The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-07

LOOKING wisuuisS over the
- mo. don't" said Dottie.
''why--why nots"
Cause" answered this nnthinking
miss OF 5; ''you are not just the kind OF
girl | like"
''why--why mott" came the wondering
question again.
Dottie didn't reply In words. but her
+. little nose went up as she looked NJ the
other girls faded calico slip the heavily
darned stockings and the boots out at
the toes. Then she looked with a salts
fed air down at her own handsome
frock. the dainty stockings of silk. and
tho brand-new. graceful boots on her
feet. She brushed back the clustering
brown locks under her pretty picture hat,
and said
Jennie Long. you go and play with
your own kind Of girls. You can't come
In here"
And Dottie ran on up the path. while
Jennie, looking guilty and feeling as II
she had done something wrong. stood
quite stiil, while big tear trickled down
either cheek
she don't like me. cause hain't got
such good clothes" sobhed the child,
miseraby. Then she, ran away down the
street As soon as she was out OF sight
n man who had halted unseen behind
some bushes nearby stepped out.
80 my little girl begins to think abe IA
as good as her clothes7" wondered Mr.,
Emerson. aloud. II am afraid she isn't
for this Is not the first time she has
turned up her nose at poorly-dressed
children II ought TO be the last. though,
and / mean 10 make II so. II can
Then Dottie's papa went on 10 fnd her
mother They had a good long talk to-
gether. but Dottie. who had climbed the
fence and was playing with Mabel Ewing.
n girl as well dressed "a herself, knew
nothing OF this. Nor was anything said
al supper But when the meal was over
and Mr.. Emerson sat on the front steps
smoking his cigar, while Dotte and her
mamma sat nearby. Mrs. Emerson looked
down at her little girls pretty frock.
''Dottie. wonder II the fairies are sat
ished TO see YOU have such pretty little
dresses"
The fairies. mamma7'' asked Doftie.
looking up in surprise. What have they
TO do with it7"
when was a little girl" said her
mamma. II heard something about the
fairies who go around to see II little
girls are worthy 81 their nice dresses"
Then there must be a good many little
girls the fairies don't like" said Dottie.
quickly Some Of the girls In our school
never have anything a, 90 wear. They
Took just horrid all the time. ! never
play with such girls.
WHY asked her mamma. do you
think YOU are better than TREY ere7"
II have better clothes than they have
answered Dottie.
And that il Jus, why the fairies may
take them away from You some night
limited her mamma. n am sorry my
little girl should begin TO feel that her
dresses make her better than she Is.
- a
Dottie, Of course, soon forgot II all The
time came for her 20 10 "a bed, and abe
was tucked in and sent to the land ~
Nod The next she knew u was morn-
ing and her papa was calling 81 tho door.
Rubbing her eyes, Dottie jumped cut ~
bed She ran TO m. chair where ber
clothes lay. Then she stopped, and
rubbed her eyes all the harder
what could have haprenedT For there
on the chair were the cheapest kind ~
cotton UNDERGRADUATES, peor+tooking cot
con stockings clean and whole but
very unhanassme bingham frprk ON
one post 81 the chair huns a perfectly
plain strsw hat. Ard on the nonr hsNide
The chair were a pair az rough boots with
copper toes
Dottie's cries brought her mamma into
The room
Where arc an my pretty shlngsr'
sabhed ihr litsie miNs
Do,tis's mamma seemed TO very much
surprised
"why. can the fairies have bren sersf'
she sskef.
ssNn, they haven't sabbed Dottie,
, And 7 don't care Y they have. i've Raf
plenty ~ ether things Oct them for me.
Do,tis's mother buried IN me cup.
hoard. the sareNu sna the chiSoulsr
Not a hlt ~ ,he Emery that Was there
yesterday ~as left
|ff ,oass very much said her rnamsna
seriously. "as II he fairies had taken All
rour riee things ard given their - 9thsr
Kiris whor, they thought were better
| than YoSl
@Are vss two coming sown % brssf.
fast soar called Mr. Emerson from
the seoi - the stairs
"pnpsx Ia hurry Yeu masi get
| Creased quickly, poftis
n wansf post ar thasHmfhoFs Awfai
harrely thsngs~ s0bbe4 he iffsin wir
| tsoin,ing 81 ne clothing pn 'se chair
ugf $40 asS 80 gtfsf sNe sarns. her
rrarrns hsipinE her ~ fstss Ard thsH
reA-eyed she wns tsssn aavH a. the
table where she tearffiiY ted hsr ssf.
prised father wis; had bappsHsd Nr.
| Eusraqn vas vsrs EcFrY bat said Il WAS
| quite plain that shs fairies had been AZ
/ uow safnYlxea Nora locked phsn she
I eannn fs @8th fhs hfeNkfaNt ard ssw
What 3 plainly dressed iiiils airl ~4c had
10 wait en- Datiia feit Ike aiding undsr
she table Bur thf woFrt uae when y
( came tire 70 50 % school p9itis fatty
refused ard said she wouldn't until shA
could have some decent clothes. She had
"a go fhouxh for her Marina soak her
| by ne hand. How the other girls stared
al her harnstv Grfss'
There 5ennle Long. with one ~ my
/ rice dresses on and--oh. one u my nice
| hats" whlspegs9 Dsttie as JsaGis came