Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-21
afraid you would never guess. so will

afraid you would never guess, SO will
| tell you. She thought: "Why, taere
is my old broom! Just the very thingr'
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 a broom, if such stump of
| 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
Ibid not wobble a 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 (by Dollie) out OF white cot
| ton cloth.
If Ruth could have spoken she would
| have told you that when she was new
| she had really considered herself love-
| ly 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
| p,xfh Ill e
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 a pair of heavy crooked
| shoulders.
She stood on tiptoe and looked so
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. that 1 might have that doll,
| but 1 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 that
| 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 than
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 TO honor her broom tree by
hanging Ruth on it.
She had just gotten Ruth comfortably
suspended by the waist when she re-
membered that there was bread and
cheese to get for supper, and tying a
thin wooden shawl over her head and
shoulders tDollie had no hat) she went
down the stairs and out into the street
The grocery was kept by German
known in the neighborhood as Hans"
There We're a great many people in
Hans shop, SO Dollie had to wait long
time, but she was used to waiting and
it was very pleasant to look at all the
nice things Hans kept for the people
who had money to buy them.
At last she did get her rye loaf and
cheese, and Hans went to a barrel,