Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-17
False Economy.
s.Albert, | wish you would let me


she knew that her husband had not
much money to spare; yet she spoke
earnestly, and there was q world OF
entreaty in her look.
ssWhat do you want seventy-fve
cents for?'' asked Albert.
Il want to get some braid for my
new dress
II thought you had all the materi-
al on hand
$50 / thought I had, but Mrs.
Smith and Mrs. Thompson both have
trimming of braid upon theirs, and
it looks very pretty. 1t is very fash
ionable and adds very much to the
beauty of q dress.
s'Plague take these women's fash
ions our e..ss.less trimmings and
thing g-a-majigs cost more than the
dress is worth. It's nothing but mon
ey when once a woman thinks of a
new dress
II don't have many new dresses.
I do certainly try to be as economical
as I can"
cit is a funny kind of economy, at
all events. But if you must have it
l suppose you must
And Albert Landman took out his
wallet and counted out IS cents; but
he gave it grudgingly, and when he
put his wallet back into his pocket
he did it with an emphasis which
seemed to say that he would not take
it out again for week.
When Albert reached the outer
door on his way to work he found the
weather so threatening that he con-
cluded to 60 back and. get his UNI
brella; and upon re-enterng the sit
ting-room he found his wife IN tears.
She tried to hide the fact that she
had been weeping, but he had caught
her in the act, and asked what it
meant.
"Good gracious p cried the he's
band, Il should like to know if you
are crying at what [ said about the
dress?'
II was not crying at what you said.
Albert" said Kate TREMENDOUSLY; "but
you were SO reluctant to grant me the
favor. | was thinking how hard |
had to work | am tied to the house
how many little things l have to per-
plex me, then to think"
'Pshaw what do you want to be
so foolish for?"
And away started Albert Landman
a second time but he was not to es-
cape so easily. In the hall, he was
met by his daughter Lizzie, bright
eyed, rosy checked girl of ten years.
"Oh, papa, give me fifteen cents p
"What? ?"
"Oh, l want Is cents. Do please
give it to me-
"What in the world do you want
with it? Are you changing school
books again?'
"No, I want to buy hoop. Ellen
Smith has got one, and so has Mary
Buck and Sarah Allen. Mr.. Grant
has got some real pretty ones to sell
Can't | have one?'
"Nonsense !! if you want hoop
90 and get one off some ash barrel
| can't afford to be buying hoops fol
you to trundle about the Streets
"Please, papa"
; mo; | told you
The blue eyes filled with tears, ant
the child's sobbing broke upon hi:
ear. Albert Landman hurried from
the house with some very impatien
words upon his lips.
! This was in the morning. At moor
2 when he came home to dinner ther,
7 was a cloud over the household. Hi
wife was sober and even little Lizzie
; usually gay and blithesome, was sat
and silent.
But these things could not las
long in that household, for the hus
band and wife really loved each othe
$ devotedly and were at heart kind an
n forbearing. When Albert came hom
to his supper Kate greeted him wit
+ kiss, and in a moment sunshin
L came back; and had the lesson ende
= there the husband might have fancle
that he had done nothing wrong an
Is the cloud had been nothing but th
" eXhalation of a domestic fermen
ID for which no one was particularly II
3 sponsible, and might have eherishe
the conviction that women's fashion
y were a nuisance and a humbug, !;
. we'll as a frightful draft upon a hu
ps bands pocket.
After tea Albert did a few Choir
about the house, and then lighted
cigar and walked out. He had gol
,o but short distance when he N
Nv Lizzie. In her right hand she dragg'
if an old hoop which she had taken fro
dilapidated flour barrel, while wi
he her left hand she was rubbing her re
swollen eyes. She was in deep gri
- and was sobbing painfully. He sto
bo ped the child and asked her what t
nd matter was.
She answered as well as her SO
ed would let her, that the other girls h
er- laughed at her, and made fun of h
I'm hoop. They had nice, pretty HOOP
'e while hers was ugly and homely.
- ssNeyer mind, ;" said Albert, patti
os the little one on the head (for t