The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-12-16
THE GREAT BAZAAR in
FREEVILLE.

l. AA W AO1A DAAh a. Il IN
FREEVlLLE.
They were going to have d bazaar in
that town. There was good deal OF
distress among the poor, for the panic
came, and hard times came, and some
manufacturers failed, and those who
did not reduced their working force
and a great many operatives were out
of employ, and were wanting help
Economy and retrenchment were the
order of the day. The ladies, some OF
them, did their own sewing. Some did
with but one servant: some did with.
out any. They kept their daughters
out of school to retrench school OK.
penses, and the academy dismissed one
teacher, a young lady with an invalid
mother. The ladies who kept house
managed very closely indeed. and de-
served much credit. Mrs. Millyun con-
cluded not to buy the ten-dOllar silk
she lOnged for, and took one for four.
Even more, she got friend to SNUG
gle it from Europe, and i: cost even
less.
Everybody said: What good exam
pie of economy Mrs. Millyun sets us
There it is not at all necessary, only it
makes 1t easier for us to do it who are
obliged to do it,
But Mrs. Jones, the dressmaker,
missed the patronage of Mrs. Millyun,
and thought that her work, which had
always been good enough before. was
good enough now. But there was no
use to employ so many hands if she
was not going to have the best custom,
and all of it, too. So two of her sew
ing-girls were paid off weeks before the
usual dull season; and even then it was
not easy, with her sick husband and
lame little boy, to bring her profits up
to the expense point, let alone saving
anything.
Then Judge Rochester set an exam
pie of economy. His barn needed re.
pairs; but although material was low
and labor plenty, it was no time to
have extra expenses; so he let it go.
So poor Dufftale's little boy had no
OvercOat, and staid out Of school. 1t
soon became obvious that something
would have to be done for the poor to
keep the wolf from their doors, and
the bazaar was the talk of everybody.
The tender glow of benevolence per-
vaded society. Judge Rochester gave
fifty dollars, with warm feeling
around his heart, that did him credit.
Mrs. Millyun gave hundred toward
paying expenses of getting it up; and
30 on through society.
The young ladies worked early and
late over fancy work and the pretty
costumes in which they were to ap-
pear at the bazaar. The wisest econ
Omy was practiced. Everybody did
everything herself that could be done
by unprofessional hands; and when
necessity called in skilled labor, it was
always expected that a handsome de-
ductiOn should be made, as it was a
charity Sometimes the employees
grumbled, but dared not offend rich
patrons; and so they did it, even though
grudgingly.
What blessed thing it is,' said Mrs.
Allen, her fine eyes suffused with mOis-
ture, that we are getting on so well
with the bazaar! Everybody seems 80
willing. Thus, Mrs. Johnson finds
time to help US, even with her seven
children; and Mrs. Tribolite has lent
us her grandmother's brocade for our
Marie Antoinette;' and Mrs. Millyun
has given much to bear our expenses
We shall not be obliged to hire any
thing done SCARCELY
sHumphp said Miss Mary Bryant
who was Mrs George Aliens single
sister, and had Ave thousand year of
her own, and no questions asked. AS
/ said before, 'Humphl said Mary Bry-
ant.
who makes the coffee this year {
she asked.
'Oh, we are going to do that our.
selves. Mrs. O'Lay asked us two dol.
lars night, and we are going to save
that, and Mrs. Brown said she would
do it.
I'll see to the Coffee remarked Miss
Mary Bryant, dryly.
What! you make coffeeP What did
you say about cooking yesterday
Not at all. I'm going to pay Nora
O'Lay two dollars night for coffee
and frying oysters. Her husband is
out of work, and she has six children
For the four nights of the bazaar il
will be quite lift, and she will come
'in at the death and help clear up
We'll, of course, If you pay out OF
yeur own pocket, it is nobOdy's busi
ness, but the Relief Society won't pay
any bills
Generally speaking, 1 pay my own,
said Miss Bryant. What are the girls
going to make, this afternoon, wher
they come here?
Dress dolls. There's great deaI
made on dolls, IL you understand IL
II you dress them cheaply and showily
and sew on the clothes, you more thar
quadruple the cost in the profit. Dom
you seeP'
Il understand. l was sacrificed II
such dolls in my childhood. Films.
tarletan and spangles. and to cut {
stitch was to sacrifice whole wardrobe
And the doll had on nothing to speal
of during the rest of her natural exis
tence. Do these young ladies propos
to immediate the Juveniles also OIL tn
alter of economyY
What q queer girl you arel / don
know what you meanl Of cours