Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-07-10
The Pleasure of Pleasing

had planned to make set of very
pretty paper dolls for her friend Ethel.
Why should she spend her time draw
ing and painting for some OF her
fathers friends whom she had never
even seen?
Accordingly she started very pretty
doll. who was to be named Carita. She
had almost finished it when she hap
pened to look at the motto. Why, what
was the matter with it? How strange
it looked! On examining it more
closely she saw that each letter mad
tiny fairy on it, and the sweet face OIL
each wore such a pleasing expression!
What was the reason? Was the beau
tiful motto bewitched?
After a few Thoughtful moments the
little girl cried aloud: Are those little
fairies resting on the letters pleading
with me to make some notices for my
father when l would rather paint the
paper dolls?" Then the little heads all
nodded.
When Myra questioned, will you
look happy if ] promise to put the
paper doll Carita away until l have
made the notices." Then the little
faces smiled so joyously that Myra
promised to make a motto that after
noon and keep right at the work until
she had made five or six. When her
father came home for the evening she
showed him the motto she had finished
for him. He was much pleased, and
when she told him she would make
more for him he said: II hope my little
daughter will take great pleasure III
her work, for she is pleasing her father
greatly
color and found that her work did
not become monotOnous-tn fact, she
learned to love the words so much that
she was quite sorry when all the mot
toes were finished.
After she had made the paper dolls
for Ethel she began to wonder if she
could not paint number for some
little girls who were stretched on beds
of suffering at the children's hospital
While she was considering the. subject
she looked at the motto, and there were
the tiny fairies on the letters again
and they were smiling at her so APP
provingly that she asked her rather 10
bring some bright-colored papers and
cardboard. He was only too glad to
see Myra trying to make others happy
and he sent the materials home in a
few moments.
The dolls were made very carefully
and were all named. Now came the
more difficult task of making their
dresses, but it was for the pleasure OF
pleasing, and Myra continued her task
of love until she had made many little
outfits.
Her mother brought a number of
pretty white boxes and when the dolls
were placed in them, each one dressed
in dainty gown and hat, with several
other dresses packed in cute little paper
trunks that Myra had cunnlngly de-
yised she was indeed happy child.
In a few days the doctor allowed her
to walk downstairs and sit in the
library. How glad she was! And in
another week she was strong enough to
take a ride. Her kind father drove her
to the hospital, which was not far from
her home, and she took the paper dolls
and handed them to the sick children.
oh, to see the joyous smiles as each
thin little hand clasped the white box!
Later on, when Myra was rodins
home, she put her arm around her
Fathers neck and whispered: Papa,
dear, 1 feel sure that the sweetest
thing on earth is the pleasure of pleas
g."-Philadelphia Record.