Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-02-09

would have given me more pleasar
yesterday than yonr hundreds O
thousands Of dollars worth Of propert.
did"
mo doubt of that, Mrs, Jarves
You have no idea Of tho value o
money, and would have enjoyed buy
Ing q lot Of bead trash that wouldn't
bc worth u cent 10 anybody. Jan'
needs guardian ifsho fools away hel
monty like that, She will be Ia thu
county house yet ifsho don't look out
Ia lucky that men do hold tho money
for there's not one woman IN q hun
dred who knows how TO use II |"
"For shame, Donald Jarvis! You
know betteri Look at Jerry and
Milly Greg, will you, and say that he
makes the best use Of his money. She
"a At home with her parents every
night, makirg her wages 90 as far az
possible toward making them com.
Portable, while he is carousing In tho
village. wasting bis time and money,
and making n brute Of himself besides
And why does Mira. sarton come to
receive her husbands wages herself /;
simply because he cannot get by the
saloon with money in his pocket, and
Il the did not get the money they
would all 90 hungry to bed the day
after his wages are paid. And ! be-
lieve that every woman who earns
money here spends il as wisely as the
average of men. and ] have yet to
hear Of one oftbem being in debt
Mr.. Jarvis knew that he could not
gainsay word his wife had, SAID, for
they were all true. Luckily he
thought of Jane.
"Well, how much do you suppose
Jane will have left when New Year
comes? /: she should get sick how
long could she pay for care such as
you havei'
at is not likely she will lay up
many dollars out of n hundred year;
but she ia laying up something better.
| think. Last winter she sent her
r.o,her a warm shawl and a plir of
shoes, and to her brother and sister
money to buy new school books, and
the warm loving letters they sent her
do her more good than twice the
amount Of money in the bank would.
This year she is lying by a number OF
useful and pretty things for ,hem,, and
if any misfortune should happen TO
Jane they woull only bs to glad to
hep her."
"Well, who do you suppose would
help you if you needed h'lp?' said
Mr.. Jarvis, for want OF better qles.
tion. Mrs. Jarvis eyes sparkled
angrily as she answered:
"Nobody. Ifyou should lose your
to-day | should be beggar,
without q claim on anyone tor help.
You have always held your pnrse
strings so tightly that il has been
hard enough to ask tor many necessi'
ties, leaving others out altogether.
Many time dollar or two would
have enabled me to do some poor man
Or woman untold good, bpt al
though you have always said that
al your property was mine, | never
could and cannot now command a
dollar Of it, |
"Lucky you couldn't, ifyou wanted
10 spend it on beggars."
"Donald, you know that l would
spend money as wisely as you do
Who was it that, only last week, gave
, poor, lame beggar five dollars to
oay bis fare TO Boston, and then saw
1im throw his crtuches aside and
make fer the nearest saloon ? Your
wife could not do worse iftrusted
yitn a few dollars. You say that the
money is all mine, yet you spend it
Is you please, while I cannot spend
lollar without asking you tor it, and
elling what ! want it for. Any beg
gar can get it 10 the same way -
Christmas you bought Cpresents for us
md expected us to be very grateful
or them. 4 shawl for me of the
,ery color that l cannot wear, set
If furs for Lucy that she did not need,
drum tor Robin that has been a
ever since, and q lot of
worthless toys that We're all broken
ID in a week. There were forty or
iRy dollars Of my money just the
ame as thrown away, yet when ask
,ou to trust me with two dollars a
week you cannot imagine what use l
lave for it, and tear it will be wasted.
am sure l. could not spend fifty
,oll,,s r,.oro foolishly il I tried to-"