The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-09-13
WHICH WAS RIGHT?
7wo Ways Of Putting Old Things
to Use.
N FLORENCE q. HALLowELI.

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to Use.
BY FLORENCE b. HALLOwELL.
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 so
keen IS to be almost pain. Family
cares had kept her in her own home,
many miles distant, and year after year
had rolled by. and she had not been
able to pay that visit to her sister Esther
for which Esther was always entreating
in her letters.
But she was in the old home at last,
and, though the place had changed
greatly since she had left it as q bride,
Tom aud Esther, her brother and sister,
were unchanged-in manner, at least,
though both had married, Toms we'd
ding having taken place only two years
previous.
"You are to stay with me for your
whole visit, Northumberland that, !"
Esther said, a Tom having gone, she
showed her sister to the well-ordered
guest-chamber Of her trim, cosy house.
sYou won't want to stay with Grace, for
you don't know her, and would find it
dull enough with Tom away nearly all
the time. You know he can afford to
keep only one clerk, and so he almost
lives ct the store"
II hope I will like Grace" said Mrs.
Arden. @You have never said much
about her in your letters"
@N-no," answered Mrs. Fame, hest
tstingly. II don't say that I approve of
her altogether. Still, we get on we'll
enough"
@But in what way do you disapprove
Of herr"
well. I think she ought to help
Tom more than she does. But we can't
talk it over now. Wait till tomorrow
and I'll tell you all about it, and I
know you'll feel just as I do"
So the subject was dropped for the
present, and not referred to until the
following morning, when, having made
. tour Of inspection over the house, the
sisters were comfortably seated in the
cosy sitting-room, each with a piece of
work. Mrs. Arden, having been fur
nished by Esther with yarn, was cro-
cheting An edge for q flannel skirt, and
Mrs. Fame was ripping up an old coat.
sWhat q pretty girl Toms wife isw
said Mrs. Arden, breaking a long
silence. @And Tom seems SO proud OF
her? Did you notice last night how at
tentively he listened whenever she
spoke?"
@Yes: he is very fond of her" an
swered Mrs. Fame, in q reluctant tone.
I wish, for his sake, she were not so ex-
travagant."
aYou said yesterday you would tell
me in what you disapproved of her,
Esther. Does she run Tom into debt? p
@No. no. I don't mean that she is
extravagant in the ways she spends his
money; but she doesn't know how to
save. She gives away SO much that
might be put to good use in her owl
home, and she calls il charity"
@And charity should begin at home,
certainly" said Mrs. Arden.
sYes; but she refuses to be convinced
that she is wrong. Now, in telling yor
about her. can't explain myself better
than by taking up my own case, ego
tistical as il may appear. You know
whom I married Mr.. Fame he was il
very marrow circumstances, and I made
up my mind to make the most Of every.
thing. learned how to turn all sort.
Of old things to account, and I have
not left of doing II now that our cir
cumstances have improved. Every ruf
in this house, except the large one ii
the parlor. Is made Of old clothes pas
respectable wearing. I have cut
braided, and sewed them myself, and i
wa often very hard work. Tia
wofsted stool your feet are resting OF
was . hood I wore three winters ago
Il was perfectly good. not . moth-hol,
in Il, but old-fashioned, 20, as Grac,
gave me Q new one for Christina
present, I used this TO cover q littl,
salt boz. II Is pretty, isn't It? Doyo'
see the cushions on that rocker in th,
corneri They were made Of an old al
pacs dress which was in fair condition
but hardly worth making over. Their,
was enough to make cushions for boil
The back and seat Of the rocker, and
lined them with . piece Of oardina
canton flannel that did duty for severn
s.ysass esa curtain. That comfortable
slumber robe on the sofa is made of
~fne-colored cashmere dress which ha,
iadsd and VA 20 cut up with rufie
that y couldn't be remodaled. I made
Thick and warm BY using my old fu
otroular 70 line Il, The fur wss 90 worl
IN asvsral places that I had TO give u
wearing r. and Henry gave me q plusl
Jacket, whtoh b ever 20 much more con
vsnisat thas tho cloak ever was. Blu
IL cd thing was Just what I needle
IL ny iumbsr sug. There are dozen