The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-31


b dies 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 smiles
on her fsce.
well. girls, how many have 1 got to
dress ?"
Just as many as you please. There's
hundred here, aud each OF US can dress one
apiece this afternoon" said the pretty
doll's-cbsir girl.
That's only twenty. Well, I'll dress
ffty."
"FIny dollsl o, Miss Bryant, you are
too goooi" and buzz of appreciation ran
through the circle.
"No, Pm 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 Bryant walked
off.
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 droll little shop, kept by an old
lady in a full-bordered cap
IL would have done your heart good to
have seen Miss Bryant turn over the droll
little piles of goods that had lain on the
shelves so long, some of them, that they
were quite sbelf-worn. But there were
remnants o. silk OF bright colors, OF
bobbinet lace, illusions, edgings; summer
silks in little checks, and small remnants
of lining silks; bright merinos and wool
delsines, balls of narrow ribbons, odds
and ends of all sorts and kinds. The
shelves looked quite bare when Miss Bry-
ant paid the bill, and the face OF the little
old lady grew lovely to behold.
"How comes on the winter, Mrs. HaZ-
ard?" asked Miss Bryant.
"Pretty bad, pretty bad. You see, Pd
rented my upper room to Nellie Moore and
her mother And now she's out OF work
owing to Mrs. Jones dismisslng her extra
help on account OF hard times, and I ex-
pect they'll have to move, and then what
I'll do to pay the rent puzzles me-"
"Ill Just step up there" said Miss Bry-
ant, just as il that is not what she intended
to do.
$50, Nellie" said Miss Bryant, "you are
not going to be as busy as formerly for a
while. I'm ever so glad, for it helps me
out OF an embarrassment. I've got fifty
dolls to dress for the bszaar. OF course.
Pm not so silly as to do it myself Here's
the material to dress them. Can you co
itH"
SIN two weeks-yes, If mother will help
on the rlain things. It's all hand-work
mostly, and takes time."
'Well, they are all sizes; some of them
very handsome; some small and easy to
dress. Now, they must be honestly
dressed, at least all the larger ones, with
clothes TO come off and put on, Just as lit
tie girls love them best; ana il you can
not do it at all, tell me. Let Cathsrine
Waters do up the clothes that need it
she is out Of work, too-snd tell her to
send me the BILL"
"Well, it's hard enough on her." said
Nellie; ''but Mrs. Rochester says they can
not afford laundrtss this winter, and keep
their cook too"
"Humphw said Miss Bryant, "I'll bring
you round the dolls before dark"
When Miss Bryant came back she felt
for moment as il she had missed her way
and got into beehive, there was such q
busy hum.
Pm sure try to be economical" said
one young lady, teacher OF music. 81
save dollar q week washing handker-
chies and collars, and that's what I'm GO
ing to give to the bazaar. feel as If had
earned it almost"
"And the bszaar is to help the poor"
said Miss Bryant. with that odd smile of
hers.
"Oi course"
"Whst kind OF woman is Jour washer
womsn9"
sob, she's very respectable woman, 1
assure you"
"Likely to come on the Relief Society
this winter7"
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 lsndlady would help the Relief So
ciety more by keeping your washerwomsn
beyond the need OF its help, by giving her
honest pay for the only part of her work
on which she makes any profit tnsn to
put 1t into the soup-house fund to help
you don't know who, or how needy or de-
serving they really are? Don't you see
that you take honest bread to give to pos
sible imposters7"
"But, Miss Bryant, don't you approve of
the bazaar? Don't you think the soup.
house is a good thing?"
YES, 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 in
vssions of needy adventures. One who
hiss depended on the soup-house will de-
pend again, and you do much to encourage
vice and idleness. No, girls! Have your
bIzsar. Enjoy yourselves, make yourselves
pretty and have good time. God bless
you all! But while you are doing it don't
discharge the music teacher and teach the
llbbio slctolS, II you eau duOI0 10 pay Q6T,
for she has mother to support, or some
body else; nor do unsuitable work and
make yourself Ill, when the fee for one
Doctors visit will be a godsend to some
poor woman glad OF the job. If you are
rich enough to be generous, you can be
honest and help others TO be. II you econo-
mize, try to do it all yourself; don't crowd
another's place. Don't try to teach and
take the place OF a poorer girl who could
do IL in II = wall Qr halter wkn Hvaa ON
it, while you only buy ribbons with the
money"
"But the example,"
"Fudgei" as Burchell says. People
who are needy don't want your example;
they want your place. Your room In the
army of tea hers Is far better than your
company. Now, there is a large cla.s OF
people born and bred to better days, who
will grow very cold and feel very hungry,
and never tell anybody, who will always
be decent and pinched and patient; and
hold IL Is the business of good Christians