Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-09
"a JEAS
AGed4yr- OLD.

This Is 10y no means the only
grave ON which toys and such things
are t. be seen displayed On the
contrary neaEly every little mound
OF earth that CUyers a Chilt's collin
exhibits some relics Of the sort
NeaP hy 4. siiugic serving the
purpose OF a head stone, against
which IS tied with twine dolls
chair with china doll sitting in II.
The DOLLS dress has had all the color
washed out Of by the rain, but II
still sits there patiently. n II has sal
for many a month, waiting Tor Its
mistress &. pick il up when the day
-l:all arrive and carry il beinre the
| judgment seat.
ON a grave NOT far OF is a tin box
/ full 81 empty spOois-once Doubtless
used for piaythings to beglIile BABY
hnurs-and a mouth organ. Tied 10
another head boar Is a pair Of little
reius. and scattered over the mound
| are several dominOes. \ grave that
l. marked simply mo. l''-may bc
| the child had got no name-was
adorned merely with a stOppered
nursing bottle.
The nursing bottles seemed TO lie
0fail things the most frequent 1t
coratiOu Of the graves-certainly
the most pitiful. As a rule they
were partly filed with mud washed
into them by the storms. But they
were not 10y any means the only
kind OF bottles to be noticed on the
! mpunds. Medicine bottles were
there in plenty-enOugh, indeed, TO
. supp!y AN apcthcCary's shop with
| glassware. As well rs could be dis 3
covered. il was much the fashion to
place on grave all The medicine
bottles emptied by the decreased
during the lastand fatal Illness.
Thus one was enabled to sur
mise at glance whether OF
no; the sickness hal been very long
OF complicated. Some graves
would have only two or three bot
ties. while others would make ]
showing Of as many a. fifteen.
Many oil the msdieiue bottles on the
other hand were partly full.
One healhyaTd bore the epitapl:
cur baby slept away
ouIcllyt0 EulaH land
In shc sweet by and b..
On the grave were a rubber doll
a tin fire engine, very much Tustci
and little cti-a cat.
\ clIiUus thing found on one o.
! the mounds Was a cast oi human
foot in ordinary plaster Of the sor
that il U.sd igg house.. Ierhal'
the father Of the family vas III ina
business. Other casts Of angels ant
such things in the same rude ma
trria! were not infrequent. The mos
CONSPICUOUS object in the cemetery
Vas i huge hobby horse placed ovel
4 small toys grave. Many Jay
J doubtless. had he ridden on i &
Baubury Cross. \ pathetic orua
mcnt. washed down hy the rain
from mound. was a chilt's -ch0o
slate. Sticking up in thc mud b!
IT was g half used slate pencil. The
slate i.-ei' was broken.
One thing .ha. struck tsc Oh
,, s..-e- in l..r ry.I.tcry was that al
the a....;..a..sy GU'! articles q what
ever r.gsnr.i iI.E th.. decorated int
1 caves were without tAcspuot
broken a. deprived Uf their useful
ress ia o.hy! ways. Ifsuch had nj
teen the case they would be likely
.9 he CarIist away. Even a tn
basin on ole mound. red with rust,
vas punched flii % holes. \
starch lox On another grave Wa
full Of fragments % china dolls, and
even the nursing bottles wert
cracked. The big hobby horse had
lost its rockers anu every one Of the
sfatuettes were more or less mutt
lated. Coffee pots with their noz
zles knocked OF in very many case:
served the use Of pots for flowers
though no flowers were IN them, o.
cluIse.-W'gsLiiyiyH Star.