Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-10

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| @9$A .-NSA formation and could
| /HAwM Is MN AAsH not answer her at
| NkIxASLWNkN once, and that is how
| |fENN Va LaIXN\ l came by the follow
| ~ " EMN ing amazing exrosi-
| lN0l ton of the silver and
| NW IL ((NI' other questions which
| II VII M lu have heen stumbling
| & w blocks to statesmen
| since the foundation
VI 'he government, yet instantly
| understood by girls in their teens. The
| seven Slris-counting Elaine-whom as
| pody Dick has dubbed ny herd"
were In my room doing their 'slum-
ming sewing as they call it. They
meet one day in each week, and sometimes
ottener If the notion takes them to sew
Tor the poor little kids whom they have
| found in their charitable rounds. AS 1 ex-
pected, the task of engineering the remark
able efforts of these girls has at last fallen
urcn me. The girls have done and are do
ing some remarkably good work. There is
more than one poor home in this great city
where the fire burns brighter because of
coal money saved from a candy fund, and
red-kneed. frost-bitten-toed youngsters are
much less frequent in the sections under
the direct espionage of these girls. To be
| sure, the grocery bills in six well-ordered
homes have gone up enormously in the last
hve weeks. with n corresponding plethora
Oh provender,' according to Dick, in twice
| that many humble cottages
But this all came about through the indie
ratigable efforts of the 'nvincibles," who
nave given bravely of their own and helped
others to see their duty in a way that no
one else could have brought about so hap
PLY. In another but perhaps not so great
, sense, their work is also remarkable.
! They all want to sew. laudable enough
desire, but candor compels me to admit
that as seamstresses they will not illumi-
nate the armament to any vivid degree
though they all want to be stars. Jennie's
latest achievement was a frock for a two
year-old child. in which there was positive
| ly no avenue CT tngress or egress, as she
had sewed up every scam from neck to
| heels. Louise seems Indifferent as to wheth-
er sleeves are sewed in upside down or not
| W lille Bobbie is utterly impervious to the
| fact that embroidery has two sides and that
even charity child may have scruples
about appearing to wear its clothes wrong
/ side out. 1t remained for Mary. however
| TO add the halo to what the girls do not
/ know about sewing. L intrusted to her the
seemir gly easy task of cutting out some
aprons for little girl of five There was
, gingh0m enough 10 make five aprons and
| the little material that would be left / in
tended to use in making a little sleeveless
| clip for younger child. left the room to
! entertain a caller. and on my return Mary
gleefuly told me that she had been able to
get six aprons out of the Bingham, when l
| had only planned five.
Five Into Six.
zone for each day in the week, girls" she
announced proudly, and the herd" re-
sponded with one voice, How nice!" Nice
indeed! Every blessed one of those aprons
| was too short by at least six inches, and
she had cut them as narrow in proportion.
1T seemed such pity not to make Six"
she said in eXtenua lion of her economy
when by making them such a tiny bit
shorter and narrower 1 could use up all the
| cloth and save that waste: and you know
Sara, that every child should have at least
SIX aprons to change every day. l have
heard mamma say that lots of times, and
IL you don't make that many the child will
surely catch cold from leaving off it's apron
one day when it has no clean one. | still
| insist that was right, though it is too bad
| II L have got them too small OF course
have no logic that will reach case like
! that The charity of silence is the only
! thing that will fit the occasion. Fortunate
| ly, Boobies question set the ball rolling
and there was need for me to interfere
| Free silver" echoed Mary. Isn't that
what that tiresome Missouri man has been
fussing about SO long and obstructng the
| business of the House with
| You may call it 'fussing' if you like"
| said Dorothy, warmly. For my part |
call it pretty good generalship. In the face
of imminent defeat, both for himself and
his party, when the friends of the measure
begged him to let the silver question go for
the time. at least because self-interest SEEM
ed to have made towards of them, he stood
right there and said that he would continue
4 Tn Cfn eAt H.,
| Washington yet this winter before he would
abate one jot of his principles in the meas
| ure. 1t was because he was too good a gen.
eral to know when he was whipped that he
came through with victory on his banner"
| Dear me, Dorothy" was Mary's sur
| prised rejoinder, Il thought you were a
gold bug I'm sure that is what that
| southern member said you were Have Won
| come over to our side?"
Indeed, have not" was her spirited re-
| ply; but l always admire a man who has
| the courage of his convictions"
| But wasn't it your republicans who were
| making it SO harl for Mr. Bland?" asked
Mary. They flibustered. papa said until
he was actually afraid that they would
\ have to count a quorum to get any businesS
| done this session"
| Very simple When You Know.
| Count fiddlesticks!" said Dorothy, more
| forcibly than elegantly. You know very
well the republicans wouldn't make a
| grease SPol III lillS congress IL lie demo-
! Gratis had backbone enough to get together
| and do something. Ones afraid and the
! other dare not, that is all that ails the DEM
| ocratic party in Congress" At this June
| ture Bobbie complained that no one had
| given her any light on the silver question
| as yet, and l was not sorry that Dorothy
| was diverted from politics. She is a regu-
| lar tirebrand. 1t was Jennie who under
| took TO instruct the girls Il think you
| ought to know much about il as the rest
| Of us; l understand ii perfectly" BobDie
was meekly squelChed at this, but had the
| courage to declare that she could not make
! head tail of it, and she thought that a
| great many who talked on the subject were
| as ignorant as herself. Why it is not hard
| to understand these abstruse subjects when
! you really set your mind to it. You know
| l make a point of informing myself be-
| cause l like to talk to the congressman who
| visit papa" Mary went on Some of them
| have paid me the compliment of saying that
| l was really quite amusing. Now, on mat
| tiers of this kind / think it is always safest
| to take ones party platform. l don't quite
| understand why, but it seems that on silver
| the most of the democrats have abandoned
| their own platform and gone over to the
| populiStS'. | heard some gentlemen remon-
| strating with papa the night before the bill
| passed, and they told him that he was not
| standing by his party pledges, and he said
! he didn't have to; that the populist ideas
| about money and things just suited him
| 10Y pOul1 call II at