The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-16
PATTY'S TRAVELLING BAG.

PATTY'S TRAVELLING BAG.
Patricia Lee is little girl. not quite
five years old, who lives in Boston. She
is an only daughter. and has four grown
up brothers. who were all very happy
when she was born, because they had
always wished for a sister.
They had a great deal of trouble in
naming her, and l think you could
scarcely guess why she had so unusual
a name as Patricia is for little Boston
girl, and the reason is a real boys rea-
son.
The truth is Patricia was born on the
seventeenth of March, st. Patrick's
Day, and as he appears to be a saint
who smiles upon all kinds of jollity and
"likes a good time" the boys changed
his name enough to make it suit girl,
and the baby was solemnly christened
Patricia, which soon became Patty, for
short
Not long ago Patty Lees mamma
was to have large party, and Patty
said, with a wise look:
There will be too much excitement
in the house for Patty, and she wants
to go to Aunt Mary's to stay all night,
and sleep in the room next cousin
Alice"
Patty's family thought this a very
good idea, and it was decided that she
should 90. Patty had never spent the
night away from home, but she loved
her Aunt Mary so mt oh and was so
fond of her cousins, Alice and Belle,
that it seemed quite natural that she
should wish to pass the night with
them.
When the day of the party arrived
Patty asked her mamma, after
luncheon, if she could pack her valise,
all her own self, and have just what
she. wished to carry to her aunts'. Mrs.
Lee thought it would be Just the sort
of thing that would make the little
girl quiet and happy, so she gave her
leave to 90 to the trunk-room with her
nurse, Maggie. and choose the valise
that pleased her best.
After much thought Patty decided
upon a large travelling bag which be-
lOnged to her eldest brother. 1t was
embroidered in woods and had a spir-
tied looking horses head on one side,
and Patty seemed to think that this
horse could carry the bag!
When Maggie had carried the bag to
Patty's room she began to pack it, talk
ing all the time thus:
Nov, course l can't 90 q journey
all alone, and | shall take Doll JENNY.
cause she's been sick and lost all her
hair-but I'll carry her wig, too, and
p'r'aps I'll ask Aunt Mary to glue it
on, and play the journey made her all
well, and her hair all growed out oh,
dear; how sick dolls do look disagree
able with no hairr' Then into the bag
went Jenny, head first, and the wig
followed. '+Now, Maggie" she began
again, ''eourse | must take some
cologne, and | shall seal my tooth
picks in an envelope-and | shall take
Dolly Marguerite, cause she il so good,
and Beauty cause-'cause | want to-"
Then Patty grew so busy with her
hands that she gave her tongue little
rest as she flew about the roonN open
ing closets and drawers, and packing
stockings and slippers. handkerchiefs
and collars enough for real journey.
She added her purse and her frog bank,
and told the frog, as she dropped him
into the bag, not to eat Beauty's ear
rings. Then she reflected moment
before going to her wOrk-drawer,
where she selected some threads of
gay wool, some canvas and her Thin
Bile. Next she occupied herself with
her library, which is large for child
like Patty, and decided upon three or
four books that she said ''would muse
me in the morning"
Thus she continued until the bag was
full to overlooking, when she rushed to
her mamma and said:
"Do you suppose Aunt Mary will
lend me pencil? have packed some
note paper and envelopes"
When the brothers heard this they
shouted, and when they saw the bag
they told her that she never could get
on over night in the world with SO few
things, and that she fought to carry %
rocking chair, and hot-water bottle,
and a thermometer, and be able to
make herself comfortable" But Patty
only laughed and said, "My boys are
so joky."
Mrs Lee sOberly assisted Patty to
put Ou Acl CiOdh anu OOluC6, anu
kissed her gOod-by, while Maggie took
the heavy bag and went with Patty to
Aunt Mary's house, which was but
three doors away.
Every one at Mrs. Lees was so busy
in preparing for the party that no more
was thought of Patty. At seven
o'clock, when Mrs. Lee was arranging
flowers, and hurrying through the last
for the evening, Patty's
Uncle Richard appeared, and an
that Patty wished to come
home.
He related how she had gone to her
room after Maggie left ner and I'M
packed her bag, put her various be-
longings in such places as pleased her
best, and laid Doll Jenny in the bed, to
wait until she should go herself to
sleep with her.
She then went to dinner, and every
thing was as merry as Il little girls
first visit should be, when suddenly
Patty spoke:
3" must 90 home; l walt to tell my
mamma something that forgot"
Aunt Mary answered: ''Wait till
after dinner. Patty" hoping she would
forget what she had just said.
But soon Patty's cheeks grew very
red, and her eyes filed with tears, and
she began to sob:
81 must tell mamma; | must tell her
something that | forgot"