New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-28
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for MAY as. 1905
MRS. PUFFERoS WIN ALL
By ]. l.. HARE OUR

shares within SIN weeks OF her death
dear soull That was the occasion of
me splurgin' around in a carriage that
day in my ten-dollar hat and forty
dollar cloak and a green tafety silk
ready-made, and marked down from
forty dollars to twenty-nine dollars and
ninety-nine cents, and a feather boer that
| put up eight dollars for Amt that
sweet purify
She took a large and snowy ring of
turquoise and cheap pearls from a shelf
by the stove and held 1t out for my inspec-
ton. Then she added:
You know that I've allus said that
if ever l come into wealth | was goin
to have me a pearl and turquoise ring
and the first thing | bought out of my
windfall was that ring. Amt it sweet
purty?" She slipped it on one of her
moist red fingers as she spoke and looked
at 1t admiringly
Il don't think that anything sets of
body's hand more than a nice ring or
two, and | don't begretch the ten dollars
| paid for this. Jewelry amt a bad in
vestment, for YOU can always pawn it
easier than most ANYTHING else | got
me bar pin to match the ring, but |
loaned it to-day to a friend who wants
TO wear it to a weddin' this afternoon.
l believe in them that has sharin' with
them that hasn't and | amt been mean
with my money. l got old Granny
Rober in our tenement-house nice warm
flannel wrapper and | bought shoes all
around for the five children of the Widder
Bent in the tenement below me, and |
sent the Bradys bar'l of flour, for Brady
has been out of work for two months.
and his wife sick in bed and SIX mouths
to fill Then when a big fat sassy land
lord come around with an officer to set
the Wldder Haley and her three children
onto the street for back rent, | had the
happiness of sailin' in and pawn the
rent and orderin' the landlord and the
cop both out of the house I've given
away more than the gospel tenth of my
windfall"
do you think it wise to spend it all
in this way"
'Oh, l amt spent it all l put an
even hundred dollars into the savin 5
bank, and I'm goin' to keep it there for
a rainy day. But YOU see l never was
much for scrapin' and savin' eternally
for what folks call a rainy day. Id
ruther injoy the sunshiny days, and
mebbe | won't be here to get rained on
when the rainy days come, Who knows.
No, ma am I've allus said that | pro-
posed to injoy myself as l went along.
and that if | ever come into money Id
have one good time with it; and I'm
havin' 1t. Putter he wanted me to take
it and open up a little store with small
wares and candy and bake-shop stuff and
all that in it, but l set down on that
If | had a store of that kind Id trust
half of it away and give folks the other
half. | amt no biz ness instinc', nor
neither has PufTer He'd just as well stick
to his elevator job while l stick to my
wash-tub Keep within Your proper
speer, says |. Amt | right"
Il suppose so, l said weakly.
There's this about having a good
time: No matter what comes after it YOU
have the mem'ry of that good time left.
If | should come down to dependin on
the free-soup houses for my victuals Id
think while | was eatin' my soup of that
grand carriage ride | had the other dav. |