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Show A .Nrit t'e fut tlio Ileal'. I once spent a winter with a family where the mother and the daughter performed most of the tiou.-ebold service, only calling iu a woman on iv a ib days and fur extra work. '1' bey were In moderately comfortublecir cumsUticea, and con.-idermg their habile und 1 heir income, should never have Lneii ' threat ly worried atxmt money mailers, lint tlie daughters were always in debt, and the mother, who wit a willow, wiw in a perpetual per-petual worry about bill.-. The til low mice were always r-pent tie fore they were received, re-ceived, and the aKjjregatc indebtedness was fur nmre than the sum provided, no that the surplus debt accumulated rapidly. It ' was a puzzle ro me fur some time how they managed to get into such corners. They! bought continually and bought (food j i things, hut never seemed to have anything j at to wear except their inn recent pur-1 pur-1 chaws. What became of I 'f- many articles 1 which were brought into the house I could I : never imagine, until one day 1 overheard ; a conversation that let light iu upon the, subject. I One of the daughters had been caught in I a rainstorm the night before, and her dress j was soaked, mud splashed and torn. Shu, had taken tt off hurriedly, dropped it on the lloor iu one corner of the room and for- gulloii it, she said, and it was one mass of ! wrinkles and creases. She gave it a few I dashc with Ihe whUk broom, then m dis- ; gn-,t declared that it was no good aud t hat she would throw it into the heater Suit-i Suit-i fng the action to the word, she bundled no I the dress, took it, to the cellar mid a mo-i mo-i meiit later nothing remained of it but , I ashes. A few days later an out of season hntaiidsoineill lilt iug but ex pensive shoes, only half worn, went the same way. When articles were inquired for some ex- cuse was made for their non-appearance. ' ! and as lime went on they were forgotten.1 The mother was a huiipy-go-lucky sort, of j person, who was to an extent ruled by her ' daughters, and they silenced her remon- ' ; utruuecs whenever she ventured, and by ; declaring that the things were perfectly ; useless, and why not have them out of the . wiyf I Articles uf furniture requiring only u j moment's repairs were broken up for I kindling, tins with a speck of a hole in 1 i were given to the ashman, and everything 1 aud anything the puttingiu order of which took time or pains were disposed of iu the same way. But it was into the capacious jaws of the heater that l he goods and chat-. chat-. tels of that, family went, ami wastefulness and extravagance took on a new meaning to tue after that winter's experience with the heater as a consuming dement. New , York Ledger. |