The Hattiesburg news., 1915-03-01
Bedtime Stories
For Little Folks

One day she came into the room
where her mother was sitting.
Mother | do wish cou.d go away
in the summer like other girls. II Is
SO lonely around here; am the only
little girl who stays at home" she SAID.
why don't you play with your dolls
or read nice story book, you have SO
many books YOU should not be lonely,
replied her mother
II am tired of playing with dolls
and / have read all my books, replieu
Mary. Il want someoneto play with:
"Try to do something to make some
one else happy" said her mother.
saw In one of the papers this morn
ing that home for poor children was
in need of playthings for the little
girls who hve there and have no ia
theirs or mothers
| What can do to help them? asked
Mary. 81 have no money to buy play
things, and my old ones are not worth
anything"
"In the first place you can get the
scrap bag, and we will see If we can
find pieces large enough for doll dress
es," said the mother. Mary ran and.
; got the bag and before long they had
cloth for dresses and underclothes and
trimming for both.
Before Mary realized the time had
passed and her father came home for
supper. and she was so interested she
, did not want to stop.
1--WE will plan the dresses tomor
:, row." her mother said when she kissed
# her good night
The next day Mary brought out four
10 dolls she had not played with in long
10 time, their arms or legs or whatever
"a parts needed repair were patched and
,t then the dressmaking began, and at
h. the end of the week, Mary had two
g dolls fitted out with complete ward
robe. with her mothers help.
sc 1--WE will take these to the home
IS and then you can see just how mucl
,e- pleasure your work has given salt
ne her mother
re, How much Mary saw and how mucl
lid she learned in the way of doing goo
es, would take too long. to tell, but tn
children were so pleased and Mar
in felt so sorry for the motherless an
an fatherless little ones that she wer
ex- home quite contented with her hon
list and all she had. and best OF all hi
ne father and mother.
her Then the other dolls were dresse
and Mary and her mother bought
ou' dozen cheap dolls, to dress, for by tn
pu' time Mary was so interested in Il
lo' home and the children that she qui
NY forgot her playmates and being lone
INC Books that needed mending and bl
ken toys were brought from the att
repaired and taken to the home
the summer passed so quickly II
when her mother said one mornii
I'VE must begin to think OF SCH
. next week." she could not believe
. cation was over.
why mother" she said, 81 h;
been SO busy have not missed
girls at all"
THAT is because you have thou
. of others and not about yourself,
once mother replied,
no II Mary had learned to sew and m
o.. dolls clothes, which is the first
toward making larger clothes, so
s'sF see she had learned many thi
which little girls should know.
Doro All through the year Mary eath'
r I'm from playmates all their discai
, toys, dolls and books as we'll as pi
of cloth and bits of trimming |
~ io' one of the attic rooms in her h
y" ~. -.
looked like Junk shop. But at
ton time when her playmates
p'o0' away, she worked and the broken
10 discarded toys we're taken to the
ciooh tIe children at the home LOOKING
most new.
'ion Mary never again knew what IT
Do'o to be lonely or have nothing to do
on d. | am telling you this story becau
'o'' is near vacation time and many
pretty Ays TOO will, ba stayi,
"iii0n home. and sometimes they will
SC "'i' for something TO do; then they
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