Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-04-13

Mrs. Symington, and she produced the
twenty-five dollars, all in gold half eagles
with the exultant feeling of one who has
picked precious diamond out of the dust
But | should wish you to feel that had
dealt fairly with you in matter like this y
| well, 1 hahn It no reason to complain, y
said Aunt Grizzly. ''Some folks fancies
cnany. l don't. A plates plate to me,
ana cups cup, and you're kindly well
come to my set if you've took notion to
It,"
Mrs. Symington went home the next
cay, through whirlwind of snow. having
oeen fed upon pork and sausages, sausages
ana pork, at every meal since her arrival,
ana retaining very vivid recollection OF
the Maine winds and tempests. !.
i don't think I'd 20 back there again
even for set of old china said Mrs. Sym.
lngton. as she seated herself on the velvet
cushions of the palace-car, and shrank
shiveringly inside of her seal dolman and
deece-lined fur gloves. Aunt Grlzzel will
never die natural death she'll be blown
away, like Mother Hubbard"
But all these petty tribu]ations were
| forgotten as thing out of mind on the
the brilliant January morning on which.
III front of the sea-coal fire in her own
coy drawing-room. she unpacked the
coarse wooden box wherein were conceal
ed the priceless treasures of Aunt Grizzly
Grumpton's china.
Don't touch them. Stanhope," said
she, with small shrek of dismay. "Men
are so dreadfully careless. Oh, here they
are on top, all wrapped in separate pieces
of paper"
"Eh 7" said Mr.. Symington. standing
by, with hammer and screw-driver
brandished in either hand. "Are these
antiques ?''
GOOD gracious me! ~ gasped Mrs. Sym
ington. What can this possibly mean ?"
For the china which she unwrapped
from IT'S coverings of coarse brown paper
was cheap and common style, such as is
associated in the mind with tea chromos,
gaudy Autographs AID statesmen of the
Hebraic persuasion-white, with band of
imitation gold around each piece, and a
coarse flower sprawling below, as if it had
been IL i'd on with miniature whitewash
brush,
"This is never my grandmother Grump-
tons old china" said Mrs. Symington,
bursting into teas, and pushing the hide
GUS atrocities away with a force which
cracked two plates. "I'll write to Aunt
Grizzly at once, and this misunderstand-
ing shall be cleared up''
In TIE course of time an answer came
from Wild River, stif1y written in pale
ink. and conveying IN its tout ensemble
the general impression that Aunt Grizzly
had wrestled with it as if it had been a
fit of the Asatic cholera.
''DEAR NIECE" lit said. )-"With Love
and duty take up my Pen to inform
You that the China is all right, Bot from
Sos tafsay & Pipkin, in Boston, last Novem-
Der, at Eight 1881 Dollars the set, to be
transported at my own Dammage. As
for my Mothers old Set, which Capt. Bah
cock bro't from Calcutta in the year 1925.
l Gave it to his Niece Helen Hosmer two
Yeres ago for Pare of Gold Spectakles
and Fur Mutf, being so Cracked and
Old-fashion that it wasn't worth no more.
But I'm told that she puts it on Ebony
Shelves in her Best Parlor. But Helen
never was more than Half W tilted land your
set witch you took home with you is worth
Deal the most Money. So you have
the Best Bargain. With love, remain,
| Your Aunt to Command.
GRlZZEL GRUMPToN."
"Ah!" said Mr.. Syming ton, who had
been listening intently to the contents of
this much blotted and besmeared piece of
manuscript. sealed with Aunt Grizzy's
thimble top, and still retaining subtle
odor of fried sausages and griddle cakes.
"A seal dolman at three hundred dollars,
thirteen dollar hat, pair of fifteen dol
lar fur gloves a fifty dollar journey, and a
twenty-five dollar investment, all for a set
of china which you can buy anywhere on
the Bowery or Grand street for ten dol
lars! How does that look, my dear. as
viewed in the light of political economy"
| And Mrs. Symington answered only by
her tears. al4
There. there, Bella, don't fret" said
her husband kindly. 'Let the thing 60
for what it Is worth. Forget It,"
'But can't help f-f-fretting," sobbed
Mrs. Symington. lone thing is quite
certain, however, never will be such a
fool again. will not spend another cent
for ceramics until have economical
enough to pay for this outrageous SWIM
dIe'
Gently, my dear, gently" said her
husband. ''Now you are going too far.
Aunt Grizzle was honest enough. You
said you wanted her china, and she sold
you her china at your own terms.''
But 1 didn't mean this china" said
Mrs. Symington.
How was she to know what you
meant?" said Mr.. Symington. sChina is
china, and to me one piece is as good as
another.'
And Mrs. Symington was too broken
down and spiritless even to argue the
point with him-L,lcy Randall Comfart.
UNDERTAKEN ENORMOUS PROFITS.
-Coffins are made by the wholesale and
turned out by the thousand every month.
Other articles of funeral furniture are
manufactured in the same way. There are
large shops for the manufacture of shrouds
and the manufactures sells to the under
taker. He usually is the same man who
makes cofins and coffin Trimmings, and
everything he sells to the undertaken, as
rule, is sold for half of the retail price,
and often for less than that amount so