Fractional Currency Gossip

" Iiiioretia, " she suid, witli a longdra wn sigli, as slie gently the last volume of "ïho Mili 'on tjio Floss," wMcfa she had drawu from the Treasury Department libraiy a day ar two pi-evious, "don't you tbink that Georgo Eljót's works aro vcry clovatiug in thelr diameter?" "Yes, indeed I do," responded Lueretia, ceasing for a moment the work of couuting a lai'ge pile of fractional eurrency which lay bof ore her. "They teach us the virtue of self-denial so bcautif ully. " "Tes, and wlio eau help fceling scom for the littlo vanities of the world aftor readiiig tlie noble, almosfc iuspired words of the great authoress?" ' ' No onc that reads them I am suro, my dear; but when is the dressmaker going to finish your new plaid ?" "I don't know: the hatefnl thiug has diaappointed me four or iive times, I think sho is real mean, too, boeanse I promised to pay lier hall' cash as soon as the Kuit was (inished." "Oh, they aroallaliki', Araminta, mine has served me the same way. Bnt are you going to send your mother any inoney nest pay day?" "I woidd like to, Lucretia, but really I Avon't be able to. You know 1 haven't paid uj) entirely for my new hat, the one jvith the liyaointh ilowcrs and the mauve trinttningS. I guoss ma is only fussing, she don't really need the money." "I cau't sond anything home either, although mother gave me lits in her last letter. I have over seveuty dollars to jmy, and I dou't know how in the wotld I shall do it, and send her all I make bcside. " Aiul Uien both the gixls sighed and .said a t:w more coniplimcutary things about George Eïïot, and went on with theii woik of countiuo: nmtilated ourrencv. -