The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02

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said Miss Mary Bryant "What are the
girls going to make this afternoon when
they come here z"
"Dress dolls. There's a great deal
made on dolls, if you understand it. If
You dress them cheaply and showily,
and sew on the clothes, you more than
qlladruple the cost in the profit. Don't
You see!"
81 understand. ] was sacrificed to
such dolls in my childhood. Flimsy
tarlatan and spangles, and to cut stitch
was to sacrifice a whole wardrobe. And
the doll had on nothing to speak of
during the rest of her natural existence.
Do these young ladies propose to i'm
molate the Juveniles also on the altar of
economy"
"What queer girl you are l don't
know what You mean OF course they
want to make all they can for the bazar.
But here comes the first of them, while
we are talking, and here is Mrs. John
son S man with the dolls in the clothes
basket"
In truth it was pretty, kindly sight
to see the girls gathered together in Mrs.
in themselves that it don't matter what
they do; they are always the incest of all
things to look at But to-day they meant
business. There were bright, expert
enced ones who cut, and Industrious
ones who sewed, and ignorant ones who
botched, and idle ones who shirked, and
busybodies who inspected, but who did
not work, as always i'll such affairs.
Miss Bryant came in while they were
the busiest, with her walking dress on,
and the brightest of smiles on her face.
"Well, girls, how many have / got to
dress %
"Just as many as you please. There's
hundred here, and each of us can dress
one nicely this afternoon" said the
doll ll's-chair girl.
"That's only twenty. Well, III dress
fifty"
Fifty dolls Oh, Miss Bryant, you
are too good !" And buzz Of approba-
ton ran through the circle.
"No, I'm not. Fifty dolls isn't much
to dress for ones bleeding country.
Select fifty of the prettiest and largest
Put them into the basket and III call for
them III an hour or So. And Miss Bry
ant walked off.
The carriage was at the door, and Miss
Bryant drove away in it. She drove a
long way up Washington street, and got
ont at droll little shop, kept by an old
lady in her front parlor-a funny little
old lady in full-bordered cap.
II would have done your heart good
TO have seen Miss Bryant tumble over
the droll little piles of goods that had
lain on the shelves so long, Some of them,
that they were quite shelf-wOrn. But
there were remnants of silk of bright
colOrs, of bobbing lace, illusions, edg
ings summer silks in little checks, and
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.
Hazard z" asked Miss Bryant
Z" Pretty bad, pretty bad. You see,
I'd rented my upper room to Nelly
Moor and her mother. And now she's
out of work, owing to Mrs. Jones dis
missing 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.
"Ill just step mp 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 a while. I'm ever SO glad, for ii
helps me out of an embarrassment. I've
got fifty dolls to dress for the bazar. OF
course, I'm not SO silly as TO do it my
self. Here's the material to dress them.
Can you do itI"
In two weeks-yes, if mother will
help on the plain things. It's all hand
work mostly, and takes time.
"Well 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 girls love them best and if
you can do it all, tell me. Let Catharine
Waters do up the clothes that need be
she is ont of work, too-and tell her to
send me the bill.
"Well it's hard enough on her." said
Nelly; "but Mrs. Rochester says that
they cannot afford laundress tins win
ter and keep their cook too"
"Humph," said Miss Bryant. "IH
bring you round the dolls before dark. !"
When Miss Bryant came back she felt
for moment as if she had missed her
way and got into beehive, there was
such busy hum.
I'm sure try to be economical, ="
said one young lady, a teacher of music.
81 save dollar a week washing hand
kerchiefs and collars, and that's what
I'm going to give TO the bazar. feel as
If had earned il almost"
And the bazar is to help the poor 2"
said Miss Bryant, with that odd smile of
hers.
"Of course"
GO What kind of a woman is your wash
erwoman 9''
"Oh, she's a very respectable woman,
j assure you"
Likely to come on the relief society
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 that dollar n week that YOU