Children's Corner

White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1 October 1895, Page 8

Children's Corner

THE DOLL CLUB. Twelve little girls formed themselves into a club for the purpose of sending dolls to poor children. The mother of one of the girls suggested that they name each doll tor some one who had done g(x>d in the world. The girls liked this plan, and they had a fine time hunting up names. One of the biggest dolls was called Florence Nightingale, for that good woman who spent so much time on battlefields and in hospitals, nursing the sick soldiers. One of the girls had a book that told the story of this dear woman’s life, and she copied part of this on sheets of paper and pinned them to the doll’s dress. Then they sent it to a little girl who had a sick mother to nurse. In a Sunday-school paper they found a picture of Sister Dora, tvith a short account of the good work that she did. They cut this out and pinned it on a doll, and named her Sister Dora, and sent her to another child. When they heard of a little cripple who loves dearly to sing hymns, they named a doll fanny Crossby, and sent it to the little maid, with a collection of Fanny Crossby’s hymns that they copied in a blank book. They named another doll Louisa Alcott.and sent her, w'ith a copy of “ Little Women,” to a dear little girl, only seven years old, who minds her younger brother and the baby all day, while the mother goes out to work. It took a good while for the club to save enough money to buy “ Little Women,” but the girls said that they thought it would be a lovely keepsake, and Annie could read it when she got older. Frances Willard went to a little girl whose father had lately signed the temperance pledge, and with her was a bow of white ribbon for the little girl to wear. Pansy w f as the prettiest cf all the dolls, and she was sent to a chubby little four-year-old who has just begun to go to kindergarten. — Selected.