The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-04-03
the droll little piles of goods that had

them, that they were quite shelf worn.
But there were remnants of silk of
bright colors, of bobbinet lace, illusions.
edgings, summer silks in little checks,
small remnants of lining silks, bright
merinoes and wool delaines, balls of
narrow ribbons, odds and ends of all
sorts and kinds. The shelves looked
quite bare when Miss Bryant paid the
bill, and the face of the little old lady
grew lovely to behold.
How comes on the winter, Mrs
Hazardl' asked Miss Bryant.
:" Pretty bad, pretty bad. You sec I'd
rented my upper room to Nelly Moore
and her mother. And now she's out of
work, owing to Mrs. Jones dismissing
her extra help on account of hard times,
and | expect they'll have to move, and
then what I'll do to pay the rent puzzles
me-"
"I'll just step up there" said Miss
Bryant, just as if that was not what she
intended to do.
$50, Nelly" said Miss Bryant, "you
are not going to be as busy as formerly
for while. I'm ever so glad, for it
helps me out of an embarrassment. I've
got fifty dolls to dress for the bazaar.
Of course, I'm not so silly as, 20 do it
myself. Here's the material to dress
them. Can you do it?''
g In two weeks-yes, if mother will
help on the plain things, It's all hand
work mostly, and takes time"
We'll, they are of all sizes; some of
them very handsome; some small and
easy to dress. Now they must be hon
estly dressed, at least all the larger
ones, with the clothes TO come off and
put on, just as little girl loves them
best; and if you cannot do it all, tell
me. Let Catharipe Waters do up the
clothes that need it-she is out of work,
too-and tell her to SEM, me the bill, -
We'll, it's hard enough on her, y
said Nelly, "but Mrs. Rochester SAYS
that they cannot afford laundress, this
winter, and keep cook, too
Humph !" said Miss Bryant. "IIl
bring you round the dolls before dark. y
When Miss Bryant came back she felt
for moment as if she had missed her
way and got into bee hive, there was
such busy hum.
I'm sure [ try to be economical, .
said one young lady, teacher of music.
" save dollar a week washing hand
kerchiefs and collars, and that's what
I'm going to give to the bazaar. l feel
as if [ had earned it already"
And the bazaar is to help the poor ?''
said Miss Bryant, with that odd smile of
hers.
"Of course"
"What kind of woman is your
wash erwoman?
ooh, she's very respectable woman,
l assure you"
Likely to come to the Relief So
ciety, this winter 2"
Certainly not, if she can help it.
But she may for all that"
" Now, my dear girl" said Miss Bry-
ant, with her dazzling smile. don't
you think the dollar week that you
save at, l am sure. some Inconvenience
to yourself, and, | am equally certain,
some annoyance to your landlady, would
help the Relief Society more by keep
ing your washerwoman beyond the need
of its help, by giving her honest pay
for the only part of her work on which
she makes any real profit, than to put it
into the soup-house fund to help you
don't know who, or how needy or de-
serving they really are? Don't you see
that you take honest bread to give to
possible impostors?'
But, Miss Bryant, don't you approve
of the bazaar ? Don't You think the
soup house is a good thing %
" Yes, the strikers think so. Feeling
sure that their families will be helped
while they fight their employers. The
frontier towns think so when they have
foreign invasions of needy Adventures.
One who has depended on the SOUP
house will depend again and yoE do
much to encourage vice and idleness.
No, girls. Have your bazaar. Enjoy
yourselves, make yourselves pretty,
and have your good time. God bless
you all But while you are doing it
don't discharge the music teacher and
teach the little sisters if you can afford
to pay her, for she has mother to sup
port, or somebody else; nor do unsuita
bic work and make yourself i'll, when
the fee for one doctors visit will be
godsend to some poor woman glad of
the job. If you are rich enough to be
generous, you cal be honest, and help
others to be. If you economize, try to
do it all yourself; don't crowd another's
place. Don't try to teach, and take the
place of Ioorer girl who could do it
just as WE'LL or better, who lives on it,
while you only buy ribbons with the
money.
But the example,"
Fudge, as Burchell says. People
who are needy don't want your example;
they want your place. Your room in
the army of teachers is far better than
your company. Now there is a large
class of people born and bred to better
days who will grow very cold and feel
very hungry and never tell anybody,
who will always be decent and pinched
and patient, and I hold it is the bust
ness of good Christians to help these,
and help them, with honest pay for
honest work, and with such timely help,
delicately offered, as will confirm them
In their own self-respect
This was quite speech for Miss Bry-
ant. But the result was seen; for al
though not nearly so many persons
donated" work or articles, or were
asked to do SO, SO much were paid out
for such offices that there were not so
very many poor folks to help, that win
ter, for Freeville is only small place,
after all
And the young folks had glorious
good time, and will talk of it for years
to come.
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