Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-09
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This Is 10y no means the Only
grave ON which toys and such things
are T. lie seen displayed. On the
contrary nearly every little mound
OF earth that CUyers a Chilh's collin
exhibits some relics uf the sort
Near 10y j. sbiugie serving the
purpose OF a head stone, against
which IS TIED with twine n dolls
chair with china doll sitting In H.
The dolls dress has had all the color
washed out u il by the rain, but II
still sits there Patiently. n II has sal
for many a month, waiting Tor it,
mistress &. pick il up when the day
-I.all arrive and carry IL before the
judgment seat.
ON grave no; far oil Is a tin box
full 81 entity -poois-Once doubtless
used for piaythings to beguile baby
hours-and a mouth organ. Tied 10
another head bUari Is a pair Of little
reius. and scattered over the mound
are several dumin0es. \ grave that
i marked simply NO. may be
the child had got no name-was
adorned merely with a stOppered
nursing bottle.
The nursing bottles seemed TO lie
sfall things the most frequent tI-
coraiiUu Of tae grayeS-certainly
the most pitiful. As a rule they
were partly filed with mud washed
into them by the storms. But they
were not by any means the only
| Kind OF bottles L. he noticed on the
mounds. Medicine bottles were
there in pleuty-enUugh, indeed, to
supply AN appthccary's shop with
glassware. As well as could be dEs
/ covered. il was much the fashion 10
place on = grave al The medicine
bottles emptiei by tue decreased
/ during ;hg last and fatal Illness.
Thus one was enabled TO sur
mise at glance whether or
/ ,ut the sickness hal been very long
OF complicated. Some graves
would have only two or three bot
ties, while Others would make 4
showing of n many a. fifteen.
/ Many OI the medicine bottles on the
other hand were partly full.
One hea,lglsarl horc the epitaph:
eur baby slept away
ouciiyt0 Euiza land
In shc sweet by and BE-.
| On the grave were a rubber doll,
a tin fire engine. very much Tusiej,
! aI.G "a little Cili-G cat.
\ clIiCUs thing found on one Of
] the mounds S.t- a cast " q human
I foot in ordinary plaster Of the sOr'
that il L-ei igg house. Perhaps
the father If the family vas III thai
business. Other casts Of angels anu
such things In the sane rude ma
t,ria! were not infrequeut. The mos'
| CONSPICUOUS Object in the cemetery
wls 4 huge hobby horse placed over
a small toys grave. Many a day,
doubtless. had he ridden on j q
! Raubury CrJs~. = pathetic oTna'
I mcnt. washed down 10y the rain
from a mound. was child's school
l slate. Sticking zap in usc mu3 10y
r. was q half used slate pencil. Tie
slate i.-el. vas broken.
One thing :ha' struck tie Oh,
S. ger ia llr cemetery was That all
Tie. 8....;..s.:.,y nu,! articles a what
ever t.isaI.l sI.E tH-. decorated tue
i.ravu, were without deception
/ broken 90 deprived yf their useful
uass ia a:h,E ,.ays. lfsuch has nui
/ teen the case they would Ike likely
.8 I've carIied away. Even a tin
BASIN on one mUuuI- red with rust,
vas punched fall Of holes. \
starch loz ON another grave WA,
! fall Of fragments oCchina dolls, and
even the nursing bottles were
cracked. The big hobby horse bad
lost it, rockers anu every one Of the
sfatuette> were more or less mutt
lated. Con,e pots with their uoz'
zle, knocked oil IN very many cases
| served the use Of pots for flowers,
though no flowers were in them, Of
cluIse.-Wudigy,y1 Star.