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Show . HOW JESSIE MANAGED. On Jessie's birthday her sister Anna invited her to go. to the matinee. Jessie was happy, and ran to tell her mother. "Oh, mother, only think! Anna's going to take me to see the 'Forty Thieves!'" And then a shade came over her bright face. "I do wish, mother Oh, 1 do wonder if " "What, is it, Jessie?" "I would so much like to take Arabella." "But I think I wouldn't, dear. It would be rather a troublesome thing to do. You couldn't carry her in your hand." "No." said Jessie, regretfully, "but maybe " "I don't think of any way yeu could take Arabella." Ara-bella." said her mother. "You had better leave her at home, but you can make her a new dress to wear on your birthday." ' , Mothers think of suclv nice, interesting things to do, and Jessie was soon busy over a fine new suit for Arabella., The dress she made for her was white, covered with little pink dots, and had a plaited ruffle on the skirt. She tried to make the sleeves like those of Anna's new dress. : The hat was "white, with pink trimming on it. i It was very hard to make, especially the bow on the front, but it was becoming to Arabella, and at last it was sewed firmly in place. Just as Jessie was finishing the hat she thought of such a good way to carry Arabella to the matinee that she laughed out with delight, and ran to tell her mother. i(j "Oh, mother, I know. T know what I can do! Arabella won't get lost and she won't get. crushed or crumpled and she won't make anybody any trou- i ble. I'll fasten her in the crown of my hat." So Arabella went to the matinee, and next summer she is goin- in Anna's trunk to Europe, for, as Jessie '. says, "If you're a paper, doll you can find a way to go to places." Youth's Companion. |