The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-10
HOW BLUSIE BECAME A "PRIM'

BluSie Wanteu 10 ne Dau-lnlnk OF
that! She hated to be good. and she
despised "prims." She told Paulina
o-close to her ear, in violent whis-
per.
II might have broken Paulina heart
to hear her say such dreadful things
only that she hadn't any heart to
break.
Perhaps that il one reason why dollies
never do have hearts--to save them
from suffering mental anguish when
their little mammas fly into a tempest
AMI say dreadful things to them. And
perhaps the reason why dollies haven {
any nerves is to save them from sulor-
ing physical anguish when their NAM
mas get into a passion and throw and
bang them about.
Oh doliesl never wish to be alivel
You are better off rs YOU are, without
life or feeling or hearts or nerves.
II Blusie's dolly had had heart, and
then o course She had some brains to
go with it-well, If she had had. think
Blusie wouldn't have sa all the things
she did say TO her. She would have
been ashamed to, for she said many
more cross, naughty things to Paulina
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more. She said even more than usual
lately, for Blusie was staying with some
very prim folks She told paulna they
were very prim folks" so We'll let it
90 that they were priIp, though never
partic larry noticed 1t myself.
Well, these prim people tried B!usle
drcadfully so she told Paulna. And
when YOU are tried, of course you are
apt to feel cross; and ii you don't dare
say the cross things you feel to the ig
folks. for fear of getting punished. who
else can you say them TO but dol!y2
That Is about the way Blu 10 felt on
the su iect, though she'd never thought
it nj out in words, this way. She only
Just felt it.
You see, Blusie's mamma was sick
she had gone long way off for her
health, and the q ''p i'm folks were
taking care o. Blusie until her mamma
got well enough to come home again.
This morning M IS Gregory called
Blusie back ter she haG got clear out
to the larnyard to see the new lttl e
calf fed. She sad; Nov. Blus.c. come
right back and fold up your napkin.
and put il in the ring, and pick up
your bib apron off from he floor, and
fold it and lay it over the back of your
char.
That's why Blrsie called Miss Gregg
~ prim-in dollie's ear. Just for that
little reason making her pick up and
put away her own things.
About an hour afterwards the other
Miss Gregory found Blusie's est sum-
mer hat. trimmed with white ri bon and
white curling feathers, laying right on
the pa lor foor. 1t had cen there all
night. Just where Blus,e had flung it.
when she came home from the matinee
the afternoon efore.
So the .other Miss Gregory called
in Blusie This time she was clear
across the street, in Annie Sutherland :
yard sitting under tree, playing have
a party, with Annie.
Blusie was not used to picking up her
own things at home at all. She always
left them on the floor and Janet or the
mamma picked them up.
But the mamma had privately told
the Misses Gregory, before she went
away, that if they could, by any man.
ner OF means, break Blusie Of this habit
of throwing her things around, she
would be very grateful to them. She,
the mamma, had neither the strength
nor PATIENCE to do it herself.
Well, Blusie felt very indignant to be
called in second time that morning
| Just to pick something off from the
floor
She few into regular passion. She
snatched up that be;t hat of hers by
one of the rib ons, rushed TO the foot
Of the stairs, aud just l ung the hat up.
instead of carefully carrying it up stairs
and putting it away in the band box, as
Miss Gregory had told her to do
Wasn't that shockingp her best hat!
Miss Gregory was even more shocked
than most people would be, for she was
not very much used to little girls, and
she d never even heard of one like this.
But she did not sc Id; she just led
Blusie upstairs. made her pick the hat
up again and put it away in the band
b. x, and then she t Id Blusie she must
stay up there alone until she felt like
being better-behaved girl.
Blusie was very angry at first, and
that how she came TO be talking away
50 hard to Paulina that morning--tell-
ing her how she wanted to be bad, and
hated to be good and all that sort OF
thing.
Hut Blus;e never staid angry very
long. and pretty soon she began to be
| ashamed OF all the bad things she d
said to Paulna. She wished she had
not said them. and she was glad no.
body but Paulina heard her. So she
whispered in Paulina's ear: II didn't
mean any of the things l said to you,