The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04
q shameful piece of extravance. I wonder

a shameful piece of eXtravance. I wonder
you will insist on having such things"
La, Mamma! everybody has such now;
Laura Seymour has half a dozen that cost
more than these, and her father is no
richer than ours"
''Weu," said Mrs. Elmore, ''rich or no
rich, it seems to make very little ODDS; we
don't seem to have as much money to spare
as we did when we lived in the little house
on Spring street. What with buying new
furniture for the whole house and getting
every thing that you boys and girls say you
must have, we are rather poorer, if any
thing, than we were them
"Ma'am, there's Mrs. As girl come
home with some sewing said the servant.
SHOW her in" said Mrs. Elmore.
Ellen entered timidly and handed her
bundle of work to Mrs. Gilmore, who forth
with proce sded to minute scrutiny of the
articles, for she prided herself on being
very particular as to her sewing; but
though the work had been executed by
feeble hands and aching eyes, even Mrs.
Elmore could detect no fault with it.
-'Well, its very prettily DONE" said she;
"what does your mother charged" Ellen
handed neatly folded bill which she had
drawn for her mother. II must say |
think your mothers prices very high
said Mrs. Elmore, rummaging in her nearly
emptied purse; Everything is getting SO
dear that one hardly knows how to hve.''
Ellen looked at the fancy articles in the
chair and glanced round the room with an
air Of innocent astonishment. 'Ah,'' said
Mrs. Elmore, Il dare say that it seems to
you as if persons IN our situation had nc
need of economy; but for my part l feel
| the need of it more and more every day.
AS she spoke she handed Ellen s. which
though it was not one-tenth the price OF
the handkerchief, was all the money that
she and her
SICK MOTHER COULD CLAIM IN THE WORLD
'There," said she, "tell your mother that
| like her work very much, but | don't
know that l can afford to employ her if
can find anyone to work cheaper" Now
Mrs. Elmore was not kind hearted wo
man, and if Ellen had come as begger tc
solicit charity for her sick mother, Mrs
Elmore would have fitted out basket oil
provisions, and sent bottle of wine and 6
bundle of old clothes, and all the etceters
of such occasions; but the sight of bill
always aroused all the instructive sharp
ness of her business-like education. She
never had the dawning of an idea that il
was her duty to pay anybody more than
she could possibly help; nay, she had ar
indistinot notion that it was her duty, as
an economist, to make everybody take
as little as she possibly could
! w uCu Bio duu LICK uduSuISES llFtL
in the little house in Spring street, tt
which she had alluded, they used to spend
the greater part of their time at home, and
the family sewing was commonly done
among themselves. But since they haC
moved Into large house and set up car
riage, AMI addressed themselves to beine
genteel, the girls found that they had alto
gether too much to do to attend to theil
own sewing, much less to perform any for
their father and brothers; and their mother
found her hands abundantly full in over
looking her large house, in taking care Of
her expensive furniture and superintend
ing her increased accession of servants
The sewing, therefore, was to be put out
and Mrs. Elmore felt it a duty, she said
to get it done the cheapest way she could
Nevertheless, Mrs. Elmore was too not
able a lady, and her sons and daughter
were altogether too fastidious as to max
and quality of their clothing, to admit o
the idea of its being done in any but tn
most complete and perfect manner. Mrs
Elmore never accused herself Of