Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-06


then have her hair curled and wear
one of her pretty afternoon dresses
il which she could never have a good
time for fear of getting it soiled
So Elizabeth walked slowly, ,slowlv
towards the house thinking what a
cruel world it was where little girl
could not play in the back yard all
Gay instead of just i'll the mornings
which were so unreasonably sh jrt and
| GeetinG
After her nap mamma put dres
o.. her which she disliked more than
any of her other dresses because il
had more than the usual supply of lac
&Ad ruffles and ribbons and she had t.
be esp0ndn2ly careful when shr
wore it,
NO.. Elizabeth" said mamma. Il
am going away for a few minutes and
! want YOU % be very quiet and 2ooal
| Yeu may Sit ont here Oh the froat
porch and look AZ Your picture books.
| Elizabeth readily promised to b.
geod ard she really thought she Va
going 20 be. But after awhile sit'iae
still and looking at picture book
became very moNotonous and her
thoughts turned yearnin2ly toward h~r
/ beloved back yard. The first thing
size knew she found herself ont hero.
but she only intended tn Walk UP anI
Gown Then she spied the little white
tent which papa brought home tho
right before and she remembered
how she had planned to make sum
lGer resort for Mariana and Guni-
yere She supposed the poor things
would have to wait another day now
lecausa she had had her baking to do
that morning. but it did seem a
shame for them to have to stay in that
stuffy soap box, even if one side of il
were open.
If she were very, very careful she
believed she could do it without soil
ing her dress and mamma would prob
ably be pleased when she came home
to see what she had done.
So she set up the little white tent
under the shade Of the Tree and went
III the house and brought mammals
pretty silver pie knife to dig a little
lake with Then she began to expert
ence a difficulty because the water
would not stay in the lake. so she
t1otted into the house and brought
cut hand-painted china berry dish,
which answered the purpose beautiful
ly after she had fitted 1t into the
81 ound and filled it with water. She
took the package of bird gravel which
mamma had bought that morning and
llade a walk from the tent to the lake
To complete the picturesqueness of
The place she ran in and broke a gen
erous supply ofb leaves from mamma's ;
fern and stuck them in the ground
around the lake.
She stood back and viewed her
|tandiwork proudly, when she heard
her mamma calling. "Elizabeth, where
are you?"
For the first time she glanced down
a. her dress and found that it was
dipping wet, and the pretty fluffy
trimmings were crushed and draggled.
Cheying her first frightened impulse,
she ran into the alley. and tripping
,Jn
stumbled and fell, regaining her feet
": h difficulty. She struggled vainly
/ 10 eXtricate herself from the wire. but
only succeeded in tearing the delicate
fabric of her dress more and more.
while the dust in which she had rolled
mixed with the water On the front of
her dress and made her resemble one
i of her own mud pies.
Mamma was entertaining callers in
tie paror and wondering where Eliza
beth could be. She supposed ashe had
become tired of sitting alone and had
gone to play with some OF her little
reishbors. OF course she was perfect
/
particularly dainty and pretty this af-
| ternoon that mamma wanted to show
| her to her callers, who had never seen
her.
Just as the ladies' were going away
and mamma stood at the door with
them, their attention was attracted
by a gathering noise. and they saw
queer looking little girl in a dirty,
5orn frock limping toward them, while
several feet of barbed wire trailed
in the rear.
'There is evidently a poor, neglect
ed child who has no one to look after
her. said one of the ladies pityingly.
81 have no SYmDathy for people