The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-30
The Story that Was Told IT, Meta Dos.

"Now. META RosE,' said Mamie fl
the i'aSen.haired dolly. III YOU win i,
very stilI. andnot muss your pink d,ps
| will ten YOU Il story. t'ad
~ isn't II wrong story, Meta Rose
and it isn't Il ma!c-up story. Its iut
4 really, truly story, about what ban
pened to little girl; are YOU listcnipss
Meta Hosc?'' giving the pinklobej
lassie u little shake. - Mi
''Wcll, once on time ,herevs,
little girl about as biz as me. She
lived in pretty house. with her pam
and mamma and her big brother and
sister; but she wasn't q Bit happy. no.
not Il single bit! WE r'0o
"All the little girls in story-bobh,
have golden curls, and most all real
! little girls have light brown hair Or
black hair; but this little girls bal,
wasn't like anybody else s-it was red
just think Of that, Meta Rcse.t What
should you do if your hair ,v4s,el, in.
stead of light and fluffy? sgaal
but this little girl wouldn't have
felt so very bad about it, oniy her man.
ma wouldn't let her wear it long lind
crimped like the other little iris She
played with. No, her papa took hpr,o
, the BARRIERS one day. and he cutitc Of
just rs close with some horrhl, grea
scissors, and then he brushed it down
smooth and tight without pnt,insAs
least mite OF curl in it. and the Title
girl went home and cried and cried and
cried! ..f.-s.ai1N
"And her brother said. What makes
you cry. Red-Top?' aud that made rr
cry all the harder. And that's all about
her hair! 1i', 1'a''th
Then this little girls nose wasn't
straight and pretty, SO folks wouldn't
keep talking about it, like other little
girls noses. 1t was real short and
turned up at the end. anil everybody
that came to see her mamma said,
Where did she get such puy noscs!
rAnd when her sister got mad at her
she called hef 'Puggy,' which, ma&he
little girl feel real BAL, and sometimes
when her sister wasn't looking shtd
Cry. Antl that ali about her aoso!0
This little girls tacr wasn't all nice
and white, with just pink cheeks, like
yours. Meta Rose. It was freckted all
over, and she could never run out doors
without her hat. like other little girI.
for her mamma'd always say: mw
"Don't forget your hat! bclieyel
must make that child q snn.bonhet;
She $ getting SO frcckIed She wontte
lit to DC seem IN
"Somctimes her papa called her
Spotty, for fun; but it never was funny
n bit, Meta Rose. And that's all sbcn'
her freckles! . '.a llloa
"Then there was one other dreadful
thing that made the little girl iesI y
bad. and that was she was fat
Everybody said, What Il little
dump you are!' and one day her SISTER
said, Come, little Fatty. run apslafs
and get my book and when the NV
girl got up stairs she went and h l!valY
the garnet and cried and cried, ..y
big folks don't seem to think hHI
girls have any feelings. Meta Rose anu
they keep hurting them every day.
"When | get to be big anu sec WY.
body with red hair and trcck!es ap't
little pug nose and zeal fat, \ ~,
You're Just q darling, and love yya
as well as if you had yellow, curly ns .a
and looked like other little s'rIs;. a"u
then won't that little girl be glad' 49,, y.
But nobody knows that this hak
girl cares if they do call her Spotly, ~
PIGGY and Red-Top. because she III y
pre-oud that she laughs as hard "ns I
it all cry inside. And that's the euu
Of the story, Meta Rose, and us s'e''
word true .,4.I dr.,
Mamic's hair is just as brishht. . e c.
as it was on the day she told hef /. ovI
this long story about herself ana a. =" w.. ~%
be many months before it will oe -
enough to fall in glossy waves over ,"
plump shoulders. a-, ~. .,n,
But she does not seem to be unlnspG
about it any more, for her brother ny
or calls her Rcd.Top now. .,r
Her dimpled face shows ~ ~. 49, =.
freckles as it used, but papa never NM, ~
minds his little girl Of them by es =
her Spotty. No one would s"pl"''I
ever noticed them. !, ,roxp
Mamie roly.poly figure has e', md
no more slender since that dsy' ar a
her nose turns up as abruptly ~ DIV" nv"
but the nicknames Of Fatty ana .u; s;d
seem to be forgotten, and the l! ~ 4
is Is light. hcarted and merry IS ,S les,
her fair-haired, freckleless pay '' s.oftIy
1t may be that somebody store Land so
upstairs one afternoon ana o'e DaS.
the story that was told TO Me'a n ',';oa,
1iabel {. Dowd, IN Youths '"'"fp'' 'g