Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-25

clothes, and wishes she might grow
up exactly like her and have the same
kind OF things. Two summers ago
Cousin Charlotte had hat which Elsie
considered quite the most charming.
bit of millinery she had ever seen.
1t was made OF lace, straw andssscar-
let peoples, and went by the name Of
1.-THE Paris hat" because Cousin
Charlotte, who was abroad the year
before, had bought it at shop called
the Magazin du Louvre. in the fam Gus
city where the fashions are created.
Elsie knows good deal about the
shop, and something also about the
palace of the Louvre, opposite which
it stands, for her pretty cousin is very
obliging and never seems to tire of
answering questions and telling
stories.
Last spring Cousin Charlotte de-
cided that ''the Paris hat was too
shabby for another seasons wear, so
she ripped it to pieces and gave the
poppies to Elsie for her dolls bonnets.
They had been beautiful peoples,
made of the finest and softest silk, and
looked as if they had just been gath
cred in some sunny French garden.
Elsie thought they were beautiful
still, though they were trife droop-
ing and dusty.
She took them to her room and be-
gan to gently shake and brush the dust
from them. But all at once, as she
was admiring them and planning how
she should use them, something put
an idea INFO her head so fascinating
that it drove the dolls hats and every
thing else quite out of her mind.
An hour later Fred and Percy, COM
ing down the garden. found Elsie,
very warm and rosy, working over q
fowerbed
"Hello" cried Percy. whats
up?"
Elsie is not very fond of gardening,
so the boys were naturally surprised
to find her grubbing away so busily.
''What are you doing, Miss MuffetT -
asked Fred, coming nearer.
Elsie stood up, flushed and painting.
'Im done now" she said; but
I've been planting some seeds"
"What kind ?"
"Poppy-seeds."
Poppy seeds Where did you get
them ?" said Percy, who thought he
knew all about the garden stores and
had seen no poppy-seeds among them.
81 got them out of the peoples that
used to be on Cousin Charlottes Paris.
hat" Elsie looked TRANQUILITY at the
boys, who burst into shout OF
laughter.
"Why, you dear little goose, they
won't come up" said Fred
"Why not ?"
Because the seeds of artificial
flowers can't grow"
''Tm going to see if they won't"
said Elsie.
The boys went off together laughing.
Seven years old, and not to know that
seeds from artificial flowers wouldn't
come up But perhaps you couldn't
expect anything better from girl.
Elsie did not seem to mind being
laughed at, and went on watering and
tending her seeds.
Mamma tried to explain to her chat
it was of no use, and offered to buy
her some poppy-seeds at the florists,
but Elsie refused them. She wanted
to see if these would not grow.
She was so diligent and persevering
that the rest of the family began to
pity her. !,
''Poor little thing - said Cousin
Charlotte. cts too bad for her to be
so disappointed. I'll get some real
seeds and plant them when she Is
asleep, and she need never know the
difference"
Butmamma said "no." She thought
the disappointment would be better
for her little girl, though she, too,
was sorry for her.
Several more days went by, and
then one morning Elsie startled the
whole family by running into the
house and announcing excitedly that
her seeds had begun to come up.
OF course no one could quite be-
lieve it.
Weeds" said Fred, with asuperior
air. "What baby it is J"
But the supposed weeds soon proved
to be indeed a row of undeniable
young poppy-plants, and then it was
Elsie's turn to exult.
Il was almost sure they would come
up" she said ''for 1 saw they were
real seeds, even if they were stuck in
some artificial flowers. Perhaps you
couldn't expect boy to think of
that" she added, pointedly, and then
she Rugged Fred and promised him
the first flower that came out.
Elsie had plenty Of red peoples that
summer, and this year the grandchil-
dren of the Paris peoples are nodding
their bright heads in her garden as if
quite proud of their French descent -
Youths Companion.