Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-10
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A 'StrusgItns MOther' TeIis Nhat Sn
Did Ia Make Her Children Happy.
can syrnpathize fully with ''strue
Cling mothers" for |. too, am widoN
for the past year My children numbe
seven the Oldest now thirteen. tn
youngest baby of fourteen months
Unable to find shelter for them in tn
city. have been compelled to come to
country place, where the ways of earn
ing a living for them are very limited
but where they can find liberty an,
health
We had been thinking of Christina
all the year. and even while the summer
was with us we began to make an(
gather the things together to make our
selves and others happy.
For baby took a lot of rags, and BY
pounding and firm sewing made these
into ball, which covered with orange
and blue worsted in melon shaped stripes
My eldest girl made him a rag baby
with painted face, while the second pre-
pared leaves of cambria, and on these
pasted all sorts Of pictures-the brighter
the better.
| For Charlie, our man, had carpen-
ter prepare me four solid wheels with
merely hole in the center. These
mounted on cross pieces and attached to
small box, with u long stick as handle,
the whole painted red, with the words
Good Boy in gilt, pleased him well.
Robbie paid one cent for a card of SOL
diers; these she cut out, pasted on pieces
OF cardboard cut to the same shapes and
glued to small pieces Of wood to make
them stand upright. They formed a
regiment for the same little fellow. A
born for two cents he got from Emma.
Nellie, my little one Of five years, got
doll made of rags, dressed as a real
baby and with a cap on, from Robbie,
while screwed some molding to
high and low piece of board to make
bed. Instead Of Stats bored holes down
tho sides and wove strong Irvine back
and forth. Mattress, pillow, sheets and
spread complete the gift.
Sadie, seven years old, got a rag
body with real head and dressed with
clothes that have real buttons and
buttonholes. She also received o doll.
house, made of box, with windows and
doors cut out This is painted on the
outside and papered within. The kitchen
has paper on the floor vanished over. a
stove for ten cents, table made of a
spool with square Of wood glued on
and little shelves to hold the tinware
that costs five cents. Tho parlor has
small piece of carpet, furniture made of
spools upholstered, the foot rests being
spool sawed into two.
For Clara. nine years old, deep box
nicely covered made into workbox.
with scissors that cost ten cents.
your shoe dealer gives Won.
two crochet hooks for five cents, small
pincushion and a needlebook. A small
box of pasteboard neatly covered with
'rlnkled tissue paper, with three hand
ierchiefs made of lawn, nicely scalloped.
Gather stitched, with initial in tho cor.
Ter, she got from sister Robbie.
Emma also received a mate to this box.
Two books-"Life of Josephine" and
Mr.. Rutherford's Children--that one
lay bought at IA secondhand stand for
i've cents apiece form the presents she
rot
For Robbie, my thirteen year-old girl,
gave nfteen cents to a carpenter for
ONE pieces of board, in each corner of
which he bored hole. These, strung
ogether by the aid of brass vestibule
cd, a cent a foot, and empty spools,
ormed the hanging shelves or cabinet
he long wished.
10 lessen this expense l might have
lsed rope If wished. Nicely painted
White, with every spool gilded, it looks
cry pretty.
Two peach baskets fastened together.
With deep ruffie of turkey red and nice
lined, formed a workbasket for nv
christmas present
we thought of others, too, for that
Apply day. Old Mrs. Sprague, a help
sss cripple, got worsted cape, while
llkolene head rest and foot rest made
I box mounted on four doorstops,
overed nicely and with frill about it.
leased the old gentleman.
These complete the list of the things
re prepared for Christmas. But | can ,
link of many more for young and old :
'hich would demand much work. but .
tile cash.
Inc woods gave US tree and strings ,
green. The dried grasses, wheat and )
1t sprays gathered in the summer and $
ed with strips Of turkey red made the !
ouse look gay :
A cross rudely constructed, covered ;
18th rock moss and bright lichens, with :
wreath OF holly thrown over it, formed :
lie mantel ornament for that day :
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