The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-17
For shame. Donald Jarvisl You

Know better. LOOK ~ JelfY 3nC
Milly Greg, viii you, and say that be
makes the oest use of his money
She is at home with her parents ey-
cry night, making her wages go as
far as possible toward making them
comfortable, while he IS carousing
in the village wasting his time and
money, and making brute of him
self besides. And why does Mrs
Sarton come to receive her husbands
wages herself2 Simply because he
can not get by the saloon with mon.
ey in his pocket, and if she did not
get the money they would all GO
hungry to bed after his wages were
paid. And I believe that every wo-
man who earns money here spend:
it as wisely as the average man, and
have yet to hear of one Of them be
ing in debt
Mr.. Jarvis knew that he could not
tgainsay a 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
tcomes? If she get sick how long
could she paw for such care as you
have ?''
1T is not likely she viii lay up
many dollars out of hundred a
year but she is laying up some
thing better, / think. Last winter
she sent her mother warm shawl
and pair of shoes, and TO her brother
land sister 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 laying away nnm-
! Der of useful and pretty things for
them, and if any misfortune should
happen to Jane they would only be
too glad to help her.
well, who do vou suppose would
help you if you needed help?n said
Mr.. Jarvis for want of a better ques-
ton.
Mrs. Jarvis eyes sparkled angrily
as she answered:
Nobody. If you should lose
! your property to day, should be a
beggar, without q claiLa on any one
for help. You have ALWAYS held
your purse-strings so tightly that u
has been hard enough To ask for my
own necessities, leaving others out
altogether. Many q time dollar or
two would have enabled me to DO
some poor man OF woman untold
good /; but although you have always
said that al your property was mine
I never could and can not now COM
mand dollar of it.
Lucky you couldnt, ifyou want
cd to spend It on beggars-"
Donald, you know that | would
spend money as wisely as you do.
Who was it that only last week
gave poor lame beggar five dollars
I 10 pay his fare to Burton and then
saw him throw his crutches away
and make for the nearest saloon !?
Your wife could not do worse il
trusted with a few dollars. Yon
say that the money IS all mine, yet
you spend as you please, while | eau
not spend i dollar without asking
you for it and telling what 1 want it
for. Any beggar can get it in the
same way Christmas. yoI bought
presents from Us and expected us to
be grateful for them. A shawl for
ne, the very color i can not wear, a
set OF furs for Lucy that she did not
need, drum for Robin that has
oeen nuisance ever since, and lot
of worthless toys that are broken up
in week. There were forty dollars
or Fifty dollars of my money Just the
same as thrown away, yet when |
ask you TO trust me with two dol
lars week you can net imagine
what use | have for it, and fear 1t
will be wasted. / am sure could
not spend fifty dollars more foolish
ly if l tried to.
Well, snapped the proprietor, i
guess it Is my own money and l can
spend it as please. guess you Il
know it, too, when you get another
present
''Oh, it is your money, then. |
understood you to say it was all
mine, and so protested against your
speudingtt so feoiishiy. Ifit Is your
own, of course YOU have a right to
spend it as you please; but 1t seems
to me that a woman who left par
ents and brothers and sisters and all
her friends TO make home for YOU
among strangers. woman who has
given her whole fife to you for ft-
teen years, NAV be looked upon with
as much favor as you give 10 beggars
iwha are very likely to be impostors.
/ know that you seldom turn them
off without help Perhaps would
be more successful If | appealed to
you as beggar. | might say
Kind sir, please allow me out OF
your abundant means small pit
tance for nv comfort. Il IS true |
have enough 10 eat, and do not suf-
fer for clothing bat although |
work for my master from morning
til night, and ifhis children happen
to be sick. from night till morning
again, vet be does not pay me as
much as be does his cook, and am
often greatly distressed for want Of 4
triflIng sum which he would not
mind giving TO q perfect stranger.
The other day while he was from
home I had to go TO the next station
to see dear friend who was III, and
not having a dollar fmy own i was
obliged to borrow the money from
his cook. l was 50 mortified And
not long since the berry woman came
with such nice berries to sell, and
N J little girl, who was not vel. want
ed some very badly, but | had not
even five cents to pay for handful
for her. Yesterday q friend came TO
me to ask me to assist in a work OF
charity 1t was q worthy object and
! I lopsed go much to give little
money for so good q purpose, but
though the wife of so rich man, ]
had no money. OF course, l might
ask my husband for money, and if |
told him about what | wanted of it,
and be approved of my purpose and