Item - Nothing But Rags

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 32 no. 5 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXII, no. 5, December 18, 1876 (Issue)
Companion Story:	Nothing But Rags!
Author:	Perry, C. E., Mrs.
Date:	December 18, 1876
First Sentence:	It was one of those grand old mansions which had been gradually losing caste for nearly a quarter of a century, and while the world of fashion had been quietly changing its locality, it had become that most forlorn and unsightly object in a great city- a down town tenement-house, with neglected looking children swarming around the door, and shrilled-voiced women leaning out the windows once draped with lace and damask, scolding the children or chatting with a passing neighbor.
Last Sentence:	A recherche dinner was ordered from the nearest restaurant, for Mrs. Howard Walling insisted upon taking her first Thanksgiving dinner after her marriage in her own house.