The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-15

IOu0u EuUG drawing OF Two DdD -
looking smilingly at each other-aL
least IT had been intended that they
should be looking smilingly at each
other-one with very round eyes, nose
and mouth. and plain dotted slip; the
other with indistinct features, but a
most deliberately embroidered dress,
over VIII ch foated an immense sash.
Underneath the picture was this
verse:
''EOu are such a pretty girl
With your lovely hair and curl
With your lovely eyes of blue
How i wish that ] was you.
And underneath the verse was the fol
lowing letter:
DEAR YoU~G LADY, am poor
little g-rl and Tm Lame too because
Of a dreadful fan I got once and broke
have saw me sittin cross the way from
your house ON the church steps with baby
HesC awful heavy but hese good but cant 90
to school cause ] have to mind him and he
wants to be mu-cd ever so mulch but hese
NV AlouzO that's my babys name is a begin
min to g TO sleep erly and if had some lde
be glad. named him out of a story read
once and thort may lie you had some pick
lures and books You didcnt want no more and
You might give them to me. l wrote this
wnodeEs 20 with curl and Idrawed the babies
] coodent make his face right cause / never
seen him close, but think MS dress is rlght my
mother washes dresses like them sometimes.
did it when AlonzO was asleep be don't g. eep
mu ch days hese q very lively baby but heS2
good. If you will let me have me of your
old pcNturas and books will thank you ever
SO much and so viii AlOnZO when heSe big
cnuf cause he rely is a very good baby GOIr
baby nurse told me your name and she say S
your baby is a sugar plum from Heaven.
"ELECTA ELIZA GOOGENS."
''What a queer valentinen' said The
odora laughing, as she finished read
ing it.
what a nice Ouen' said her mother.
g Far above half of those all lace and
nonsense that you have received to-day.
And, Dora, those babies are drawn bet
ter than you could have drawn them.
Yes said Theodore, frankly, they
are"
$50 it appears this poor child has
more art site talent than YOU"
- And the verse is but little worse
than l might have done myself. II
save YOU the trouble of saying that
mother" sa d the daughter, m rrily
and so she may stand just as good {
chance of becoming a writer or an art
jst as | do, she being so much younger
Poor little thing, Eve seen her sitting
on TIE church steps, with the baby tina
is so good many time, but | an
ashamed to say l never gave her sec
oud thought"
And vet, my dear" said Mrs
,Judson, " there was your mission RICH
before your eyes waiting for you to tax,
it up. Help this poor child to the learn
inc for which it is evident she longs t.
reach Give her and AlOnzo SOM
happy hours. And who knows?-yOI
may at the same time be helping thu
world to a noble woman and a nobl
man, and what greater work than tina
could be fOund?'
Il viii, mother-dear. wise, goo
mother, / will, " said Theodore, and sh
few to the window and beckOned t.
Elecsa Eliza, who had Eesumed tn
charge OF AlOnzo, and although tn
snow was falling fast, sat under tn
church porch, with AIOnzO, wrappe
in an old wooden shawl in her arms.
And that was the beginning of tn
'.Star in the East Mission School.
, From one little girl and baby it gre7
in a year to forty children small an
, large, and now-for the valentine wa
sent and the mission founded sewers
years agO-a hundred and more bles
! the name of their pretty young teache
and friend, Miss Theodore JudsOn, an
look up with affection and pr de to he
clever assistant, still younger than hcl
! self, Miss Electa Eliza GOOgens. Mas
quTCt EVtiBgc.