Helen refused nothing
but double beds; there was not space enough for those in a bedroom with
three people in it; it would seem to the women too much like the
crowded tenements they came from, she thought. Miss Merriam objected
also, on the ground that it was not well for babies to sleep with grown
people.
"What do you think of this plan?" Ethel Brown asked her mother after
the girls had made a careful list of their gifts. "We did think that
if we didn't have a stick in the house the people would be interested
in helping us because of our poverty. We've found out that they are
awfully interested even without seeing the house. Do you think it
would be a good scheme to put into the rooms the things we have ready
and to fasten on the door a notice saying
'THIS ROOM NEEDS'
and under that a list of what is lacking? Don't you think some of them
would say, 'I've got an extra cushion at home that would do for a
pillow here; I'll send it over'; or 'Don't you remember that three
legged chair that used to be in Joe's room? I believe these children
can mend it and paint it to look well enough for this room'?"
"Ethel Brown, you're running Ethel Blue hard in the line of ideas!"
cried Roger admiringly from a position at the door which he had taken
as he passed through the hall and heard discussion going on.
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