The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-05-12

clothing room, Miss Perkins, said the
rector. 81 more than approve on gener-
al principles, but are you sure that your
valuable work will not make the gar
ments too costly for our poor people to
buy?"
81 am sure it will, DIR Templeton, and
that is why ask your approval Of de-
tail of my plan. May buy the contents
of the closet and manage things as best
[ can, under Deaconess Browns super
vision as to prices? I have no money!"
she fastened to add, ~ must pay for the
garments one by one as sell them; but
if can thus give little employment to
some Of our incompetents, and make use
OF some things that now simply cumber
our shelves, L shall not have work
ed quite in vain"
IA very good plan for US, am sure,
Miss Perkins, and 1 sincerely trust that
1t will afford better things for you than
at present it appears to me to promise.
And for further details, must leave
you In the hands of Deaconess Brown,
with power to appeal to Mr. Simonson, il
you desire further aid.''
DR. Templeton waved his hand toward
his assistant, just then appearing In the
doorway, and fed to his own quarters.
There were hundred more important
the parochial old clothes.
I The Rev Paul Simonson was also over
| worked, and had also q hundred things
on his mind, but to him it was perfectly
clear that no other parochial interest was
of SUCH profound and far reaching im-
portance as that which lay within the
four walls of the clothing room. He lis
tened with rapt attention while Juliana
explained to Deaconess Brown.
''If nothing more comes of it than re-
lief to Mrs Curry shall not have under
taken this in vain,'' the girl was saying,
her hand upon a shelf piled high with
garments of intensest black. "She is on
the verge of desperation over her in
ability to fit out Biddy Maginnis' boys
and Tessa Goldoni's infants with the last
] CAA 9 CFCAtA& SOatS VA uGI y oAb1
of st Herbert's. Thirteen full suits and
six extra pairs of trousers!" she added
with grimace that made both her COM
panions laugh.
| "My tailor tells me that nothing can
/; be done with an old style evening coat, %
observed the young minister.
! "That's because you are so fashion
able" laughed Juliana. ''If you went
to an ordinary tailor he would direct you
to man who would take your old suits
off your hands, furbish them up, and sell
them to walters in restaurants. That il
what shall do with them. Christine
Sprecher, who is not strong enough tc
] work more than couple OF hours at 8
time, will clean and press them beauti
fully, and find ten cents an hour god
send. I shall work over the buttonholes
and take any other needed stitches, and
when have sold one to Emile Fancher
whose little girl is in our Kindergarten
and the others to his friends and his
friends friends, then Deaconess Brown
will sing for JOY of the thirteen times
Ave dollars that shall bring to her be-
nevolent fund, and Christie will weep fol-
gratitude for thirteen times fifty cents
for cleaning and pressing, and / shall
sigh with thrifty content over thirteen
times two fifty in my own purse. See?'
The minister saw the girls smile, the
deaconess the force of her arithmetic
Eight dollars apiece for those suits p
she asked.
! s'They buy them for ten In the ready
made stores, not half so fine nor SO dur
able. but new. So you see my enterprise
will be TO the profit of everybody"
How about the extra trouserss'' ask
ed the deaconess, beginning to be in
terested.
i "See the benefit OF grandmother
laughed the girl. sMine told me last
/ night what they did with them in hel
young days; but shall not tell you til
+ have bought these trousers cheap
Half dollar pair Is quite enough Il
pay for them. And then Christine viii
rip and sponge them for quarter, and
!. shall cut them into the most enchanting
boleros and Eton jackets, and that swee
old Swedish grandmother Of the Malonys
| who learned sewing in Stockholm will b
glad to make them for dollar apiece
and the liaings and frogs will cost half
dollar and / shall sell them for twt
dollars and d half. just half what theJ
can be bought for in the department
stores, aud my proflt viii b. three-auar