The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-11

"Ma's up stairs changing her
dress said the freckled face girl. ty-
ing her dolls bonnet string and cast
ing her eyes about for a tidy large
enough to serve for a shawl for that
double jointed parsonage:
20, your mother needn't dress up
for me- said the female agent of the
missionary society, taking a self sat
isfied view of herself in the mirror.
"Run up and tell her to come down
lust as sheis in her every day clothes
and not stand on ceremony"
20. but she hasn't got on her ev-
ery dsv clothes. Ma was all dress
ed up in her new brown silk, cause
she expected Miss Dimmond to-day.
Miss Dimmond always comes over
here to show off her nice things and
ma don't mean TO get LETT. When
ma saw you coming she said, The
dicken. p and / guess she was mad
about something. Ma said if you
saw her new dress, she'd have to
hear all about the poor heather who
don't have silk, and you'd ask her
for more money to buy hymn books
for 'em. Say, do the niger ladies
use hymn book leaves to do their
hair up on and make it frizzy? Ma
saws she guesses that's all the good
the hooks eve do 'em, if they ever
get any books. | wish my doll was
a heather"
"Why YOU wicked little girl, what
do you want with a heather doll?'
inquired the missionary lady, taking
a mental inventory ofthe new things
in the parlor to get material Tor a
homily on worldly extravaganza
$50 folks would send her lots OF
nice things to wear and feel sorry to
have her go about naked. Then
she'd have hair to friz, and | want q
doll with true hair and eyes that roll
up like Deacon Sliderback's when
he saws amen on Sunday. | amt a
wicked girl, either, cause Uncle Dick
you know Uncle Dick, he has been
out west and swears awful and
smokes in the house-he says I'm a
holy terror and he hopes I'll be an
angel pretty soon. Mall be down
in a minute, so you needn't take
vcur cloak of. She said she'd box
nv ear if | asked you to. Mas
putting on that old dress she had
last wear. cause she said she dldn'l
want YOU TO think she was able to
give much this time, and she needs
a muff worse than the Queen OF the
Cannon Ball Islands needs religion
Uncle Dick says you oughter 60 tc
the islands, cause you'd be safe
there and the natifs'd be sorry they
was such sinners that anybody'o
send you to 'em. He says he nevel
seen a heather hungry enough tC
eat you, less twas a blind one, ano
you'd set a blind pagan's teeth on
edge so he'd never banker after any
more missionary. Uncle Dicks aw.
full funny and makes pa and ma dl'
laughing sometimes"
"Your Uncle Richard is bad, de
PRAYED wretch, and ought to have re
manned out west where his style
appreciated. He sets a rorrid ex
ample for little girls like you."
20, think he's nice. He showed
me how to slide dow the banisters
and he's teaching me to whlstl'
when ma amt round. That's
pretty cloak you've got, amt ii? ID,
you buy all your good clothes witt
missionary money? Ma says you
do"
Just then the freckled faced it'll
girls ma came into the parlor ant
kissed the missionary lady on tn
cheek and said she was delighted t
e her, and they proceeded to hav
a real sociable chat. The little girl
ma can't understand why a persoI
who processes to be so charitable a
the missionary does, should 60 RICH
over to Miss Diamonds and sa,
such i'll natured things as she die
and she thinks the missionary is
double faced gossip.