News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-19
POOR LITTLE KATIE.
A POOR MOTHERS ADVICE TO HEP
CHILDREN.
Katie ImprOvises II Mock-Luncb, Relates
Her story Affects Her Teacher to
Tears and Brings Home Relief.

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Mrs. Lowell, Katie's mother, was
seamstress, and there were many dav
when she had but little work to do, an(
the pay was always small-onIy a few
cents for a garment that she must worl
on the whole day long. But she strug.
gled hard to pay the rent and keep Tin
and Katie in school.
In school-that was the great thing.
"Plenty of money may come one day
little ones, she would say, but it viii
not be worth much if YOU do not know
how to use it. This is the most wonder
full country in the world, my brides.
Tim may be President, and Katie Mrs.
President, and you can't know too much
of school-books. I'm sure that, when
you're grown up, you can never be glad
and thankful enough that your mother
sent you regularly to school. So don't
mind the patched clothes, but keep at
the head of the class, if you haven't a
hat for your head !"
But the winter Katie was eleven wears
old, the brave little mother had less
money than ever before, and as the
spring-time came on they grew so very
poor that there was not always enough of
bread left after breakfast to make a
school-luncheonf for Tim and Katie.
L" Give it all to Tim" Katie would saw:
&" I believe I don't want anything at
noon." Poor little Katie! How hard
she tried to think that she was not
hungry! How empty her hands felt at
first as she trudged along without her
dinner ! And how her heart beat, and
how the blood burnt in her cheeks, when
the incoming came, and she of all of the
girls had no luncheon to eat Oh, if
anybody should notice it she thought,
and she studied how she might behave
that nobody should know she was so very
poor The hunger in her stomach was
not half 50 hard to bear as the fear that
somebody would know that she had
to eat.
But, after few days, poor Katie be-
gan to think that the girls noticed that
she brought no luncheon. Then she
thought that perhaps if she brought
something that looked like one, they
would never think about her eating it.
How she thought it all out, [ cannot tell;
but if any of you have ever been in trou-
bic and tried to think your way out Of it,
perhaps you may remember that you
thought of some very foolish and queer
things, and this was the way with Katie.
She might tie up few Goals in a paper,
she thought, but her mother would need
very coal to keep up the fire. There
we're some blocks in one corner Of the
small room-Tims blocks, that Santa
Claus had brought him one Christmas
wo or three winters before.
She could tie up some of those in a
,aper for make-beEeve luncheon, and |
nobody would know. So she tied up /
few blocks neatly, and when her moth
T noticed it as she started for school, |
nd asked in surprise what she had in
he paper, the poor child hung her head,
nj then burst INTO tears.
ooh, Mammal she sobbed, 81 wanted
o make believe that [ had some lunch
Onl y Tins blOck'sn'
For one moment the little mother did
OF understand, and then suddenly it all
anne into her mind-how the pride of
er child was wounded because she could
OF appear as the other school-children
id, and that she had fixed upon that sim
lie device to hide her want. And how
made her heart ache more than ever.
nat her poor little girl must go hungry!
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o. rs the teacher was TO give the child