Kind-hearted Elsia.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue VI, 9 August 1902, Page 377

Kind-hearted Elsia.

In a large city little Elsia lived with her mother and father. They were very wealthy, and so Elsia had everything she wanted. Now, just across the street from Elsia’s house there was a home for poor children, and every day as she came home from school she would see the unhappy faces watching her from the windows and probably wishing they were in her place. On Elsia’s birthday she received a beautiful wax doll, a doll’s go-cart, and two smaller dolls. She also had many other pretty things, received for Christmas. One day, when her mother was out shopping, Elsia was home alone with her nurse, and a new idea came into her head; she wondered why it was that she had so many nice things and the children in the home had nothing. Then she decided to take all her old toys over to the children. She went to her nurse to tell her plans and so gathered all her toys and took them over. The nurses were very much pleased and promised to give each child something. Then Elsia went home feeling very happy. When her mother came home she told her of what she had done. Her mother praised her a great deal. It was some time later, as Elsia came in from school that she saw a large box in the hall with her name on it. She had it opened and in it she found a picture of all the children and nurses of the home in a group and in a beautiful gilt frame. The nurses had taken a collection and thus sent the picture to her as a remembrance for her kindness to the children '