Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-31

I'm so stupid, you know !" said Frank Bliss.
How sadie Learned to be Thankful.
BY MARGARET LEE. .. ...
This is story of little girl named
Sadie, who " didn't see why people
kept thanksgiving. Now wasn't it
comical for Sadie to speak so? Why,
thankful for just let me tell you all
she had in the first place she had a
kind father and such good mother
then she had two little brothers, and a
baby sister Just learning to walk
Then she lived in a nice house with a
large garden around it, where flowers
and fruit grew in summer, and where
she played with her hoop and sled in
winter. Inside the house were bright,
pleasant rooms, with thick carpets on
the floors, story books on the tables,
and pretty pictures on the walls.
Don't Won think that Sadie had a
great many things to be thankful for (?
/ do Besides ali these she had pair of
bright brown eyes. with which she could
see everything about her; a pair of
hands with which she could dress her.
self, sew, dig in the garden. and make
all sorts Of fancy-wOrk; and pair Of
strong legs that carried her just where
she wanted to go. in the shortest time
possible YOU should see her running
home from school, or up the street when
she heard drum beating.
Sadie was quite good scholar, al
though she didn't see why people
kept Thanksgiving" She stnded his
tory and geography, and could CIPHER
in fractions. She knew that the United
States was in the central part of North
America, and that Columbus discover
ed America; and yet she had never dis.
covered why she ought to feel thankful
and say so.
1t was very cold Thanksgiving Day,
and | think the weather bad something
to do with Sadie'signorance. You see,
she was coiied up on sofa in the sit
ting room, reading Cinderella, when
her mother walked into the room and
asked her was she going to church
1t was very cosy just then in the sit
ting room there was bright fire in
the CRATE, Uncle Fred had brought her
paper of caramels, and Cinderella was
Just about to dance with the Prince.
Outside IN the street the snow was
lying on the ground. the keen wiz d
was blowing the branches of the leaf
less trees against the frosted window
paues, and the sky was dull, leaden
gray. No SKY blue was visible, not "A
ray of sunlight warmed the cherries
scene.
So Sadie looked out of the window,
shivered, forgot what was surrounding
her, and wondered why people kept
Thanksgiving" ~
3" WHY, Sadie, said her mother in
surprise. Grandma, who had come to
spend the day, shook her head at
Sadie, and remarked, "For shame,
Sadie"
so Sadie hung her head, and her
cheeks began to burn, and she felt like
crying.
4" Who is that fumbling at the gate, d
sked Aunt Kate.
Sadie looked ont of the window
again, aud saw a girl about her own
size entering the front garden The
girls teet were bare. and blue with
cold; her clothes hung in ragged folds
around her thin figure she had an old
calico hood on her head, and corner
of a shawl pulled across her shoulders.
She was CARRYING basket on one arm,
the other was stretched ont in front OF
her, as if she were feeling her way IN
the dark
3" The child must be blind !" exclain
cd Sadie's mother; and followed by
Aunt Kate and Sadie, book in hand,
she weat to the door
Perhaps this little girl is also won
dering wis people keep Thanksgiving,
SAID Aunt Kate in low tone. Let
US try to make her feel thankful,
Sadie"
When toe poor little girl had CROPPED