My daughter is a teacher and she says there are a lot of kids that need that special attention. At one rural school she taught at, she said the principal said they needed socks for the kids. Evidently a lot of the kids came to school with no socks on and in the winter their feet would get pretty cold. I bought several packages of one-size-fits-all and the principal could hand them out as she saw fit.She still has kids like the girl you befriended. They move around a lot, or live in cars, or things like that. She's in another rural district now but I guess they're in every district. Emma > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:52:53 -0600 > From: askgranny@juno.com > Subject: Re: [ML] Little girls wore dresses........ > > What a wonderful blessing to have pretty new dresses like that ! You may > have been the turning point in those girls lives, you never know...Just > knowing someone cares is all it takes sometimes....I decided to do > volunteer work at my nephews school and teacher asked me to help a child > with reading. I was allowed to choose and I immediately picked out a > pale, untidy little girl as 'mine'...I found her to be very friendly , > and eager to learn..Very happy to get special attention...She drew a > picture one time and it was a man and he had what looked like wings on > each side instead of arms..When I asked her about it she said that was > her Daddy and that's how he looked when he was yelling at her...Swinging > his arms, I guess...... > > Got to thinking of that little girl that night, and lay there thinking of > how I could get her some clothes, and maybe some flowery smelling soap > ...as she needed it pretty bad...When I went back the teacher asked me to > pick another child...'My' little girl just didn't show up at school one > day...Guess they'd just drifted on somewhere else .....I don't know how > many times I've wondered about her, and hope the next person who helped > her in school could do the things for her that I wanted to...Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`. > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:26:52 -0800 Emma Roses <roses4831@msn.com> writes: > > > > Mentioning little girls belts brought back a memory.For Easter one > year, I made my daughter a nice dress and got my boys all decked out to. > There was a family that had two girls, around 8 and 10. I knew > > their parents couldn't afford to get them new Easter dresses so I > proceeded to make them each a dress, nothing fancy but looked nice. For > the younger girls belt for her dress, I bought a pretty ribbon that > matched the dress. They were so pleased to get their dresses. > ____________________________________________________________

Oh, those special Easter Dresses! I still correspond with a girl who live near me, her family was very poor. I never knew she envied my clothes but that is one of her memories.And she remembered when I got a dress that was too large for me, she was given it. She talked/wrote, about how she treasured that dress and my hair ribbons. I think one of my favorite dresses was a cherry stems print with a red bolero trim with rickrack,Now all of that was made from feed sacks. I had the itchy chiffon and frills etc but favorites were always much more sedate and actually harder to make. I believe I was leaving high school before I had store made clothes. Oh we shopped the stores but grandmother went home and made copies. How I remember fitting sessions.!!!! Bud.