The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-18
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at fifty cents ii week? You go way. back
an ca on something soft!"
You set on yo own head. that's soft
y nun 10 pcltc n rotten lNlna,ia through It.
u wisht Youlinf no tnlk of that Cla'st-
3 kind,' sighed Nina fIaversten drearily.
E "Its like 10 talk OF pic when there ain'd
no pie. an YOU all ono beeg hole insidcs.
] w!sllt folks didn't haf to haf Christmas
what ain'd no Christmas, / wisht.", u
III "Fi, Here's Southy! ut-cut-cut-ker-
iar.-ct,t, Cquck Clncli. hi You, Henry
Carver. You Southy, you'll Don't be so
stuck up. Wot price them rcd checks?
Where you goin'?'
Kenny faced, the group about Joe Bain's
peanut cart. and her checks waxcd rcd
der. AS a aonthorner. who said "cyars"
& and "cvarpot," and whose mother sup
5>orted her, she was not popular and the
eyes bent upon her held 1nockery, but
der brilliant nerve would out.
I'm a-goin,'' announced she In a voice
that excitement made shrlll instead Of
tremulous. .1'm a-goin to work In Dell
toms toy store for Christmas.
Then she passed proudly OH conscious
at last Of having produced n sensation.
It had all been arranged two nights
before by q kindly woman who worked
with Henny's mother In one of the big
sweatshops. She had come across from
her own garnet to make a cup of tea for
a the i'll woman and had found her 5Wr1tll-
inE, fearless under the thin bedclothes.
with Henry sobbing In her arms. There
was no fire. There was no light. A
street lamp shining through broken
blind made n 1ingy. yellowish streak on
the smoked ceiling, Outside and inside the
thermometer stood at twenty degrees
Fahrenheit. Sd
Then followed that thrilling kindness
of the poor to the still poorer-the loan
Y OF fifty cents the assurance that she
Mrs I.atid, had reel, nice young lady
friend in Delton's toy store who had
told her that they needed all the help
3 that they could get, about putting up and
tying parcels. etc. for the Christmas
& holiday season. and that Hcnny being
"a reel smart little body" she Jest
knew that she could get her job. AS
for Henny's being only nine, why she
looked fourteen If she looked day! she
s could easily get an age certificate etc.
But what stranger or even irlena coulu
have intcrmeddled with the Joy OF Hen
q ny's heart! To work In her turn for: her
mother. To be Of some use at last! To
he able to talk among the other over
worked little beings about her. OF my
work, my boss no matter how tenn
1orary they might be. All, well! The
child had been carefully cherished. Flow
should she know OF the breathless labor.the
killing hours, the hungry envy that
gnaws little, empty breasts III the mi ost
Of thousands Of lovely things that may
not even be touched save when prepar-
Ing 10 send to those more fortunate?
no, there was no alloy in Henny's glee-
FIJI aprf9e Besides, was shcS not going
TO Doll-land? The land of many dreams,
Y or golden desires What fairy!and and
fairies mean TO happier children, these
7 the 10y shop and its dolls meant to this
little waif.
10 have a DOLL This thought was al
most beyond her power Of realization, but
\ Ia be near those enchanting creatures.
+ that she had seen untll now only through
the cold medium Of plate glass perhaps
10 touch them and lay them softly In their
tissue paper beds or put their pretty
clothes in order!
She trembled SO as they entered the big
shop that Mrs. Iadd offered her n moth.
i ery slawl-end
BY the glad coincidence that presides
some times even over the destinies Of
Henry Carvers. the "ree nice young lady
FRIEND held sway behind the doll coun-
4 ter. Never had the child imagined such
tlrongs of varying puppets. There were
'.lifc-sized" dolls and Infant dolls. and
"slilart lady dolls; dolls In wax, in
china, in composition; dolls with flowing
hair with fashionable cultures and pro-
nounced ''pompadours,.' with locks paint.
ed In snug curls on their porcelain fore
heads. Dolls that walked and moved their
\ heads, and talktd--fron the primitive
mamma" and papa genus to that
phonographically constructed. The lat
ter rather repealed than attracted Hcnny.
She could hear them saying so much
nicer things inside her head. They bloom
ed on all SIDES from boxes. on strings
i'll tiers, rows and pyramids, like un as
Fl sortment of big orchids with waXen hearts
and satin petals They Eazed mildly, II
vacuous.y, with many tinted eyes, or
Slept sercns.y, their spotless lids furled
amid an oval of generously stippled
y laehes.
From the first. however. there was one
tllat drew Henry with potent magic. 1t
was RIO Delton only "ftfty-ccnter,''
hut to- Henry II was nothing more nor
less than beauty made visiblc--a plump
little poppet in single undergarment,
with swelling wax bust AID arms. nnd
composition legs, decorated with high,
chocolate boots and dark blue tassels
II enjoyed the unique distinction of be-
ing a brunette and 1T first IIcnny had
3 wondered in her intatuation why 1t was
allowed 10 hang there Ike some delecta-
s lie fruit. while other "fitty-centers,' far
Eitts IAii Sf'll NI.llIlHg OIL IN DGpuEnal MIS-
and trains and buses. She had found out
finally that hrnpeites were not popular
III Do,!-iand, and forthwith her admra.
ton had been strengthened By a yehe.
li.ent Tenderness, But the climax OF lie,
q devotion ESas reached When ono day II
dawned upon her that her idol actually
InssesSed likeness to herself. Yes
There were ,he game round. brown eye.
that looked back Al Henny from the b
OF Hayg glass before which she PLATED
lspH llslir night and morning; there wa.
tile aalnn ,sidows peak" Of straigh
brown hair in the middle Of that wake,
( fafehead: Tiers were the plaits Them
saiyes, dnEe UP with cheap blue rihbo,
osft tIls wa, CARS; there We're the tw,
iefii, ailyays showing between the darl
PINK itits DO shet 20 mouth, honey
i!enn3s mother was IN the habit OF ex
claiming. Then iao teeth alwnz show
m cer'n'y DO give me tie fidg!ts," No
hist Henny'S mouth was so beautifu,
rfiinped. but Il MAS dark PINK, ana he
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