Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-29
ETH ElYN.

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most ill-treated little girl III H. world
She twisted the lace en.tain into q
big. hard coil. and chewed the end OF
it for want of solae .aia. more entel-
tanning to do. 1t was a bleak, rainy
day, cherries enough to depress even
grown-up person. and Ethelvn felt
herself growing more wretened every
moment.
NO one paid any attention to She
lcnely little figure al The windcw. In
fact, Ethelyn felt ,hat no one had paid
any attention to her 4or the week past
hot since the day when she had been
sent with some Hvs.terious 7 essaae 10
grandma, who hatl contrived with one
preteXt and anCth2" 70 keep her all
day. Her pap had come after her in
the evening. looking very important
and happy, and had whispered some.
thing to grandma, who began to laugh
and cry at the same time. which
made her glasses require a good deal
of attention, as she had to take them
Off and polish them every other min
ute. Then Aunt Kate was let into the
secret and She d'ldn't cry a bit but
laughed and clapped her hands.
Ethelyn was accustomed to seeing
grown people act foolish and make a
big fuss over something that did not
interest her bit, so she forgot all
about it and cilatted merriIy with papa
all the way home.
When they reached home, instead ct
ringing the bell, papa tapped on the
door. and it was opened by a strange
woma nwhom Ethelyn had never seen
before. Papa seemed to- be always
" whispering now and he whispered
something to the strange woman, who
smiled and took Ethelyn by the hand
ald led her into the bedroom. And
then Etheiyn's heart nearly stopped
beating and a great lump came in her
throat, for there in the bed was her
own blessed mamma. looking whittier
than she had ever seen her before,
but with a great joyful light in her
face that Ejhelyn could not understand
and she. too, looked as if there We're
some wonderful secret to be told.
All at once there came funny little
Cry from over behind mamma in the
bed and Ethelyn thought they must
have brought her kitten up there for
company. Every one looked at each
other and smiled mysteriously again,
and the strange woman walked around
10 the other side of the bed and pick
ed up something wrapped in tiannels
and brought it over to Ethelyn on
pillow
Then papa said very proudly:
"T'here's a little baby brother for yop
to play with And mamma said very
softly and tenderly: "My happiness
is complete now: l have a darling lit
tie girl and precious baby boy.
Then they all looked at Ethelyn to
see what she would say, but she was
so surprised she could only stare stu.
pidly from one to the other and then
at the tiny mite of a baby. All at
once the baby puckered his face up
and began to emit the funniest cry
Ethelyn had ever heard. He looked
Sc queer that she laughed loudly and
the nurse said "Sh-sh, and she was
hurried over to kiss mamma good
night, and then papa took her out of
the room.
That was a week ago, and ever since
ii had been "sh-sh' from somebody
every time she moved or spokes.N
woud not have been so bad, ~she.
thought bitterly. If mamma hadn't hap
pened to be sick just the very day thu
baby came, for then they could hav
gone out driving. like they did before
and let nurse take care of the baby. |
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two days before her birthday. and she |
had had a party every birthday since |
she could remember. which of conrs0
wasn't very many, after all. When |
She ran excitedly into mammals room |
tc ask if she wouldn't be well on her |
birthday the nurse. who seemed to i'm
agine she had great deal to say about !
things. began that tiresome "sh-sh"
again and led her out of the room
So it was really no wonder that |
didn't feel like her usual !
loving, merry little self as she stoed |
looking out at the rain. 1t was just
at this moment that Aunt Kate camel
hurrying over and threw a kiss at
as she passed the window.
She left her rain coat and umbrella
in the hall and hurried in to Etehlyn
and took her in her arms, for the
sight of the wistful little face had