The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-08-20
iey were all true. Luckily he thought

Ii she should get sick how long coulC
she pay for such care rs you have ?"
alt is not likely that she will lay uI
many dollars out Of hundred year
but she is laying up something better,
think. Last winter she sent her mother
n warm shawl and pair Of shoes, and
to her brother and sister new school
books and the warm, loving letter:
they send her do her more good than
twice the money in the bank would.
This year she is laying away a number
Of useful and pretty things for them, and
il any misfortune should happen to Jane
they would only be too glad to help
her."
"Well, who do you suppose would
help if you needed helps" said Mr..
Jarvis for want Of a better question.
Mrs. Jarvis eyes sparkled angrilya she
answered him.
Nobody II you should loose your
property to-day should become beg
gar. You have always held your purse
strings so tightly that il has been hard
enough to ask for my own necessities,
leaving others out altogether. Many a
time dollar or two would have enabled
me TO do some poor man or woman un-
told good, but although you said that
all your property was mine, never
could and cannot now command one
single dollar Of it"
"I.ucky you couldn't if YOU wanted
to spend il on beggars."
"Donald, YOU know that would
spend money as wisely as you do. Who
was il that, only last week, gave poor
lame beggar five dollars to pay his fare
TO Burlington, and then saw him throw
his crutches away 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, you
spend as You please, while 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 some presents and
expected us to I've grateful for them. A
shawl for me the very color | cannot
wear, set Of furs for Lucy she did not
need, drum for Robin that has been n
nuisance ever since, and lot Of worth
less toys that were broken up in one
week. There was forty or fifty dollars
OF my money just the same as thrown
away /; yet when asked you to trust me
with five dollars a week you cannot i'm
agine what use have for it, and fear it
will be wasted. am sure l could not
spend fifty dollars more foolishly il l
tried it."
"Well,". snapped the proprietor, al
guess it is my own money, and l can
spend it as / please. l guess you'll
know it too when you get another pres
cnt.
"Oh, il is your money then, under
stood you to say it was all mine, and
pretended to protest against your spend
ing il so foo.ishly. II it is your own,
Of course you have right to spend it as
you please but il seems to me that n
woman who left mother, brothers, sis
tiers and her friends, to make home for
you among strangers, woman who has
given her whole life to you for fifteen
years, may be looked upon with as much
favor as you give to bcggars, who are
very likely to be imposters. know you
very seldom turn them off without help.
Perhaps | would be more successful il
appeared to you as beggar. | might
say: Kind sir, please allow me Of your
abundant means small pittance for my
comfort II is true, I have enough to
eat, and do not suffer for clothing 4; but
although work for my master from
morning till night, and il his children
happen to be sick, from night till morn
ing again, yet he does not pay me rs
much as he does his cook, and I am
often greatly distressed for want Of a
trifling sum which he would not mind
giving TO perfect stranger. The other
day when he was away from home | had
to 60 to the next station to see a dear
friend who was i'll, and not having a
dollar Of my own / was obliged to bor-
row the money from his cook. I was
so mortified | And not long since the
berry woman came with such nice ber-
ries to sell, and my little girl, who was
not very well, wanted some very much,
but ] didn't have even FIVE cents to pay
for handful for her. Yesterday, friend
came to me to assist in work Of charity.
Il was a worthy object and / longed so
much to give little money for so good
a purpose, but, although the wife Of a
rich man, had no money. or course
! might ask my husband for money and
if told him what wanted OF it, and
he approved Of my purpose, and was in
good humor, he would give il to me,
but sir, il is terribly slavish to do so,
even il / could run to him every time |
wanted anything. People say ! am a
fortunate woman because / am rich ;
but / often envy the factory girls their
ability to earn and spend their own
money. And sometimes l get so wild
thinking Of my helplessness that il il
were not for my children think would
drop into the river and end it ALL"
"Nettie Nettie What are you say
ingl" cried the startled husband at last,
for the far away look in her eyes, as il
she did not see him, but was looking to
some higher power to help her, touched
his pride il il did not his heart, for he
had good bit Of pride in a selfish sort
Of way. He was proud to be able to
support his family as well as he did
He was proud that when his children
needed new shoes he could tell his wife
to take them to Crispen's and get what
they needed. He did il with royal
flourish. He was not one Of those stin-
gy kind He liked to spend money ;
and when Nettie, who was once the