The Monitor., 1890-04-04
UPSIDE DOWN.

Henrietta, said Helen Marcy.
| "What is the difference? They will never
know it; it is finished; throw it into the
box" the young girl replied. Nobody
| will know who made it."
"Yes, Henrietta, but when they open
the box at the mission, somebody will have
to rip it out and put it in again before it
can be worn"
'sThey ought to be glad to get anything
to put on those little vandals. Do you
suppose they would know whether sleeve
was put in upside down, or even wrong
side out, Helen?''
| Helen made no reply, as she saw her
companion throw the gingham shirt-waist
into the box that stood in the middle Of the
floor where the finished garments were de-
posted She would have taken the sleeve
out and put it in again herself, but she had
promised to finish off some other work that
evening, as the box was going in the morn
ing. These two young girls belonged to
the "Busy Workers Sewing Society" /"
They had been preparing box for char
| table institution In the city
Henrietta Fassett was one of those per-
sons who always did things, as her Aunt
Jerusha expressed it, 'in a whew." She
did not think it worth while to baste the
pieces of her garments together, for that
took too much time; so when she sewed
| under her mothers or her aunt's supervi-
sion, she was oftentimes obliged to rip out
the stitches, and do the work over again.
She had heard her aunt say hundred
times Lazy folks always take the most
pains, Henrietta" That afternoon she
was responsible to no one, so the upside
down sleeve was allowed to be sent off,
and that was all she thought about it.
Helen Marcy was entirely different in
that respect from her intimate friend, Hen
| rietta Fassett 1t took her longer to finish
her work, but it never had to be done over
again. She was responsible to herself and
| her own honor in such matters. II she
| had made the mistake that her friend
made, she would have sat up all night, if
needs be, to rectfy it. She always aimed
to do we'll whatever she did, and ever in
the very best manner she was capable of.
| The matron at the charitable institution
was very glad to get the box. There were
fifteen little boys in ragged garments wait
ing to put the fifteen new gingham shirt
waists on. 1t was such help, she thought,
to have them all ready to put on-no but
| tons to be sewed, and no fitting to be done,
and no running up of seams. Those new,
clean, pretty gingham waists all ready to
| be slipped over the boys shoulders. How
good and kind the BUSY Workers had
| been.
| Mrs. Leavenw orth, friend of Mrs. Mar
| cy's, was there to see the box opened, and
she was very proud to say that the box
came from the young girls of the town
where she spent her summers. One boy
after another stepped up to the matron and
had a new waist put on, and marched off
with smiling face.
Fourteen boys had been equipped and
sent off happy. Then the fifteenth boy
came up, he was thin, pale boy, with the
saddest of faces. The matron said he had a
very sad history. and some time she would
| tell Mrs. Leavenworth all about it. Mar
tin Beers stood by the box with smile
lighting up his face, he was going to have
a new waist, probably the first bright,
fresh new garment he had ever had. His
right arm went into The sleeve, but there
was something wrong with the set of it.
whats the matter with this sleeve2''
queried the matron. 80, see, it is put
| in upside down; somebody's made mis-
take. 1t will have to go to the sewing
room and be ripped out. The sewing-gir
is gone, too, this afternoon"
Mrs. Leayenworth saw the disappointed
look on the little fellows face. All the
other boys were in The play-room with new
waists on. and he would have to go back
again with his old torn shirt on. The lady
| laid aside her bonnet and wrap, and said
"Wait few minutes, Martin. and | will
| fix the sleeve;" and so the boy sat down
| on a stool by her side and watched her riI
out the sleeve and put it in again. 1t took
a half hour to do the work, but she told
| Martin some pretty stories while she was
at work. Then he marched off to join the
brigade with new gingham waists.
Henrietta had forgotten all about the
s'upside down sleeve" until the president
OF the Society raped on the table fort
night afterwards, and called the BUSY
| Workers" and takers to order. Then she
| read the letter Mrs. Leayenworth had
written about the box. She wrote how
needy the boys were, and how pleased they
all were with the new garments. But this
lady thought it best to tell the whole truth
as we'll as part of it, and so she added one
waist had to- be fixed before the boy could
wear it, as somebody made a mistake, and
put the right sleeve in upside down. She
| only mentioned it because she knew that
the waist would not have been sent so un
| less it was mistake. She also thought
! It would be q good thing to tell the young
girls, SO they would be more particular il
the future.
sWho could have made that mistake,
asked the president, as she stopped in the
| 1rI rod