Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-08-28
THE DOLLS
PARTY

Aunt Patience had drawn up the big
gest dolls table and put "A plate from
Ethefs tea set at each place. on eacl
plate she had put one chocolate crea m
This was enough for a good feast. fol
dolls take the tiniest little nibbes.
Aunt Patience sat at the head of IN,
table in her neat, gray Quaker dress
with the white kerchief over her Shout
ders and the close little gray bonnet
with the strings tied under her chin
Inc dolls looked at her affectionatelv
or course 1t was dark, but every bod,
knows that dolls can see just as wei
al night as they can in the daytime.
Il don't believe there is spot or
your dress yet Aunt Patience" sale
Jenny.
NO Ethel keeps me very nice nnd
clean, said Aunt Patience she i.
the most careful of all the children
She never drops her dolls in the dirt
and she washes and mends our clothes
and makes Us new ones when they are
worn out"
That's very different from Maud
said Lady Geraldine. shes very fond
Of her dolls when they are new. bun
when She has had Us little while ana
our dresses begin TO get soiled She
wants 70 throw us away and have q |
new one"
Yes, that's just the way she did
with me-" said Jenny.
But not wiz me-" said lively voice .
with funny little French acccnt-"not
wiz mo. She have love me now six.
eight what you call it, months"
'liut you are such a very elegant
doll Mile. Fiduc,' said Sir Lancelot
with low bow. rather stiff mt the
knees We can't AN come from Paris
You know or have AN our clothes from
there Most OF us are satisfied if we
have two or three things from Paris"
All this time The moon had been
creeping and creeping around the house
toward the nursery window. Just at
this moment she got to the window
and sent broad stream OF light in on
the floor
"Oh, the moon. the moon" cried all
the dolls. Now we can dance in the
moonlight Where's the professor? Pro
lessor, professor they all called at
once.
"Not ish de trouble?" called sleepy
'oice out Of the patrol wagon. The pro- 2
'essor was Il talented German musi- e
ian who always carried his violin with II
him. That day the Baby had put him e
n the patrol wagon and dragged him
ound and round for hours, till when
lie stopped the professor was so tired
hat he dropped down in the bottom
I the wagon and went TO sleep and G
al been sleeping ever since. He climb. "
q out or the end of the patrol wagon d
ow, rubbing his eyes and looking W
ather shamCfaced. al
"A dance, a dance, professor cried
II the dolls. See the moonlight. PLAY
$ a waltz
cry well, said the professor. con. p
some of you will have TO wind me 81
D. Terence stepped behind the pro- SC
'ssor ana wound him up, and then the nc
'ofessor lifted his violin to his mock y,
ld struck into a waltz. In a moment
the dolls were dancing. Sir Lance
asked Lady Geraldine rather timid-
> as II he were afraid he might get
ubbed. but she smiled aud seemed ist
lite pleased TO dance with him. Mile Fo
hne and Terence. Jack and Chloe xii
agile Eye and Jenny and Aunt Pa. in
nee kindly took little BERTHE. who fot
as so young that he didn't know how fer
dance very well. ed
Round and round in the silvery moon. an
ut they danced gayly, and the pro-
sor played and played the loveliest
rman waltzes till at last the moon Z
pt away from the window again Q
left il all in darkness. and then the the
Is were so tired that they could sna
'dly stumble sleepily TO their own VIII
Is before they tumbled down and bni
went 10 sleep. 10
he next day Ethel said TO Maud in ma
nursery: Mamma is going TO hive nv
rat catcher come. She heard the 49,,
Just racing and racing in here last 10
ht." "
IN "ii uhe dolls looked perfectly lab
)den. They never ernfIad N ~. ,ac,