The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17
AMONG CHILDREN.
Bah CLIMBS TO THE ROOF OF AN
INSTITUTION OF MERCY.

She Is Perfectly at Home There and
Helps 10 Make Paper VfctOrias,
Eugenies, CIeveIands and Lang
trys for These Crippled Tots
These Unfortunates Are Indeed
snugIy Housed-Great MerrIment
Among Suffering Young Ones.
People of Means should Help TO
Brighten the Life of Little suf-
ferers.
New York, March 16.-Most people are
getting ready to be married. but we are
not. We are cutting out paper dolls. And
when I say we" I mean my little Jew
friend IsadOre and your humble servant.
When 1 was very little girl, paper dolls
were esteemed Of some worth, but not very
much. Now they have reached a stage
Of magnihcence that makes them longed
for by all small people, who have a de-
hghtfui time playing that these beauti-
fully-tinted, well-dressed ladies and gen
tlemen are really and rightly" You
can buy a paper coach, with gentleman
correctly dressed driving a four-in-hand,
him, and various other members of the
royal family enjoying themselves getting
the fresh air, in their best bibs and tuck
ers. You can also. if you have money
enough, buy dinner table, properly
spread, with a lot of bowling swells sit
ting around it, and longing for the lus-
cious paper Dishes We weren't cutting
out that kind. 1t takes too much money
to permit the shipping into them. But we
were having a beautiful time cutting out
individual dolls; putting their clothes
on them,s and seeing that their back
hair was properly twisted up. Once Isa-
dore, who was doing the FASTING, got
Pocahontas' long, flowing. black locks
on Queen Victoria; but that wasn't as
bad break as putting Buffalo BilPs head
on the Daisy Queen Of Spain's shoulders.
However these little mistakes were rec
titled, and the large family of paper dolls
was ready to start out.
Where were they going? Up town on
corner almost in the heart of the city,
near where the noisy trains come in, is
a building that was put up by kind-heart-
ed people, that it might be home and
resting place for the little children who
couldn't run and jump and play like those
of yours whom you love so dearly. AL
though the elevated road is quite near it,
and the great station just on the other
side, these little people have a fine gar
den. 1t is way up on top of the house, all
closed in by glass, so that in winter time
there is enough warmth and in the sum
mer the glass top can be rolled back and
the of Sunshine fall the children
warm and golden. All the little folks who
are not in bed are helped to the elevator,
or are rolled there in chairs, and they go
up in squads to the big play ground. There
they have hammocbs and swings. and, if
they are boys. they play ball, and if they
are girls they have whole families of
dolls, who have a good time with their
little mothers. 1t is true no boys run af
ter the ball. but it is also true that, among
all these little people, there is not a single
crutch. The good doctor thinks that if
they can walk at all, they can do it slow
ly and without the crutch that would dis
tort their shoulders.
These are the people for whom Isadore
and L have been working. We had paper
dolls by the hundreds, and, in addition,
we had a wonderful book that was to be-
long to all the children for all time; but
for special times 1t was to be the proper
ty of that one who was most unhappy.
like unto the rainbow. The edges were
pinked in tiny points, and on every page
was pasted pictures of all sorts and con-
ditions of people, and dogs and cats and
ships, and everything that could possibly
interest a child. One page was great.
1t had a fierce-looking bulldog in the
center, while up in one corner, so placed
that they turned up their aristocratic
noses at a cherub pup in another corner,
was a group of fox terriers. Then, too,
there were pages with nothing but babies
on them; there were pages rich with
flowers and we believed that, unless a
boy was in great pain, he would al
ways find something to amuse him in
that book. When we got up there there
was much merriment going on. The lit
tie people were having a treat of iced
cream and cake. This pleasure was
given to them by a lady in the west,
lady who made me her almoner, and
whose kindness / have never been able
to acknowledge, because a careless serv-
ant destroyed her letter, and so her ad-
dress was lost. Her money furnished
iced cream for these little people, and an
other kind woman gave the cake, so that
they really had a party. When one is
young and sick and feverish, there is
nothing that tastes quite so good as
iced cream. And when one is young and
feels well, except for that bad leg, why
then there is nothing quite so good as
iced cream. After the party came the
paper dolls. The smallest girl of all had
first choice She took Queen Victoria,
baby in long clothes, and Mr.. Cleveland
riding a pony. AS she was only four
years old, her mistake in choosing Mr..
Cleveland must be set down to her youth.
Jimmy mad the next choice. Jimmy is
dear friend of mine, who according to
actual time, has been on this earth 8
years, counted by pain he has lived 100.
Always he is there in his little bed and
the pain is very, very bad when Jimmy
can't smile. The other day a lady gave
him a>pot of primroses. Two of the buds
have blossomed, and Jimmy felt him
self a rich man to-day because, though
he couldn't go up on the roof, his flower
went up and all the children looked at it,
They knew what were the old flowers
and what were the new, and they credited
the birth of the new entirely to Timmy's
influence.
Jimmy chose lady dolls He hasn't
very good opinion of men. He wouldn't
be where he is now if his father hadn't
kicked him downstairs once when he was
too drunk to know whether a baby of
three, or a piece of wood, were not the
same. Jimmy thinks that most men