The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-09-25

the cloak away, You would have
blamed yourself greatly, would you
not.
"Of course l should"
well, let us emulate the famous
cow, and consider The cloak is
of Lyons velvet; the new sleeves
required yard of the same mate
rial, costing SO. The cloak now is
quite as good as new, but new or
old, it can only be worn in fair
weather. There must be a cheap
er one to save it. Again, this vel
vet cloak requires IL handsome
dress under it, and a cheap bonnet
would be quite incompatible with
it. You require, therefore, to COM
plete the operative process result
ing from the underlying principle
of this velvet cloak, the repairing
of which was such an economical
measure, an expenditure of any,
where from $50 to 800 to produce
the harmony in your toilet which
your cultivated taste demands, and
perhaps $50 more for another suit
i'll which to go out on cloudy days,
to wear shopping, and for all the
ordinary, commonplace business
of life. Would it not, then, have
been much more economical to let
the velvet cloak go, and purchase
substantial cloth one, trimmed
with fur. we will say, so that it
shall he handsome enough for Wis
iting, suitable for church, not too
frail to stand sprinkle of rain,
and requiring to go with it nothing
more elaborate than we'll made
cashmere dress and tasteful bon
net of felt, or some material rs ell
during?"
Aunt Abby paused, and, follow
ing her suggestion, we all emula-
ted the COW, and considered"
Mrs. LOTIONS wrinkled forehead
relaxed, and after a few moments
she broke into merry laugh.
"Why did you not read me that
| lecture week ago? | believe that
is the way in which | have beer
'economiziug' the whole of this
past year"
II have no doubt of it. 1t is the
way in which every one begins,
fancy"
Aunt Abby amused us for the
next half-hour with merry stories
of the things she had bought t.
match other things in her early
days of economizing, and Belle anC
| thought guiltily of some elabor
ate gauze overdresses, broad sashe'
and expensive artificial flowers
which we had recently purchase,
with a view of arranging som,
cheap evening toilets over two ole
silk skirts.
Il believe | have been doing til,
same thing with the children,
sighed Mrs. Lorton.
al believe you have smiled hel
friend, "for only last Sunday
heard Jenny tell her sister, very
gravely, that mamma was going t.
lengthen her blue silk by putting
OH new flouce."
THAT was my plan"
Eyes, and then the blue silk
would demand a blue plush jacket
and that would call for a bonnet
with ostrich plumes, or some other
bit of frail magnificence.
"What shall / put ON the girls?''
1.-TWO pretty tailor made suits.
"And waste the silk frocks be-
cause they are a trihe short?"
Decidedly, or else they will
waste great deal of money, and
the children be left without any
suitable serviceable garments for
half the occasions on which they
wish to 60 out"
Aunt Abby was growing very
eloquent with her theme.
al think" she said, chat a
great many of the worries, the
wrinkles, and gray hairs that vex
the days and destroy the beauty of
our American matrons grow out
of this very wantof harmony and
arrangement in our domestic
affairs Wealth has been bestowed