Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-04
THE FREcKLEp.FAoEp GIRL.
How She Entertained Visitor While
Her "Ma" Was Dressing Upstairs.
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her INA" Was Dressing Upstairs.
Boston Globe.
MAS up stairs changing her dresss, F"
said the freckled-face little girl. tying
her dolls bonnet strings and casting her
eye about for a tidy large enough to
serve as shawl for for that double
Jointed young person.
sob, your mother needn't dress up for
me-" replied the female agent of the
missionary society, taking a self-sacri-
hcing view of herself in the mirror.
Run up and tell her to come down just
as she is, in her everyday clothes, and
not stand on ceremony"
"Oh, but she hasn't got on her every
day clothes. Ma was dressed up in her
new brown silk dress, cause she expect
ed Miss Dmmond to-day. Miss Dim
mond always comes over to show off her
nice things, and ma doesn't mean to get
left. When ma saw you coming she
said the Dickensp and l guess she was
mad about something. Ma said II you
saw her new dress she'd have to hear all
about the poor heather, who don't have
silk, and you'd ask her for more money
to buy hymn books to send to 'em. Say,
do you niger ladies use hymn book
leaves TO do their hair upon to make it
friZZy? Ma says she guesses that's all
the good the books do 'em, if they ever
get any books. l wish my doll was a
heather"
"Why, you wicked girl what do you
want of heather doll?" inquired the
missionary lady, making mental inven-
tory of the new things in the parlor to
get material for homily on worldly ex-
travagance.
$50 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 l want a doll
with truly hair and eyes that roll up
like Deacon Silderback's when he says
amen on Sunday. l. amt wicked girl
neither cause Uncle Dick-you know
Uncle Dick, he's been out west and
swears awful and smoks all the house
he says lin a holy terror and he hopes
I'll be an angel pretty soon. Mall
be down in minute so you
needn't take your coat off. She said
she'd box my ears If l asked you to.
Mas putting on that old dress she had
last year, cause she said she didn't
want you to think she was able to give
much this time, and she needed a new
muff worse than the queen OF the can
non-ball islands needs religion. Uncle
Dick says you oughter go to the islands,
cause you'd be safer there, and
the natives'd be sorry they were such
sinners If anybody would send you to
'em. He says he never seen heather
hungry enough to eat you, les twas a
blind one, an you'd set blind pagan's
teeth on edge so he'd never banker
after any more missionary. Uncle
Dicks awfvl funny and makes pa and
ma die laughing sometimes.
That's pretty cloak you've got,
amt it? Do you buy all your good
clothes with missionary money? Ma
says you do"
Just then the freckle-face little girls
ma came into the parlor and kissed the
missionary lady on the cheek and said
she was delighted to see her, and they
proceeded to have real sociable chat.
The little girls ma can't understand
why a person who processes to be so
charitable as the missionary lady does
should go right over to Mrs. Diamonds
and say such il-natured things as she
did, and she thinks the missionary
double-faced gossip.