The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-06-14

to immediate the juveniles also on the
altar Of economy"
"What a queer girl you are l don't
know what you mean. Of course,
they want 10 make all they can for
the bazaar. But here comes the first
Of them, while we are talking, and
here is Mrs. Johnson's man with the
dolls in q clothes basket"
In truth, it was pretty, kindly
sight TO see the girls gather 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 mean business.
There we're bright and experienced
ones who cut, and 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 cases.
Miss Bryant came in while they were
the busiest, with her walking-dress on,
and the brightest smiles on her face.
"Well, girls, how many have 1 got
to dress ?"
"Just as many as you please.
There's hundred here, and each one
Of US can dress one apiece this after
noon," said the pretty dolls chair
girl.
THAT'S only twenty. Well, I'll
dress fifty"
"Fifty dolls! o Miss Bryant, you
are too goodP' and buzz of appro-
baton ran through the circle.
"No I am not. Fifty dolls isn't
much to dress for ones bleeding coun.
try. Select fifty of the prettiest and
the largest. Put them in the basket,
and III call for them in an hour or
so." And Miss Bryant 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 a droll little
shop, kept by an old lady in a full
bordered cap.
1t would have done your heart
good to have seen Miss Bryant turn
over the droll piles of goods that had
lain on the shelves SO long, some of
them, that they we're quite shelf.worl.
But there were remnants of silk of
bright colors, of bobbinet lace, illu-
sions, edgings; summer silks in little
checks, and small remnants Of lining
silks; bright merinos 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 be-
hold.
"How comes ON the winter, Mrs.
: Hazard ?" asked Miss Bryant.
"Pretty bad, pretty bad. You see,
I'd rented my upper room to Nellie
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
have to move, and then what I'll do
to pay the rent puzzles me-"
"I'll just step up there" said Mis-;
Bryant, just as if that was not what
she intended to do.
, $50 Nellie" said Miss Bryant, "yor
are not going to be as busy as formerly
for a while. l am ever SO glad, for il
helps me out of an embarrassment
I've got fifty dolls to dress for tn,
bazaar. Of course I'm not so silly al
to do it myself Here's the materia
to dress them. Can you do itP'
, ain two weeks-yes, if mother viii
: help ON the plain things. It's all hand
work mostly, and takes time"
swell, they are Of all sizes; som,
of them very handsome some small
/, and easy to dress. Now they must b
honestly dressed, a. least all the lar
ger ones, with the clothes to come OF
and put en-, just as little girls Low,
= them best and if you cannot do j
! tell me. Let Catherine Waters do al
: the clothes that need it-she is out o
4 work, too-and tell her to send M
the BILL"
[ "Well, it's hard enough on her,
!. said Nellie; "but Mrs. Rochester say
that they cannot afford a laundres
a this winter and keep a cook too"
e "Humph" said Miss Bryant
S "Tll bring you round the dolls befor
|. dark"
It When Miss Bryant came back sh
g felt for a moment as if she had misse'
her way aud got into bee hive, ther
If was such busy hum.
i "Pm sure l try to be economical,
y said one young lady, a teacher Q
music. 81 save a dollar a week wash
/" ing handkerehiefs and collars, an
e that's what I'm going to give TO th
!, bazaar. ! feel as if l had earned
almost.