Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-05-27
FIVE FLOUNCES.

huud I1dTpeI, MIS- 11dI pei lltIlo uaubhIcl, ,
ten years old, looking very sad. She had
been crying hard, and was still frowning and
pouting; so could not help asking, "What
is the matter with Anna?'
II am ashamed to tell you," said her
mother.
"You may tell," cried Anna, in an injured
tone.
"She is crying because she cannot have five
hounces on her new dress"
eyes," added the little girl, "when Emma
Paul has five, and Eva and Jane Dearborn,
and"
give Aounces 1 exclaimed. "Children
often have good reason to cry; but I never
before heard of a complaint like this"
eve shall have to give our little daug hter
to some rich woman" said her mother, grave
!y; cher papa and I shall hardly be able to
keep her.
"But do you think FIVE founces can make
up for the papa and mamma which she will
lose p asked.
81 am afraid so" said her mother, "since
she is not willing to be guided by our tastes
and wishes. We think it wrong to spend so
much time and money in dressing up dress.
We want her to be neatly and prettily dress
ed ; but for dressing up dresses, that is quite
another matter; we have no time or money
to spare for that
"Besides making children look like dolls
and rag babies, peacocks and frights," l
said
Anna began to wipe her eyes.
"Neatness, simplicity and good taste are the
best dressmakers, and these always consult
in making Annals clothes" said her mother.
(Which is the reason her dresses are so be-
coming to her. l added. "People turn away
with disgust from children loaded with fnery
and founces. They should rather be pitied,
suppose, poor things"
Afterwards, when l saw Anna in her new
dress, it had not single founce, and she
looked as fair and as sweet as lily.
Our bodies should be nicely cared for our
clothing should be tasteful, neat and becom-
ing but any dressing which shows it has ta-
ken greal deal of time, pains and money to
prepare, shows that we set greater value on
display than becomes modest and Christian
people, CAilds Paper.
"LITrLE Bo-PEEp AND THE DYING CHILD.
A writer in Casselps Magazine says: re-
member when was nursing in hospital
once, there was poor little boy, about six
years old, dying of rheumatic fever. was
night-nurse in that ward, and regularly, when
the attack of pain came on, he used to scream
"Nursey, sing. It hurts ME. Sing the
hurt away"
So then I'd prop him up on my arm and
sing one song after another "Fwinkle,
Twinkle, Little Star, to Black.eyed Susan" I"
till the paroxysm of pain was over, and he'd
quiet down again. l always knew when that
was by his joining his voice in too, such a
weak, pipe of voice, poor lamb, but was
better glad to hear it than any music, for it
told me that pain was gone for awhile, and
1 could lie him down to sleep again.
Poor wee mite! was singing "Little
Bo-Peep" the night he died. 1 had him in
my arms He'd been sinking all day.
knew he could not last another, and though
he tried to Join in as usual, his voice went into
gasp and broke. I'd been sometimes used
to call the children in the ward my little
sheep; and when l came to the end of the
| verse
"Little Bo-Peep she lost her sheep,
| And doesn't know where 10 ma EN-;
Let em alone, and they'll come home,
And bring their tails behind 'em-
he looked up in my face with bit of smile
! on his poor, drawn white mouth, and said:
"Nursey'll know where to find her little
sheep when he goes home. Will be long
in going home now, nursey?"
Long! All, poor lamb ten minutes later
and he'd gone home.
The Four Ps.-"If only may succeed =
exclaimed the beginner in useful work
which at first did not seem to promise much
success.
"You will, if you do not leave the four P's
out of your plans" said gray-haired friend
who was at hand.
"What do you mean?" asked the other,
unable to understand him.
"The four P's stand for prayer, pains, pa
tience, and perseverance" was the reply
"and I know of nothing which these will not
conquer"
Are you ever inclined to be faint hearted
in any work that is put into your hands to DO
/ for God? Then mind that you, too, take the
four Ps into your plans, and 1 have no doubt
at all that you will succeed.