The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Save your rage.

--Every family has large amounts of cotton rage in the course of the year, which, if taken care of, washed, and sent to market, would pay handsomely for the trouble. Many ladies, we know, think the selling of rags too small a business for them to engage in, and therefore let their serape go to waste. We beg to remind, them that if the money to be received is no object, there is another season for this saving they are not likely to overlook, and that is the pleasure of reading the newspapers and of writing to and receiving letters from their friends. At the present prices of cotton paper makers cannot afford to use it for the manufacture of paper; and if they could, the scarcity of the article and the importance of using it in manufacturing clothing precludes the idea of working it up into papers. With these facts, then, before you, take your choice. If you are willing to forego the pleasure of reading newspapers — if you are content to hear verbally only from distant friends, from husbands, brothers, sweethearts, in the army, by occasional passers by, or not at all — then let the rage go to the but if you are not ready to give up the pleasures enumerated, then go to work industriously, gather up your rage as speedily as possible, and send them to market without delay. The Dispatch needs rags in any quantity, and will pay the highest cash prices for all that may be sent.