THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1269 
For 
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The Regeneration of Sarah 
By Beulah Heaston and Anna Nixon 
(Coutinned from page 1245.) 
Sarah hesitated a moment. Two dollars 
would buy the coveted dress and she could 
use the lace from her old chiffon blouse 
for trimming. She forgot everything but 
the picture in her mind of a voile dress, 
fresh and dainty, to take the place of the 
despised white one. 
“I'll take eight yards of that lavender 
and white voile,” she said calmly. 
“You’re getting the first dress from this 
piece,” remarked the clerk as he meas¬ 
ured the material. “Now, what else?” he 
asked, as he finished folding the dress 
length. 
Sarah glanced down at the grocery list 
which Alice had given her: Coffee, rice, 
baking powder, and a 25 pound sack of 
sugar. 
“I'll take—the rest in granulated 
sugar,” she replied. In that moment she 
regretted the impulse which had led her 
to purchase the dress, and was half in¬ 
clined to ask if she might exchange the 
voile for groceries. But she could not 
bring herself to do this, and all the way 
home was oppressed with the conscious¬ 
ness of her selfish act. 
“Where is the basket?” asked Alice, 
when Sarah returned from Westfield. 
“Joe’s bringing it,” Sarah answered, 
and slipped away to her room with a 
package under her arm. 
“I’ll go out and get the sugar,” said 
Alice when Joe brought in the basket and 
set it on the kitchen table. 
“I brought in everything there was,” 
Joe called back from the porch. 
Alice looked into the basket; it con¬ 
tained but one package. She took the 
slip of paper which was tucked under the 
string and studied it for a moment. 
“She's bought a dress instead of the 
groceries!” exclaimed Alice. “She thinks 
of no one but herself.” 
“Do you know that we haven’t an 
ounce of coffee in the house, and Ben is 
expecting men to help with the hay to¬ 
morrow?” she demanded, going up to 
Sarah’s room. “Oh, Sarah, what made 
you do it! You could have gotten along 
without this dress.” 
Sarah still felt repentant over her pur¬ 
chase, but would not admit it to Alice; 
and at the first word of reproof she was 
on the defensive. “I had to have a new 
dress.” she said defiantly. 
“We have all those raspberries to put 
up—and no sugar And you promised to 
help with them. You can’t do that and 
make your dress.” 
“We can put away the berries after the 
Fourth.” 
“Some of them will be over-ripe by 
that time—and fruit is not plentiful this 
year—we can’t let them waste.” Alice 
sighed and went back to her work. She 
said nothing more to Sarah about buying 
the dress, for there was nothing to be 
gained by doing so. 
Alice and Margaret came in from the 
berry patch on the day before the picnic 
and found Sarah in tears over her dress. 
In her haste to finish it in time to wear 
the next day, something had gone wrong. 
“I can’t finish it by to-morrow—there’s 
no use trying,” she lamented. “And I 
promised to make a cake for the picnic, 
too.” 
“Let me look at it—perhaps I can help 
you,” volunteered Alice. 
“You don’t need to bother—I’ll stay at 
home,” returned Sarah crossly. 
“Since you’ve bought it, you may as 
well have it to wear. We’ll manage some 
way to finish it. I wanted to make some 
changes in Margaret’s dress this after¬ 
noon, but I’ll help you first. You can 
make the cake right after dinner while 
I’m getting the chickens ready to fry for 
the picnic.” 
It was nine o’clock that evening betore 
Sarah’s dress was finished. As she held 
it up for a last admiring look before put¬ 
ting it away, she said contritely: “It 
was awfully good of you to help me—after 
I had acted so hateful about buying the 
dress, too. I couldn’t possibly have fin¬ 
ished it myself. I wish it was easy for 
me to be good and unselfish as you al¬ 
ways are. I’ll help you now with Mar¬ 
garet’s dress.” 
(To be continued.) 
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