Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-01-13

- heerd only just now that you're goin
TO York" she said as if to apologize for
not coming sooner, land that you're goin
to get some things for Mis- Downing?'
''Ies, dress" Hannah returned, while
her mother gave tremendous "Ahem."
so heerd. | don't get to York very
often myself, and Pm afraid Pm getting
little behind the fashions. 1t don't paw.
you know, for me to get behind" she sim
pered. Miss Brown was more noted for
her shippers than for the correctness of
her styles.
OF course not.
80 made bold TO step round and ask
you, as you're going to the city anyway.
an will be lookin at the fashions to lust
give look fur me"
Il shall certainly study he fashions well
for my own benefit"
Il can't say exactly how many patterns
I'd like you to buy me-"
"Oh you want me to buy patterns, do
you?" Hannah asked quickly. She was
one of the most oblging rls in the world.
but this sort of thing was becoming mo-
nCtonous.
LAS long rs you're in the city, an goin
right by the fashion stores s'pose it won't
be no trouble for you to step in and buy n
shink is pretty-some sacks, bodies and
skirts, and 50 on. You can tell better'n [
can when you see 'em. You might get
about five dollars worth. Think it'll pav
me. I'll let you have the money when YOU
know how much it is, or l'll sew it out.n
While Hannah was silently making q
note of this Mrs. Dobbs, their next neigh
Dor, came in.
Pretty neighbors you are," was her
greeting. pretty neigh 1ors! Nellie she
just come up from the store. Ma ser
she, what do yer think? Hannah Good
rich is going to the city a-Thursday a.
shoppin, an is going to get Mis- Downing
dress. | wonder if she wouldn't buy me
a felt hat. Pm sick an tired o. Mis- Mil
ler's hatsP OF course she would SEE |.
"A pretty ne!ghbor sled be eff she
wouldn't"
why, certainly" said Hannah, trying
to call up smile. 1t WAS only the ghost
of one that responded, however. "What
Kind of a hat will Amelia want?'
She's gOin to leave that to your judg
ment. Somethin pretty and dressy and
stylish, and that'll be becomin TO you "
Hannah was dark, with delicate features.
! and very pretty; Amelia was light, with
coarse features, and homaly.
'She's willing to so as high rs five dol
| lars" Mrs. Dobbs went on. "Stiil, ef you
| don't have to spend SO much she'll he
| Jickled. Looking around q leetle and not
taking the fust thing that's offered, YOU
kin sometimes save as much as fifty
cents"
| The school where Han nah vaiuly strove
each day to make the Whitman youth learn
ed was some Distance from her home and
| she took her luncheon with her. She had
| just settled down TO it tn next noon. when
a delicate, withcred looking" long ago come
| ly woman entered the room.
Hannah greeted her with her unfailing
! politeuess, hoping against hope, that she
| had not heard OF the intended "trip.
! Mrs. Guiou would not sit down. She
! had run over only for a moment. She had
! just heard that mcruu that Miss Good
/ rich was gong on Thursday 10 the city,
and wanted to know if she would be will
! inc TO do the least bit o! an errand there.
| Would she be 80 kindg
| OF course Hannah could not say no. and
! Mrs. GUiOn chose 70 consider her emUar-
! raised silence an assent and took from a
| bag three pieces OF s!Ik-Dlue, yellow and
| green, all peculiar shades. Would Miss
! Goodrich be 50 kind as match them in
| zephyrs2 she had yaiuiy tried here and in
| adjacent towns to do 50, but then YOU
! never could get auyJh NJ outside Of the
city, and You could get everything there.
/ Would Miss Goodrich he 50 kind as to get
| d half a pound of each?
| The very small item Of matching three
| peculiar shades Of silk was added 90 Han
mains list.
! sire was sewing that evening when Mrs.
| Clark, the physicians " lie, came in. This
! lady was well OF, dres. y, bat economical
and very fussy. All Whitman knew that
she was hard 10 please. She would not
! burden Miss Goodrich for anything. she
| began, if she could possibly find time 10
! 20 herself to the city. o. if she could get
what she wanted in " than. She bad a
| piece Of brown plaid vi ich she would like
/ matched would Miss Goodrich be so Kind
as TO get the same quality exactly aud the
same PATTERN See? There was that fine
stripe-Gid she notice Luat> Ii was bought
| three years agG-Mrs Clark did not re
| mem Der now whether it WAS in New York
| or Philadelphia; she naI paid q dollar a
| yard for it., and she would like sin YARDS
! more.
Mrs Green from the Corners, Mrs Drake
! from the Center, Mrs. Williams from
| North Whitman. Mrs. johnson, Mrs. Jones.
Mrs Cole, one after the other, were ushereG
into the sitting room and begged to have Il
piece of goods matchel or something biz
or little bought in the city. They always
knew it would he no trouble for her rs long
as she WAS buying for herself, and not one
| offered to advance the money for the pur-
chase.
After supper on Wednesday evening
Hannah wrote out her list in full. She
! was studying it, u little amused and very
much vexed, when her mother entered.
Ma, I've been count ne up she said.
'Waal?n
The things ! am requested by the neigh
bors to bay amount al a rough guess 10
$50. They would easi Y fill three trunks,
and the work of hunting for them would
| occupy me ut least -four days. Not one has
offered Il cent IL advance or the money to
pay EXPRESSING. l have just eighty dollars
and two days 20 spend in the city
Il told you sol told you So
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