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Bogus says she never could exist in the way that Mrs. Easygo does, with a constant drip of company, two or three to breakfast one day, half a dozen to dinner the next, and little evening gatherings once or twice a week. It must keep her house in confusion all the time; yet, for real social feeling, real exchange of thought and opinion, there is more of it in one half-hour at Mrs.
Ten thousand a year gives one leisure for reflection, and elegant leisure enables one to view household economies dispassionately; hence the unction with which these gifted daughters of upper air delight to exhort young neophytes. "Depend upon it, my dear," Aunt Sophia Easygo had said, "it's always the best economy to get the best things. They cost more in the beginning, but see how they last!
"I see what you are going to say," said Marianne. "You think that we have not once mentioned the consideration which should determine the carpet, whether it will harmonize with our other things. But you see, papa, we don't really know what our other things are to be." "Yes," said Jenny, "and Aunt Easygo said it was an unusually good chance to get a velvet carpet."
So, also, with point-lace, velvet dresses, and hundreds of things of that sort, which belong to a certain rate of income, and are absurd below it." "And yet, mamma, I heard Aunt Easygo say that velvet, point-lace, and Cashmere were the cheapest finery that could be bought, because they lasted a lifetime."
My wife quietly remarked that we had had great comfort in our own home, had entertained unnumbered friends, and had only ingrain carpets on our chambers and a three-ply on our parlor, and she doubted if any guest had ever thought of it, if the rooms had been a shade less pleasant; and as to durability, Aunt Easygo had renewed her carpets oftener than we.
"Yet, good as the chance is, it costs just twice as much as an ingrain." "Yes, papa, it does." "And you are not sure that the effect of it, after you get it down, will be as good as a well-chosen ingrain one." "That's true," said Marianne reflectively. "But then, papa," said Jenny, "Aunt Easygo said she never heard of such a bargain; only think, two dollars a yard for a velvet!"
There's Aunt Easygo has plant after plant brought from the greenhouse, and hanging-baskets, and all sorts of things; but her plants grow yellow and drop their leaves, and her hanging-baskets get dusty and poverty-stricken, while mamma's go on flourishing as heart could desire."
When my wife proceeded, with her well-trained business knowledge, to compare the prices of the simplest elegancies recommended by Aunt Easygo with the sum total to be drawn on, faces lengthened perceptibly. "How are people to go to housekeeping," said Jenny, "if everything costs so much?"
Easygo's than in a dozen of Mrs. Bogus's great parties. "The fact is, that Mrs. Easygo really does like the society of human beings.
Bogus says she never could exist in the way that Mrs. Easygo does, with a constant drip of company, two or three to breakfast one day, half a dozen to dinner the next, and little evening gatherings once or twice a week. It must keep her house in confusion all the time; yet, for real social feeling, real exchange of thought and opinion, there is more of it in one half-hour at Mrs.
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