The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-12-22
She was glad to think how happy all

She was glad to think how happy all
the children would be when they woke
up in the morning and found such
beautiful gifts close beside their pill
lows; and just then man came along
carrying a fir tree in his arms. How
lovely and green it looked! How beau
tiful it would be when lights were
shining all over it and dolls and drums,
boxes of sweets and gingerbread toys
were hanging from its branches! How
DOllie did wish that she could have a
Christmas tree, even if it was only just
a tiny little one. and as she wished an
idea came into Dollie's golden head.
What do you suppose it was? ! am
afraid you would never guess. SO will
tell you. She thought: 'Why, there
is my old broom! Just the very thing!'
Then she got up from her seat and
went back of the calico curtain that
divided the bedroom from the kitchen
and soon came back, first with chair
that had very holey cane seat, and
next with broom, if such a stump of
a thing can still use the name.
She put the broom handle through
one of the smallest holes in the chair
and made it firm by tying strings, first
round the handle and then about each
of the chairs four legs, and when it
did not wobble bit and stood up
straight, like the cigar mans wooden
Indian round the corner" Dollie
clapped her hands for Joy and thought
her tree something really worth hav-
ing
She had only one thing to tie on it,
and that was Ruth, her dear doll To
be sure Ruth was not much to look at;
her nose was broken; she had no hair
only one eye, and her arms and leg
were made Oby Dollie) out OF white cot
ton cloth.
IfRuth could have spoken she would
have told you that when she was new
she had really considered herself love
" doll, and it could not have been sim
ply her opinion, since the shop man who
owned her sold her to gentleman for
FIVE dollars.
Ruth's first little mother was not very
fond of her dollie children after she had
owned them little while, and poor
Ruth was tossed about in all sorts OF
unpleasant ways, until one day the
nurse swept her up with the play room
dust and carried her down in a coal
scuttle to the ash barrel and threw
her in.
The barrel was quite full, SO Ruth
lay on the very top of it, and who
should happen to come along but a very
little girl with pair of neavy crooked
shoulders.
She stood on tiptoe and looked sc
longingly at Ruth that big policeman
who was passing by stopped and asked
her if she was looking for anything:
II was wishing SO much, SIR" said the
little girl. shat might have that doll
but l suppose it belongs to the ash
! man."
The big policeman just lifted the lit
tie girl up and told her to take the doll
and welcome. and he would like to see
the ash man or any other man thai
| would take it from her. And SO Ruth
found a second mother in Dollie Jones
Such a beautiful life as she and Dollie
had lived for the last five years Ruth
| probably knew more about DOllie thar
| ally body else in the world, for she was
Dollie's only companion through all the
six days of every week. And now Dol
lie proposed 70 honor her broom tree by
hanging Ruth on it.
She had just gotten Ruth comfortably
suspended by the waist when she re