Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-09-11
Boston Globe.l

Mas up stairs changing her dress,
said the freckle-fAced little girl, tying
her dolls bonnet-strings and casting her
sye about for tidy large enough to
serve rs shawl for that doutle.jointed
young person.
'sOh, your mother needn't dress up
for me-" replied the female agent for
the missionary society, taking q self-sat.
ieiled view OF herself in the mirror.
''Run up and tell her to come down just
~ she il in her everyday clothes, and
not stand on ceremony"
20, but she has not got on her every
day clothes. Ma was all dressed 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 be
left, When ma saw you coming she
aid, The Dickensl' and guess she was
mad about something. Ma said If you
ssw her new dress.sbe'd have to hear all
about the poor heather, who don't have
silk, and you'd ask her for more money
10 buy hymn books to seud 'en. Say.
do the niger ladies use hymn book
leaves to do their hair up on and make
it frizzy! Ma says she guesses that's all
the good the books do 'em if they ever
get any hooks. l wish my doll was a
heathen."
"Why, you wicked little girl, what do
you want OF q heather doll 7" inquired
the missionary lady, taking men al in
ventory of the new things in the parlor
to get material for homily on worldly
extrsvagance.
80 folks would send her lots Of nice
things to wear and feel sorry to have her
going about naked. Then she'd have
hair to frizz, and want doll with truly
hair, and eyes that roll up like Deacon
Shierback's when he says amen on Sun
day. amt wicked girl. either, cause
Uncle Dick-you know Uncle Dick,
he's been out West, and sNears awful
and smokes in the house--he says I'm
. holy terror and he hopes III be an
angel prettysoon. Mail be down in II
mlnu to, so you needn't take your cloak
ID. She said she'd box my ears If
Asked you to. Mas putting on that old
dress she had last year, cause she sald
she didn't want you to think she was
able to give much this time, and she
needed q new muff worsethan the queer
of the cannon.ball islands needed
religion. Uncle Dick says you oughter
10 to the islands, cause you'd be sat,
there and the natfs d be sorry they wal
suoh sinners any body would send you +,
en-. He says he never seen heath I
hungry enough TO eat you, less twas 4
blind one, an you'd set a blind pagan
teeth on edge so he'd never banker afte
any more missionary. Uncle Dick
awful funny, aud makes pa and ma di
laughing sometimes"
'.Your Uncle Richard is bad, de
prsved wretch, and ought to have re
manned out west, where his style Is ap
precisted. He sets horrid exsmpl
for little girls like you"
ssOh, i think he's nice, He shove,
me how to slide down the bannister.
and he's teaching me how to whist
when ma amt around. That's prett
cloak you've got, amt it! Do you bu
all your good clothes with missionar
money! Ma says you do"
just then the freckle.faced little girl
ma came into the parlor and kissed tn
missionary lady on the cheek and sai
she was delighted to see her, and the
procsedsd to have q real sociable cha
The little girls ma can't understan
why person who processes to be Z
charitable as the missionary agent doe
should 20 right to Miss Diamonds al
say such III natured things as she di'
and she thinks the missionary Is
dsubls-faced gossip.