Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-06-21
How Little Ruth Won a Pension ana
Doll.

How Little Ruth Won a Pension ana
a Doll.
| Mrs. Jones was too busy over tn.
| ironing table To notice little Ruth in bor
| rocking chair playing with her doll. Its
! Skhl was cracked and one of it's feet
gone. but old and battered as il was it
was beautiful in her eyes. There was
troubled look on Mrs. Jones face. and
every little while a sigh or ii groan es-
capped the mother lips, and this Alarmed
| Ruth.
Are you tired. mamma :"
| Yes. darling. | am very tired"
Mamma. Miss Gates saws Won
needn't work 50 hard when you get your
| pension"
There Is no prospect of my getting
a pension. The papers are at Washing
ton. but that is the end of the matter"
| The President could give you pen
| sion and lots of money if YOU couId seq
| him, couldn't lie mamma?'
Weary and sad as the mother was She
! could not help smiling at her child's
| fath IN the President. as she answered
| talking to herself more than to Ruth:
rs. darling, ever so many could help
me II they would. Everybody says I
! ought 10 have pension, but no one tries
! To get one for me. Lawyer Sleeper said
| he would get one for your father, but he
never did. | am sorry let him have
my papers. II | had them back from
Washington he would never get them
| again"
| Ruth sat and listened
| Mamma nm going"
"All right. dear: get out of this hot
! Kitchen into the fresh air"
ltuth put on her cloak aud hood and
| Went out. y great purpose had possessed
! her she would 20 To Washington aud see
! the President and get mammals papers.
! But when She looked up and down the
street She did net know which way to 20.
| She would wait till some one came past
! that she knew. and then inquire the way
/ 10 W aShIngton. She had not waited long
| before She saw Judge Brown coming leis-
! urcly M the street. He was very POM
| pouS man. the chief citizen Of the town.
! but he had often spoken kindly to her
| when her mother worked at his house,
and her face heamed with expectation as
| he approached; As soon as he was near
/ enough She halted him.
Saw, Mr.. Brown, which way is It to
| WHshmgton?"
! If full grown man had asked him
| such n question Judge Brown would
| have felt insulted, as he had only few
| weeks before been elected to Congress,
| after Il very exciting canvass. But this
child did not know of all that.
"WashingtonF' he questioned, what
do YOU know about Washington"
u want to 20 there and see the presi-
| dent and get mammals pension papers.
dent?"
"Id tell him that my mamma doesn't
get her pension, aud | want her to get
il. for she works SO hard that I'm afraid
shell. get dead lkeo, papa. she's tired
Ruth~ voice chokcd: she bent her head
down OF her dimpled, fat hands. and
the tears dropped on her doll.
Judge Browns eyes were full Of tears
loo, He remembered the father. Rcu-
! ben Jones. and that when the war broke
out Reuben Jones financial prospects
| were far superior 10 his own. But after
! the haldships of war he could do bat
! little, and he had married late in life,
and had left his wife aud little Ruth very
poor He had tried for years to get
! pension. but had failed, and now the
| widow was trying.
1T is a shame The way this man has
! been neglected aud left to die in want"
! he mntterod To himself. "If | do MOTH
! ing else, I'll try to get this woman
| pension while ! am in Washington
/ Turning to Ruth, who stood there
! watching him. he said:
| Ruth, it is too far for you TO go 10
| Washington: YOU would get lost; you
MUST stay ut home with your mamma,
but | viii 90 to Washington and get your
mamma S papers. is this your dolI' he
questioned touching the cracked skull
| frndrrlv. hopine she wnuld forget her
trouble for she looked disappointed. Her
face frightened as She held up The brok
en-. battered doll
"Yes. your Katie gave me This. never
had any hut a rag habv."
"Wrji. now. go IN ont of the cold and
warm your fugors and | win .,rt Tim
miners for Won, God bless your ha
snid, kissing her
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