
how to use it!'' a4..8g Tia paai :*,a
For shame Donala Jarvis! You know
better. Look at Jerry and Milly Greg
will you, and say that he makes the best
use Of his money. She is at home with
her parents every night, making them
comfortable, while he is carohsing in the
village, wasting his time and money, and
making brute of himself besides. And
why does Mrs. Sarton come to receive her
husbands wages herself? Simply because
he can not get by the saloon with money in
his pocket, and if she did not get the mon.
ey they would all go hungry to bed after
| his wages were raid Aud believe that
every woman that earns any money here.
spends it as wisely as the average man
and have yet to hear of one of them be-
ing in debit
Mr.. Jarvis knew that he could not gain
say word his wife had said, for it was
all true. Luckily he thought IF ane..
"Well, how much dc you suppose Ja'e
will have left when New Year comes? Il
she would get sick how long could she pay.
for such care as you have?"
ut is not likely she will lay up many
dollars out of hundred year; but she is
laying up something better, think. L St
winter she sent her m ,ther warm shawl
and pair of shoes, and to her brother and
| sister, new school books. and the warm
loving letters they send her do her more
good than twice the amount of money in
the bank would. This year she is laying
by a 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,
"W.ll, who do you suppose would help
you if you needed help y" said Mr.. Jarvis,
for want of better question.
J Mrs. Jarvis eyes sparkled angrily as
she answered: -s.sss.s5 4. 3 .,.s
Nobody. If you should lose your pr p
erty to-day should be a beggar, without
claim on any one for help. You have
always held your purse-strings so Tight,
that it has been hard enough to ask for
my own necessities, leaving others out al
together Manga time a 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 proper
ty was mine, never could and cannot
now command dollar of it,
LUCKY you could not, if you wanted to
spend it on beggars."' siai
"Donald, you know that would spend
money as wisely(as you do. Who was it
that. only last week, gave poor lame beg
gar five dollars to pay his way 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 cannot spend dollar without ask
ing you for it and telling what l want il
for. Any beggar can get it the same way !
On Christmas you bought presents for us
and expected us to be thankful. A shaw
for me, of the very color I cannot veal;
a set of furs for Lucy, that she did moi
need; drum for Robin, that has been 4
nuisance ever since, and q lot of WORTHLESS
toys that are broken up IN a week. There
were forty or fifty dollars of my money
just the same as thrown away, yet when
ask you to trust me with two dollars
week, you cannot imagine what use have
for it, and fear it will be wasted. l an
sure could not spend fifty dollars more
foolishly if I trled.''
well, snapped the proprietor, 81 guess
it is my own money. and L Can spend it a.
tlease. l guess you will know it, too
when you get another present.
ooh, it is your money then. / under
stood you to say it was all mine, and pr :
tended to protest against my spending it
so foolisily. If 1T is your own, of course
you have right to spend 1t as you please
but it seems to me that woman who lef'
parents and brothers and sister, and all
her friends, to make home for you among
strangers-a woman who has given up hel
whole lie to you for fifteen years, nigh
be looked upon with as much favor as you
give beggars, who are likely to be impos-
tors. know that yon seldom turn them.
off without help. Perhaps would be
more successful if appealed to you as
beggar. l might say, kind sir, please al
low me, out of your abundant means, a
small pittaDce for my comfort. 1t is true.
I bave enough to eat, and Go not suffer fol
clothing; but, although / work for my
master from morning to night, aud, if his
children happen to be SICK, from night un-
til morning again. yet he does not pay me
as much as he does his cook, and ! am Of
ten greatly distressed for want of triflinp