Year: 1879

ling Day perversity keeps II from
breaking away on her poor, sharp
shoulders.


Well, do as you please; only make
the most you can of the money. Fif-
ty dollars do not grow on every bush
in these times, and | should hardly
have felt able to give it to you now
fbut that Morton has been looking at
one of our new steam heaters for his
store, though some parties down in
Hartford offered him one at q dis
count. So buy the cloak of him, by
all means, if you get one.


And John struggled into a three
year old overcoat and hurried away.


Little Mrs, Fay turned the bills
over and over in her hand. She had
scarcely heard her husbands last
words. 1t was enough that he could
afford to give her the money and that
it was hers to spend. He was her
conscience in regard to money mat
ters. With the intricacies of bust
ness she had nothing todo. Should
she run around to Mrs. Jupe'sat once
and talk it over and find out exactly
how to send to New York for sam
pies Of dress goods?


The Jupes we're stylish people who
had recently moved into the neigh.
borhood, having bought the very
large lawn and the very small cot
tage with stable in the rear, which
gave an air Of elegance to the street
of the pretty New England town
where the Fays lived, BetweeprMrs.
Jupe and little Mrs. Fay the most in
innate relations had been establish.
ed. They ran back and forth at all
hours, a blind gate having been dis
covered at the foot of Mrs. Fay's
tiny flower garden, which opened
directly upon Mrs. Jupe's side lawn.


The latter had already advised in
regard to the new dress. You viii!
never think of buying it here, she
had said. Morton & Brier's dress
goods are so comh1on! Everybody in
town dresses the same-like mourn
ers at funerall Why not run down
10 New York, and buy something
made up? You would sayeit in your
dress.maker's bill.


Run down to New York! Mrs. Fay
regarded a visit to that Metropolis as
the event Of a lifetime-to be ardent
ly desired, but scarcely to be hoped
for. And as for dressmaker, one
day from such a functionary, for the
purpose of basting and trying on,
with three or four more from Susan
James who went out for seventy-fve
cents-and was thankful to get that
in these hard times-was the limit
of her desires.


Well, let me see; you might send
down to any one of the large retail
stores for samples and order from
there afterwards. You know that
each keeps clerk for nothing in the
world but to put up those samples.


And Mrs. Fay had gone home fill.
ed with desire to do this. To send
to New York, to the envy Of her less
well.informed neighborsl To appear
in dress, unlike anything display
ed in the townl She was not ordina-
rily vain woman, but Mrs. Fay's
ambition took fire at this spark of a
suggestion. But Johns countenance
assumed doubtful expression when
the plan was spread out before him.


/ don't know about that, he said
slowly, do as you would be done by,
is my motto, and how should l like
to have everybody in town to run off
to Hartford or New York to buy the
goods | offer for sale. Patroniae
home institutions, Annie; ;spend your
money where you make it, and help
10 build up your own town, | say
Why the country is going to ruin for
this same reason! Nothing in Amer.
lea will do for people, unless the ma.
ker is shrewd enough to brand it
with a foreign mark, We spend all
our time and strength in gathering
dollars to be sent out of the country.
And what do we get for them9 A
lot Of French fripperies and manu-.
factured articles which need only to
stand side by side with our own to
nhnn thn;r inEnrinr,lu