The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-01-22
LULU.

.Afew days ago, as I was going BY the
brick school house that stands on beau.
tiful retired spot, few streets from my
home, / saw six or seven little girls sit
ting on the steps, all chatteriug away
with animated faces, and glib tongues
There was no sour face, no harsh voice
among them, and walked slowly, fol. |
wanted to hear what they we're saying.
81 think Lulu is the sweetest girl in
our school, dou't you Bell? said one of
them. ..
Eyes, do I've never seen any girl
20 good to kiss as she is"
"Good to kiss 2" said the first little
speaker, Alice Monroe "Shes good
enough to eat, think. always feel as
if l wanted to eat her up. She always
looks as if she loved everybody" 4
"She's always smiling. That's what
l like her for replied Bell"
81 like Lulu because she's always so
patient aud kind" said Net.ie
Graves, another little speaker "ODe
afternoon, last week, when was hurry
ing to do my sums, and was crying be-
cause il was 50 late, and I was afraid
should have to stay after school, she took
out her handkerchief aud wiped my eyes,
and told me not to cry; she'd help me. |
| cried all the harder, though, just as l
always do when one is kind to me- l
cried all over my slate and the figures
all run together, SO that Lulu had to get
the arithmetic and set the sum over
again. When I saw how it was rubbed
out, said was sorry, and she said, o, Il
no matter. Come on. old figures. March !
on this slate as quick as you can She
was jus. as good as she could be to me,
SO that we we're through with the SUN
when school was out"
600 you want to know what I like her
for?" asked Lizzie Morton. II like her
because she's SO good to her mother. The
other night | went over to her house to =
get her to come out on the sidewalk and
roll hoop; but she said she couldn't for
Der mother wasn't well and bad gone gu.
to get the air. and she had stayed home
to rock the cradle. So I went into her c
house, and stayed with her while she :.
rocked little Willie in the cradle. She
often stays at home to take care of little .
Willie, and she leases her mother to let . .
her."
"Wc're all telling what We like her
for,,' said Emma Hawley 81 like her
because she always Gays the best thing
she can for everybody, and she never j,
tries to make out that anybody has done G.
more than they have, Don't you know, In
the other day, when Mr.. Lee was going -
10 whip Charles HANDBOOK fer throwing
\ stone aud hitting boy, she told him A
.he thought he didn't mean to hit him,
30 Mr.. Lee stopped and inquired into it,
md said be was satisfied the boy didn't
mean anything. She saves great many 5
Of the boys whippings, because she al.
ways says something to Mr.. Lee that sets I
him thinking"
~ like her because she's always 50
good to the poor little girls" said Mari
Anna Stone. "She treats me just as we'll
as if was rich
Little Marianna's words touched q
chord in her own heart, and she couldn't
say any more, or sit any longer on the
steps, but stole away and cried as she ,
thought about Lulu. Blessed little Lu. >
III. May she long have place in the
brick school house, and may Alice and $
Bell and Nettie and Lizzie and Emma
and poor littla Mariana often sit on the
steps and tell what they like her for"
May |, too, sometimes be there to listen I
And may all my young readers be like my
darling Lulu - Tract Journal