The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-09
A Leaf from n Little Girls Diary.

Efiie in my diary, and this is the reason
why l am going to put them in. My
mother says when Effie is a great girl
he will like to read some of the things
she did and said when she was three
years old. And so will the Jimmyiohns
when they grow up and so l shall put
in some of their things, too, when l
have done putting in some of Effie's
things. The Jimmyiohns are my little
hrothers-both of them twins, Just
alike.
My father brought me home n pud-
ding-pan to make little buildings in.
1t doesn't hold very much ; it holds
most a cupful. And joey Moonbeam is
going to have a party and when she
does, my mother is going to show me
how to make a pudding in it. joey
Moonbeam is my very great rag-baby.
She has got a new hat. 1 made 1t.
Cousin Hiram says he is going to draw
a picture of it on joey M~oonbeam's
head in my diary, before she wears it
all ont. Betsey Ginger is going to
have some new clothes to wear to Joey
Moonbeam's party, and Dorothy Bees
wax is going to have onenew arm sewed
on. Susan Sugarspoon and Eudora
n. Posy and Jenny Popover are not
careful of their clothes, and so they
cannot have some new ones. \. stands
for Nightingale. Dear little Polly Co.
logne was the very smallest one of them
all. She was the baby rag-baby. She
was lust as cunning, and she had hair
that wasn't rawlings. 1t was hair, and
all the others have rawlings. Her
cheeks were painted pink. She had
four bib-aprons, and she had feet. We
don't Were she is. Rover-that little
dog that we used to have-carried her
off in his mouth, and now she is lost.
Rover went away to find her when /
told him to, and he did not come back.
We don't know where Rover is. We
think somebody stole him, or else he
would be heard of. Wefeel very sorry.
He was a good little dog. Ny father
says he was only playing when he car
ried her off.
1 love all my rag babies. I love
Snip, but not so much rs l do Rover.
1 love dear little baby-brother. love
the Jimmies both of them. / love
Efie, and l love my mother and my
father, and Grandma Plummer. l
don't love Aunt Debby. Aunt Debby
does not love little girls. When little
girls have a puddlng-pan, Aunt Debby
SAYS it is nonsense for them to have
them. Ny mother said 1 might have
plums in my pudding. 1 like to pick
over raisins. Sometimes my mother
lets me eat six, when i pick them over,
and sometimes she lets me eat eight.
Then l shut up my eyes
and pick all the rest over with
them shut up, because then | cannot
see how good they look. Grandma
Plummer told me this way to do. Ellie
is not big enough. She would put them
in her a~rm-basket. She puts every
thing III her arm-basket. She carries
it on her arm all the time, and carries
it to the table and up to bed. My
mother hangs it on the post OF her crib.
When she sits up to the table, she
hangs it on her chair.
am going to tell what Efie puts in
her arm. basket Two curtain-rings,
one steel pen she found, some spools,
some strings, one bottle-it used to be
a smelling-bottle my fathers letter
when he was gone away a little basket
that Hiram made of q nutshell ; q head
of one little china doll; Betsey Bees
wax sometimes, and sometimes n OF
tine other ones +; peach-stone to plant
q glass eye of a bird that was not a live
one /; and a pill-box, and a piece OF red
glass, and pink calico, and an inkstand,
and her beads, and a foot of a doll.
We are going to have pumpkin fol-
dinner-I mean squash. joey Moon
beams party is going to be a soap-bub,
BILE party.
Sometimes Clarence stops to play
with us when he comes here. My
mother says he is a very good boy. His
father is dead his mother is sick so If
his little brother. He has got two