Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-24


Johnson finds time to help us, even
with her seven children: and Mrs. Tri-
lobite has lent us her grandmother s
brocade for our Marie Antoinette;' and
Mrs. Millyun has given SO much to
bear oul' expenses. We shall not be
obliged to hi. e anything done scarcely"
"Humph p said Miss Mary Bryant,
who was Mrs. George Aliens single SIS
ter, and had five thousand a year of
her own, and 10 questions asked. AS
I said before, "Humph' said Mary
Bryant.
"Who makes the coffee, this year 3"
she asked.
"Oh, we are going to do that our
selves. Mrs. CLAY asked us So a
night, and SO we are going to save
that, and Mrs. Brown said she would do
it.
"I'il see to the coffee, remarked Miss
Mary Bryant, dryly.
What you make coffee What
did you say about cooking, yesterday?"
'Not at all. I'm going to pay Nora
O'Lay two dollars night for coffee and
frying oysters. Her husband is out of
work and she hassix children. For the
four nights of the bazaar it will be quite
Il lift, and she will come in at the death,
and help clear up"
Well, of course. if you pay out Of
your own pocket, it isnobody's business,
but the Relief Society won't pay any
bills
Generally speaking, L pay'my own, ?"
said Miss Bryant. "What are the girls
IL 4 l. -,
come here p
"Dress dolls. There's a great deal
made on dolls if you understand it. If
you dress them cheap and SLOWLY, and
sew on the clothes, you more than quad
ripple the cost in the profit. Don't you
see %
ST understand I was sacrificed to
such dolls in my childhood. Flimsy
tarlatan and spangles, and to cut a
stitch was to sacrifice a whole wardrobe
And the doll had on nothing to speak
of during the rest of her natural exist
ence. Do these young ladies propose to
immediate the juveniles also on the altar
of ceremony
''What queer girl you are l don't
know what you mean! OF course they
want to make all they can for the
bazaar. But here come the first of
them, while we are talking, and here is
Mrs. Johnson's man with the dolls in
clothes basket!'
In truth, it was pretty, kindly
sight to see the girls gathered together
in Mrs. Aliens pretty rooms. Girls are
so pretty 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, experienced ones who cut,
and industrious ones who sewed, and
ignorant ones who botched, and idle
ones who shirke,., and busybodies who
inspected but did not work, as always in
such affairs. aa ssa aa,...
Miss Bryant came in while they were
the busiest, with her walking dress on,
and the brightest of smiles on her face.
swell, girls, how many have [ got to
dress?"
Just as many as you please. There's
a hundred here, and each of us can dress
one nearly this afternoon" said the
pretty dolls chair girl.
''That's only twenty. Well, I'll dress
fifty"
Fifty dolls! Oh, Miss Bryant, you
are too good % And buzz of approba
tiol ran through the circle.
emo, I'm not. Fifty dolls isn't much
to dress for ones bleeding country
Select fifty OF the prettiest and largest.
Put them in the basket, and I'll call for
them in 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 long way up Washington street
and got out at droll little shop. kept
by an old lady in her front parlor-a
funny little old lady in full-bordered
cay. &C.
It 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 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.
Chow comes on the winter, Mrs.
Hazard?" asked Miss Bryant.
"Pretty bad, pretty bad. You SEQ 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 I 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 fit. dolls to dress for the bazaar.
Of course, I'm rot so silly al, 20 do it
myself. Here's the material to dress
them. Can YOU do it ?"