Show IY HOW LENA SAVED THE RING Lenas Lena's mother a widow and worked vC very hard haid to support Lena and herself She took In sewing sowing and sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times there was ver very little work to be had had and of course courso very ry little money They lived in one room which was In Ina ina a a. good neighborhood for Lenas Lena's mother was anxious to have hor her attend a n school whore where children of oC the better class claRa went w The Tho room the they lived JIved In was wa 4 in iii an attic and there they thoy ate ato and slept It was neat neal and clean and tho the corner torner where the tue bed stood was curtained off and the room looked cosy and comfortable It was waR within a month of or the time for school chool to close chose and Lena knew that all tho the girls were to have new dresses She Shedid Shedid dl did not speak of It to her mother for forshe forshe forshe she knew there was VCr very little mone money but she wondered what whal she would w wear wearon wearon r ron on that day clay Her 1 mother however had thought mOil many times She had tried to get extra sewing to tu do but had failed anti ami there was vas not ono one way In which she could economize a as the they had barely enough to live upon no now She wanted Lena to look Jook a as well weH as all the other r little 1 girls and she lal laid 1 awake nights tr trying ln to plan some wa way to get the dross Of or I things that she could sell there was S I only one ono thing left left her her husbands husband's ring rim not very er valuable but It was WIlS the only thing she sho possessed that had belonged to him One night Lena left her mother sewing sew sew- ing as usual anti and went to bed bcd She awakened some time after and thought she hoard heard someone crying She listened lIten d. d and then very ery carefully looked out from behind the thc curtains TIer Her mother was sitting b by the table looking at nt something some some- thing she sho held In her hel han hand buna She was crying and Lena heard her hel saying saying- It Il Is 15 for her dear lIr you would T want l our little girl Jirl to look as aEl well as ns the other children wouldn't you ou Arid And then she cried a again ln Lena watched her put the thc away auay In A n drawer The next t morning when her mother went to tho the store stort r. r Lena na looked In the drawer and found It Wl was her fathers father's I ring her mother had boon crying aing over o but hut what her hr mother had lund meant l liv 1 v the words sho shio heard she ghe could not think At tho the breakfast fa t table her ller mother said Do you ou know what the other girls Irl are Bra going oln to wear r on gt graduation day cUy I. I Lena na told her she h ho did not Well you 1 0 find out vail ald her moth mother r for I T want to get ct your our dross dress started Lena looked at fit her with surprise for toi- she know knew her mother had h had d cr very vary little work ork Slid Sud denly It came to her mind what her mother had said gald tho the night before when sho lio JIt hearth heard her hel crying Sh She was i to pell elI her fathers father's ring and take lake the mone money and wd bu buy her a dress dreHs That 1 noon when Lena came cam from school she a asked kod her mother where her bet white dress s was that she hc wore the summer summer sum sum- mer before It Is In th the trunk her hH mother tol told her but hut I T do lo not think you youcan youcan OU can wear it this summer It Is 15 PO so o worn and too short Why do you OU ask fisk Lena told h her r the tho girls were to wear white on graduation day day- And nd several eCI 1 of or them she sho continued are to wear their ja last t summers summer's dresses I thought mine intent do No o doubt their dresses were n new nan last summer said Mid her mother nut Hut Lena Jona I got ot the tho dress drees out and put It jt on It W was S short hut but there was Vas a deep 1001 hem Now 10 mother T I will nh rip th the horn hem Foal saul Iona and you c can n let Jel It down and the tho place 1100 0 I that Is If worn wore can be mended and when you 1011 have washed 1 and ironed It the thc dress dresH will look took as pretty pratt as ns nn any of them Please do not get mo nue a new nc dress I r know you have 1 not the tune to make mako It it J Her Tier mother looked at her iter but lut Lena r insisted that her mother had to work too hard and that shi she she- shedid did not need the dress So the dress iress was repaired and when Lenas Lena's mother went vent to the graduation graduation grad grad- exercises and ond saw w her little girls girl's happy face race sho she felt that it counted more than her dress but she little knew the cause of oC Lena Lena grew rew to be a 0 great help to her mother and antI it was not many years before be he- fore she had taken the hur burden en from her mothers mother's shoulders shoulder and wa was supporting her Tho ring has never ne been toen sold and Homo some da day Lena will tell her mother how she alto saved it Cop Copyright 1911 t. t b by the McClure Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper S Syndicate New York City Tomorrows Tomorrow's s story story stor The Dwarf and tho the Girl Girl |