The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-03-10
WHAT BLUSIE TURNED INTO.

Blusie wanted to be bad-think of
ihati She hated to be good, and she
despised .'prims" She told Paulina
so-close to her ear, in violent whis-
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= 1t might have broken Paulina' s'heart
to hear her say such dreadful things
only that she hadn't any heart to
break.
Perhaps that is one reason why dollies
never do have hearts--to save them
from suffering mental anguish when
their little mammas fly into a tempest
and say dreadful things to them. And
perhaps the reason why dollies haven't
any nerves is to save them from suffer-
ing physical anguish when their NAM
mas get into passion and throw and
bang them about.
Oh dollies! never wish to be alive!
You are better off as you are, without
life or feeling or hearts or nerves.
If Blusie's dolly had had heart, and
then OF course She had some brains to
go with it--well, if she had had, l think
Blusie wouldn't have sa d all the things
she did say to her. She would have
been ashamed to, for she said many
more cross, naughty things to Paulina
than have told you-oh! many, many
more. She said even more than usual
lately. for Blusie was staying with some
very prm folks. She told Paulina they
were very prim folks" so We'll let it
90 that they were prim, though l never
partic larry noticed it myself.
Well, these prim people tried B!usie
drcadfully she told Paulina. And
when you are tried, of course you are
apt to feel cross; and if 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 dolly?
That is about the way Blu.ie felt on
the su iect, though she'd never thought
it al out in words, this way. She only
Just felt it. #e.| - stuH..rst
You see, Blusie's mamma was sick;
she had gone long way off for her
| health, and these 'plim folks were
| taking care OF Blusie until her mamma
got we'll enough to come home aga,n.
This morning Mss Gregory called
Bluse back after she had got clear out
to the barnyard to see the new little
calf fed. She said: Nov, Blusie, come
right back and fold up your napkin,
and put it in the ring, and pick up
your bib-apron off from the floor, and
fold it and lay it over the back of your
char"
That why Blusie called Miss Gregg
~ a prim-in dollie' 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 Bluse's est sum-
mer hat. trimmed with white ri bon and
white curling feathers, laying right on
the parlor floor. 1t had cen there all
night. lust where Bluse 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 S
yard sitting under tree, playing have
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 bt
called in a second time that morning
just to pick something off from thu
floor.
She flew into regular passion. She
snatched up that best hat of hers by
one of the ribbons, rushed to the foo
OF the stairs, aud just flung the hat up
instead of carefully carrying it up stair
and putting it away in the handbook a!
Miss Gregory had told her to do
Wasn't that shocking? her best hat!
Miss Gregory was even more shocke'
than most people would be, for she wa
not very much used TO little girls, ant
she'd never even heard of one like this
But she did not scold; she just LEI
Blusie upstairs, made her pick the ha
up again and put it away in the band
box, and then She told Blusie she mus
stay up there alone until she felt Xix
being better-behayed gir.