The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-12-16

they want to make all they can for tn
bazaar. But here comes the first O
them, while we are talking, and her
is Mrs. J0hnsOn's man with the doll
IN a clOthes-basketp
In truth, it was pretty, kindly
sight to see the girls gathered togethe
in Mrs. Aliens pretty rooms. Girls
are so pretty in themselves that /
don't matter what they do; they ar,
always the incest of all things to lool
at. But to-day they meant business
There were bright, experienced ones
who cut, Industrious ones who sewed
and ignorant ones who botched, ant
idle ones who shirked. and busybodie.
who inspected but did not work, as al
ways in such affairs. Miss Bryant
came in while they were the busiest
with her walking-dress on, and tht
brightest of smiles on her face.
well, girls, how many have / got tt
dress?'
Just as many as you please. There:
hundred here. and each of us car
dress one nicely this afternoon saiC
the pretty dolls girl.
That's only twenty. Well, I'll dress
fifty
Fifty dolls! o Miss Bryant, you
are too goOdv And buzz of approba
tion ran through the crcle.
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 cal
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.
1t would have done your heart good
to 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 shelf-wOrn
But there were remnants of silk of
bright colors. of bobbinet lace, Illusions
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 behold.
How comes on the winter, Mrs. Haz-
ard i? asked Miss Bryant.
'Preety bad, pretty bad. You see,
I'd rented nay upper room to Nelly
Moore and her mother. And now she's
out of work, owing to Mrs. Jones dis
her extra help on account of
hard times, and l expect they'll have
to move, and then what I'll do to pay
the rent puzzles me-
III just step up there said Miss
just as if that was not what
she intended to do.
so, Nellie said Miss Bryant, you
are not going to be as busy as former
ly for while. I'm ever so glad, for it
helps me out of an embarrassment.
I've got fifty dolls to dress for the ba-
Zaar. OF course I'm not so silly as to
do it myself. Here's the material to
dress them. Can you do it?'
In two weeks-yes. if mother will
help on the plain things. It's all hand
work mostly and takes time
We'll, the1 are of all sizes; some of
them very handsome; some small and
easy to dress. Now they must be hon.
estly dressed, at least all the larger
ones, with the clothes to come off and
put on, just as little girls love them
best; and if you car not do it all, tell
me. Let Catharine Waters do up the
clothes that need it-she Is out of
work, tOO-and tell her to send me the
BILL
We'll. it's hard enough on her. said
Nellie, but Mrs. Rochester says that
they cannot afford laundress this
winter, and keep their cook too
'Humph! said Miss Rryant. ri
bring you rOnud the dolls before dark.
when Miss Bryant came back she
felt for a moment as if she had missed
her way and got into beehive, there
was such busy hum.
I'm sure, try to be economical said
one young lady, teacher of music. Il
save dollar a weekwashing collars and
handkerchiefs. and that's what I'm GO
ing to give to the bazaar. l feel as if
had earned it, almost
And the bazaar is to help the poor,
said Miss Bryant, with that old smile ot
hers.
OF course
What kind of woman is your wash
er-wOman?'
oh, she's very respectable woman,
| assure YOU
Likely to come on the Relief Society
this winterp'
Certainly not, If she can help it. Bat
she may. for all that.
Now, my dear girl said Miss Bry-
ant, with her dancing 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 keep
ing your washerman beyond the need
of it's help, by giving her honest pay for
the only part of her work on which she
makes any real profit, than to put it in
to the soup house fund to help, you
don't know who, or how needy or de
serving they really arep Don't yon see
that you take honest bread to give to
possible impost0rsY
But, Miss Bryant, don't you approve
of the bazaarP Don't you think the
soup-house is good thingY
Yes, the strikers think so, feeling
suIe that their families will be helped
while they fight their employers. TIL
frontier towns think so when they have
foreign invasions of needy adventurers
One who has depended on the soup
house will depend again; and you de
much to encourage vice and idleness
No, girls! Have your bazaar. Enjoy
yourselves, and make yourselves prettt
and have a good time. God bless yor