The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-01-26
WHICH WAS RIGHT2
TWO Ways of Putting Old Things
to Use.

When Mrs. Arden, after an absence
| Of ten years, found herself again in the
Town in which her girlhood had been
passed, she experienced a delight SC
seen as. to be almost pain. Family
cares had kept her in her own home,
many miles distant, and year after year
| bad rolled by, and she had not been
.ble to pay that visit to her sister
Esther for which Esther was always
sptreating in her letters.
But she was in the old home at last
snd, though the place had changed
greatly since she had LETT it as bride,
Tom and Esther, her brother and sister,
we're unchanged-in manner, at least,
ihongh both had married. Toms wed.
ding having taken place only two years
previous.
"You are to stay with me for your
whole visit. Lizzie-understand that, u
Esther said, as, Tom having gone. she
showed her sister to the well-ordered
guest-chamber of her trim, cozy house.
lou won't want to stay with Grace,
for you don't know her, and would find
hdull enongh with Tom away nearly
sllihc time. You know he can afford
iakeep only one clerk, and so he almost
lives at the store"
4 hope will like Grace" said Mrs.
Arden. you have never said much
about her in your letters"
N-no," answered Mrs. Fame, hesi-
tatingy. 'Idon't say that l approve
dher altogether. Still, we get on well
sHough.n
But IN what way do you disapproye
a her?n
well, ! think she ought to help Tom
more than she does. But we can't talk
aover now. Wait till tomorrow. and
~ tell you all about it, and l know
goull feel just as do"
90 the subject was dropped for the
present, and not referred to until the
blowing morning, when, having made
aloar OF inspection over the house. the
as'ers were comfortably seated in the
eosy sltting-room, each with a piece OF
WORK Mrs. Arden, having been fur
lshed by Esther with yarn, was GRO
,saaetng an edge for a flannel skirt, and
nus. Fame was ripping up an old coat.
what pretty girl Toms wife is!'
'aa Mrs. Arden, breaking long
'aeace. "And Tom seems so proud Of
CRY DID you notice last night how at
ennvely he listened whenever she
( poke?"
les; he is very fond of her." an
aerea Mrs. Fame, in reluctant tone.
wish, for his sake, she were not SO
atravagant.''
:. lou said yesterday you would tell
y, y u what you disapproved of her,
s'l,sr. Does she run Tom into debit"
no; no. I don't mean that she is
assaht In the ways she spends his
s'Nsy but she doesn't know how to
we we !. She gives away so much that
~ ~ oe put to good use in her own
.ue' ana she calls it charity"
-. Ana charity should begin at home,
a'sinly," said Mrs. Arden.
4. Les; but she refuses to be convinced
,1s.s A. sAs Is wrong. Now, in telling you
j. WI her, | can't explain myself bet.
,,.,;.a. aaa oy taking up my own case,
ts.a tss'leal as it may appear. You
I :" 8aen married Mr.. Fame he was
n,s Ivy narrow circumstances, and
,,s sse up my mind to make the most OF
NJ ~ lalng, learned how to turn all
I,,s ~ ol old things to account, and |
,ir,s a0' left off doing it now that our
,us Instances i ia have improved. Every
i H. 4 'als house. except the large one
ii. parior, is made of old clothes
a,;a.s lssspcetable wearing. Ihave cut,
sm a =. and sewed them myself, and it
sa,s, u'ea very hard work. That
Is sea : stool your feet are resting on
:. nood wore three winters ago.
hs ~ PERFECTLY good, not a moth hole
! ~ ua' old'fashioned. so, as Grace
! fsF ne nau 49,