Village Squire, 1976-04, Page 18front of the fireplace wondering what she could do. She did want
a church and she did want to help but how???
The shadosss grecs longer. Miss Victoria decided she had
better gather up her cups and wash them as she had no Annie to
do these things for her any more. Annie had stayed behind in the
big house on the hill to help the new people who lived there now.
Suddenls Miss Victoria had an idea. "I could make some tea
cosies like I used to make when I lived in the big house on the hill.
1 get out my wool and needles and I'II make them real pretty
*with flowers and pom poms so they will be sure to sell."
For days and days, Miss Victoria was very busy and soon every
tea pot and sugar bowl in her neat little house was wearing a tea
cosy. They were white, pink, blue, yellow, green and mauve with
`ay flowers and tassels all over them. One would have thought
someone had splintered a rainbow in Miss Victoria's little house.
When the day of the bazaar came, the tea cosies looked very
pretty, all laid out on white tissue paper on a table with a nice
looking lady standing behind it, waiting to sell them to whoever
came along. A great many people were coming and going and
finally Mrs. Smith stopped in front of the table and said, "What,
tea cosies. How quaint. I haven't seen one for years and years."
She looked them all over and said to the lady behind the table,
"I'll' have this one, please."
Mrs. Smith took the blue tea cosy home and put in a drawer in
her china cabinet.
Now Mrs. Smith had a little girl named Betty Lou. One day
when Mrs. Smith was talking on the telephone, she saw Betty
Lou run outside to play and what do you think Betty Lou had
found the tea cosy and was wearing it as a hat.
"Good gracious," said Mrs. Smith, as she caught up with
Betty Lou. "that's not a hat, Betty Lou. It's a tea cosy."
"What's a tea cosy, Mama?"
"It's a little hat to put on the teapot to keep the tea warm when
Mother has afternoon callers."
"Keeps Betty Lou warm too, Mama,"
"Maybe it does," said Mrs. Smith, "tut it's not a hat and
you're not to wear it anymore." She took it back into the house
and put it in a different drawer.
A few days later, Mrs. Smith said, "You can play with the
children in the park while I go down to the store at the corner. I'll
only be gone a few minutes."
Betty Lou said, "Alright, Mama," and ran out to play.
When Mrs. Smith was coming home from the store, there was
Betty Lou playing in the park, her golden curls nodding below the
blue tea cosy.
This time Mrs. Smith put it away in the chest in her bedroom
and said, "Betty Lou will never find it there."
A few days later, Mrs. Smith had callers. She said, "Will you
have a cup of tea as soon as I see where Betty Lou is?"
And where do.you think she was? Why playing in the yard next
door and what do you think?
"Oh no. Not again--" said Mrs. Smith?
"Why, what is wrong?" said the ladies and they all went to the
w'.idow to look.
"My blue tea cosy." wailed Mrs. Smith. "Betty Lou is wearing
it again as a hat. I was sure I had put it where she wouldn't find it
this time?"
"Looks cute on her," said one.
"You'd never know it was a tea cosy," said another.
"But it looks so silly with the openings for the spout and the
handle," said Mrs. Smith.
"That's easy," said another. "just sew up the openings and let
her wear it as a hat. She adores it or she wouldn't go to so much
trouble to find it. I'm sure she'll get more pleasure out of wearing
it as a hat than you would out of using it as a tea cosy."
"Well, maybe you're right," said Mrs. Smith so after all the
ladies had gone home she called Betty Lou and said, "This time,
I'm not going to scold you. Would you like me to sew up the
openings and let you wear it as a hat always?"
Betty Lou danced for joy. "Oh yes, Mama, please do. All the
kids want to wear my hat and wish they had one like it."
Betty Lou wr,re her blue hat proudly and would not leave the
house without it. Even when that great day came, her first day of
s!hool, she refused to go without it and Betty Lou's blue hat went
b, s!h'ol with her.
Wfkile Betty Lou was busy going to school, there were a lot of
i,•rl� ✓ris and girls r,n the other suir- of the world busy doing the
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