Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1911 — The End at Last. [ARTICLE]

The End at Last.

Miss Sparhawk believed in “having clothes appropriate to occasions.” and she graded her wearing apparel with great care. She boasted, and with reason, that she could "get more wear out of a dress that any one else in Canby. When the garment was past its first, second and third stages of usefulness for public wear, it was relegated to certain seasons of domestic stress, from which it passed eventually to the rag bag. One gingham, long dead to Miss Sparhawk’s heart, had reached this last stage, and she acknowledged it one day to the seamstress, "Don’t see as If I’d bad half the good I expected out of it,” she said, wistfully. “Tisn’t but eight years since I had It made up. Two years I wore It Sundays, the next two, sewing circle afternoons, next two when I went errands to the village, and these last two round the house, common. But now —” and she regarded the bundle sorrowfully before stuffing It into the yawning piece-bag—“now ’tisn’t even fit to hang out washing In, Mondays-**—Youth’s Companion.