Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-26

lens pretty rooms. Girls are 80 pretty in
themselves that II 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, aud Industrious ones who sewed, and
ignorant ones who botched, and idle ones
who shirked, and busybodies who inspected
but did not work, as always in 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 a. you please. There's
hundred here, aud each Of us can dress one
nicely, this afternoon, said the pretty dolls
chair girl.
"Thats only twenty Well, IN dress
fifty"
@Fifty dolls o Miss Bryant, you are too
good And buzz Of appreciation 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 I'll call for them in an hour
or so." And Miss Bryant walked on.
The carriage was at the door and Miss
Bryant drove away in it. She drove a long
way up Washington street, and got out at a
droll little shop, kept by an old lady in aful
bordered cap.
It would have done your heart good 10
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 shet-woru But there were rem
nants Of silk Of bright colors, Of bobbinet
lace, Illusions edgings; summer silks in lit
tie checks, aud small remnants Of lining
silks bright mefinos aud wool delaines, balls
Of narrow ribbons, odds and ends of all sorts
aud kinds. The shelves looked quite bare
when Miss Bryant paid the bill, and the
face of the little old lady grew lovely TO
behold
GLOW comes ON the winter. Mrs. Hazard 2"
asked Miss Bryant.
Pretty bad, pretty bad. You see, I'd
rented my upper room 10 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 haye to move, and then what III do
to pay the rent puzzles me-"
an Just step mp there said Miss Bryant
| Just as il that was not what she intended
to do.
So, Nellie" said Miss Bryant, you are
not going TO be 50 busy as formerly for
awhile, 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 TO do it myself. Here's the material
to dress them. Can you do it Z"
In two weeks--yes, il mother will help
on the plain things. It's all hand-work
mostly, aud takes time"
Well, they are of all sizes some very
handsome some small and easy to dress.
Now they must be- honestly dressed, at least
all the larger ones, with the clothes TO come
OFF and put.on, just as little girls love them
best aud If YOU cannot do it ALL tell me.
Let Catherine Waters do up the clothes that
need it-she is out of work. too-and tell
her to send me the BILL
Well, it's hard enough on her." said
Nellie but Mrs. Rochester says that they
cannot afford to keep laundress this win
ter, and keep their cook, too
" IIumph r. said Miss Bryant. "I'll bring
You round the dolls before dark
When Miss Bryant came back she felt for
a moment as If she had missed her way aud
got into abee-hive, there was such busy hum.
d" I'm sure | try to be economical, said
one young lady, a teacher of music. save
dollar week washing handkerchiefs and
collars, and that's what I'm going to give to
the bazaar. ! feel as il ! had earned IL al
most
" Aud the bazaar is TO help the poor ?"
"Of course"
"What kind OF woman is your washer
woman 2"
"Oh, she's very respectable woman, |
assure you"
Likely to come on the Relief Society
this winter r.
Certainly not, if she can help it, But
she may for all that"
Now, my dear girl said Miss Bryant,
with her dazzling smile, don't you think
that dollar week that you save, at, am
sure, some Inconvenience TO yourself, and, |
am equally certain, some annoyance TO your
landlady, would help the Relief Society more
by keeping 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
whom, or how needy or deserving they really
are Don't YOU see that YOU take honest
bread TO give 10 possible mpostors p
= But, Miss Bryant, don't you approve of
the bazaar Don'tyou think the soup-house
is good thing 2"
| "les 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 adventurers. One who has de
: pended on the soup-house will depend again
I and you do much to encourage vice and idle
e ness. No, girls Have your bazaar. En-
4 Joy yourselves, make yourselves pretty, and
I have good time-tiod bless you all But
Il while you are doing II don't discharge th'
e musc-tcacher and teach the little sisters, i
you can afford to pay her, for she has {
v mother to support, or somebody else; nor do
e unsuitable work aud make yourself i'll, wheI
! ! A. 1. l., a
;. send to soihe poor woman glad of the job
Z If you are rich enough TO be generous, yol
n can be honest and help Others TO be. Ii yo,
economize, try 10 do it all yourself don
G crowd another's place. Don't try to teach
II and take the place of poor girl who coul,
r. lo it Just rs we'll, or better, who lives on it
T. while you only buy ribbons with the money
e "Bnt the example"
u Fudge as Burohell says. People wh'
J. are needy don't want your example; the
II want your place. Your room in the army O
teachers is far better than your company
d Now there is large class of people bor
t, and bred to better days, who will grow yer
cold and feel very hungry aud never tell any
s. body, who Railways be decent and pnche'
h and patient, aud hold il is the business o
II good Christians TO help these, and help then
H. with honest pay for honest work, aud wit
" auch tllhely help heHchtell ohelcu' ~ WI
s. confirm them in their own selfrespect
o. This was quite a speech for Miss Bryan
$. But the result was seen for, although nc
K nearly so many persons donated work @
y articles, or were asked to do so, so much wa
pad out for such offices that there were nc
10 50 very many poor folks 10 help that winter
n, for Freeyille is only a small place, after al
n, Aud the young folks had a glorious goo
e time, aud will talk of it Tor years to come p
Hoyper's Bazaar
\ NEw-loRKER, while journeying I'll
:; other day, was recognized by another citize
~ doing business near the Bowery, he bein
w also away from home on business, and aft'
little preliminary conversation, the fir
81 remarked Well, ! hear that you had
make an assignment" Yes, dat is drew,
lu ranlied tho other And your brother oye