The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-07-17
From the Detroit Free Press.


benevolent woman in Detroit than
Mrs. Gavett. Last year she was on
the committee to canvass for aid for
the grasshopper sufferers, and this
year she intends to send them box
of her own getting up. She had Cav
EFT bring up box the other day, and
when it had been placed in the sllanty
she put on a calico dress, tied on a
check apron and rambled around the
house to pick up enough articles to
fill the b0x and have it sent off the
next day. Her greatest anxiety was
that the box was too small for one
half the things she Wanted to send.
Opening . closet door she took
down M old coat, one that her hus-
band tbrev away two years ago.
!" I'll send that for one thing" she
,nnsed, as she held it up. ~ don't
know, thougl,-that's q pretty good
coat. Put 4 patch on that elbow and
Thomas can wear it half the summer. =
She placed it OH the chair, aud took
down one of her old dresses.
"I'll make some farmers wife glad
with tbis," she said, as she shook out
the folsis and held it up. "Let's see
Why, there isn't q hole in either
sleeve-skirt all right-waist almost
rs good as new. Ibelieve / can sell
that dress second hand for enough to
buy me q bracelet
The dress was laid beside the coat,
and she hauled out Gavett's boots.
The heel If one was run over, and
there was hole in the toe of the
other.
"Thev'll do for some one to pillow
in," she soliloquized, a. she took them
over to the Ii ght. "Some farmer
All! Why these are good boots!
believe could get them fixed up for
fifty cents 10 that Thomas could wear
them half the winter. don't believe
ia throwing any thing away, even if
we are we'll off"
The bOOts were set aside, and she
took down bundle of cl,ildren's
clothing.
"Ah! I eau send these and make
little hearts glad," she whispered as
she united the bundle. "The chill
!dren have outgrown them, and they
will be prize to some Kansas
:Sakcs alive but these garments are
almost "a good as the day they were
made up! believe can sell them
TO the washcrwoman for ut least two
dollars, and as soon as I get two dol
liars more can buy ME I, new braid"
She tied the bundle up and stuck
her head into the closet and brought
out another dress.
"A hole in each clbow-a skirt torn
half off," she unused as she turned it
half over. EN- send this anyhow.
Some mother can take it and get
enough cloth out Of the skirt to make
her little girl bran new. Here,
what was thinking off, Why, this
is exactly the stuff l want for the blue
stripe in the new rag-carpet. If I'd
known this dress was in this house I'd
have cut it up last week."
She unlocked another closet. peered
in, and hauled out Gavett's overcoat
one worn ont and stained and
kicked around for u year.
/" That will do splendilly she
said IA she held it up. at isn't nice,
but some farmer can wear it to chop
jn. Ali +! hold on! want that lining
to make cushion for my rocking
chair, and Jennie will want these
buttons for her stliug, and the coat'll
make beautiful rug to las ia front
IF the Lounge. FL like to send it,
but probably it woulda't be appre-
ciatst, qF probably some one else will
send Il better one"
) She rawMaged around for a full
hour, and when she got through the
rhan,t,er her floors were piled higl.
viii, old dutls.s Those she meant
~ keep were placed on the right
hose slse meant to sepd away Oh the
eft. On the Jeff was 2 wall basket
made Of hoVp-sktirt wire. SIZE hasn't
'ent the boy yet, but sue means to. |
She knows that all should contribute
o the relief Of the suffering aud dis |
ressed. /