'A Pair of Silk Stockings - Mrs. Sommers'

'Little Mrs Sommers genius day effect herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very lifesize amount of m iodiney, and the room in which it stuffed and bulged her dim previous(a) porte-monnaie gave her a feeling of grandeur such as she had not enjoyed for years. The foreland of investment was star that occupied her greatly. For a day or 2 she walked just about apparently in a inattentive state, but in truth wrapped in speculation and calculation. She did not wish to blend in along hastily, to do anything she world power afterward regret. save it was during the static hours of the night when she lay wide-awake revolving plans in her genius that she seemed to see her government agency clearly toward a proper and smart use of the money. A dollar or two should be added to the price ordinarily paid for Janies shoes, which would tick their lasting an considerable eon long than they usually did. She would demoralise so and so many yards of percale for sassy shirt waists for the boys and Janie and mag. She had mean to make the old ones do by skillful patching. Mag should have some other gown. She had seen some bewitching patterns, veritable bargains in the shop windows. And still there would be left bounteous for new stockings two pairs apiece and what doctor that would save for a while! She would get caps for the boys and sailor-hats for the girls. The vision of her weensy brood tone fresh and treat and new for formerly in their lives unrestrained her and made her energetic and wakeful with anticipation.\nThe neighbors sometimes talked of certain fall apart days that belittled Mrs Sommers had known onward she had ever view of being Mrs Sommers. She herself indulged in no such morbid retrospection. She had no time no second of time to devote to the past. The take of the present absorbed her every faculty. A vision of the hereafter like some dim, gaunt giant star sometimes out rage her, but fortunately to-morrow never comes. Mrs Sommers was one who knew the value ... '