The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-07-31
THE LOST MONEY.

DOllo papa gave n6T d uNc-uOlldI
bin, such lot of money! Doris went
to a big bank and asked If they
| could give her smaller money for 1t.
The banker said he thought they
could. So he gave her two two-dol-
lar bills and big silver dollar. How
much did that make? Doris wanted
the dollar changed again; so the
banker asked II she would have two
fifty-cent pieces, or one fifty-cent
piece and two quarters-or perhaps
four quarters or ten dimes-or twen-
ty five-cent pieces-or a hundred
pennies.
Doris thought a hundred pennies
would be good many to count and
to carry, so she said she would take
two quarters, three dimes and four
five-cent pieces.
She laid away four dollars in the
bank, those were the two bills, and
put the change in her purse. When
she went to the shop, she had such
lot of money that. she thought she
never could spend it. So she bought
in it, for ten cents; that left her
ninety cents; and then a big rubber
ballon for twenty-five cents; that left
siXty-five cents; and a little one for
ten cents; and then Doris bought a
whole pound of candy for thirty
cents. Out of the twenty-five cents
she had left, it cost ten cents to go
in the car.
When Doris got home she opened
her paint box. What do you think?
OF course it was only cheap paint
box and the paints were so hard
that they would not paint at all.
Doris cut out the dolls, but they were
no better than those in any news
papers colored supplement. Doris
mamma said that the candy was too
bad to eat at all, and the rubber
balloons got wrinkled and soft in the
night, because the gas went out of
them. Doris cried when she saw
them. 'Now," she said, 81 have
nothing left of my beautiful dollar
but fifteen cents"
ma said, "but it's bad enough to
have wasted one dollar without cry
ing about it too. When you and l
go out We'll try to get such good
things for the next dollar that it
will make up for our mistake about
this one." The next bright day they
went to the bank and got another
dollar.
Now Doris mamma was pretty
wise person (mammas often are). So
they went to store where there were
some books that had been wet
little by the firemen when the store
caught fire. There they found
large, fine book of animal stories with
pictures in it, that had been fifty
cents, but the bookstore man sold 1t
for ten cents, because the back cover
and little bit of the edge were
stained with water and smoke.
That left-how much? Ninety
cents. Doris brother had told her he
would teach her to play marbles, so
she bought six glass marbles for five
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more. That left eighty cents.
Then Doris asked If her mamma
thought she could buy pair Of roller
skates. Her mamma said they could
ask how much roller skates cost, but
the shopman said they were a dollar
a pair. So Doris said she would save
up the eighty cents that was left of
her dollar and wait until she had
enough for the sixties.
However, a little boy was look
ing in at the window Of the top
shop and he looked so sad and so
longingly at the tops that Doris spoke
to him, and when he said he wanted
one of the red balls she bought 1t
for five cents and gave it to him.
That left seventy-five cents.
When they got home they told
papa about the skates and he said
he could get then downtown for sew
enty-five cents, and he did.
So Doris learned by losing her
first dollar to get a lot of good
things that would be more useful and
would last longer with her second
dollar.-Bolton Hall, in st. Nicholas.