The Washington herald., 1913-07-19
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BEAUTIFUL CARB
HAPPINESS WEARS
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b. FRANCES sAAFFER.
A little maid In q big city was Just
approaching her tenth birthday, and her
indulgent father. who for all the years
of her short life had endeavored to meet
her every wish as birthdays rolled
around. was at sea In his search for
something to please her. One after an.
other he suggested things supposed to be
dear to the littie-girl heart, but every
time she shook her head. for not one
of his ideas caught her fancy
| At last, when nothing but failure
marked his efforts. he asked her to name
her choice of present and he would be
happy to grant 1t.
girl wanted to complete her happiness
on her particular day Of days?
She said that In the school where
she went there were poor children who
thought that her clothes were lots pref
tier than theirs; and for once she would
like t. see them wearing a summer dress
just as lovely as hers.
OF course the father was much sur
prised. for there were a great many
poor little children in that school: but
he had plenty Of money and, his young
daughter and her wants and wishes were
very dear to him. So he bravely went to
work to carry out her birthday dream OF
happiness.
Selected Seventy.
Communicating with the principal OF
| the public school, he learned that there
were poor children a-plenty who did not
| dress a well as his little daughter, and
he asxe1 the principal, a woman. to fur
nish the names OF girls to share in the
strange birthday gift. She selected 20,
ranging in age from seven to L.. and
| when the day came around, the little
| benefciaries Of the unusual way Of inter-
preting birthday happiness were on hand
to receive their slice Of the little girls
| novel choice.
And when the day was over and she
! had the consciousness that 20 little
| strangers to pretty frocks had gone on
their way rejoicing, for once In their
lives, she declared it quite 1.-The best
birthday / ever had
And II one is asked why 1t happens.
once in a happy while. that there are
some markedly generous-hearted little
and big folk in a world where self-in-
terests seem to prevail, one makes no
answer. just turns to another pretty evil
dence that such things do happen rather
oftener than once In while.
And this time. too. a young girl-Miss
Nettie Garstle-figures in the story with
her Barbara Home for convalescent
New York. that city Of startling con-
trasts OF luxury and misery.
She happens to have a background
of money, of wide sympathy, too. and ap-
probation Of what II means to the girls
who have been i'll in hospitals when the
day comes for release. the day they are
told that all they need nov Is plenty
of rest, good air. wholesome food and
all the things that seem far away when
spirits and funds are brought down to
ebb-tide. Rest, change of air. food to
build them up, and a bit of recreation
when the pocketbook has been pretty
nearly drained of all II held at the
start!
Gsrss at Their HardshIps.
Miss GarstIe guessed how dark and
forbidding the outlook might be and
she founded a modest little eonvalescent \
home where any girl. preferably between |
the ages Of sixteen and twenty-six, may |
stay at the nominal rate of Is cents a |
day. This includes three meals, lodging |
and full opportunity for rest out in the |
open. where trees, hammocks, chairs.
plenty Of magazines and books help the
hours go by all too soon. The home
provides sewing machine. needles.
thread and the like. together with mex
pensive materials from which the girls
may make themselves shirtwaists, If they
have the will and the strength. while
on the way to recovery. And the music
from Victrola softly helps them along.
The ocean is near at hand. where they
can go bathing and carry out the doc
tors suggestion regarding the needful
tonic of salt air. and the very atmos-
phere invites them back to the health
they had lost for while.
The home extends its hospitality to