on the same street, though not very far away; but she must write
the letter to ask Helen to come. So, Edith got up at her mother's
writing-desk and took some of her own writing paper, and began to write.
She could make the letters but she could not spell very well. She asked
her mother how to spell the words and then she wrote them down. And this
is the letter she wrote:

[Illustration: hand-written letter

Dear Helen,

Mamma says I May ask you to come
to my tea party next Tuesday at four oclock
Bring your dolly.

your loving friend.
Edith]

Then she sealed the letter in the envelop, and put a stamp on it, and
stood on the front piazza so as to give it to the postman herself.

When Tuesday came, Edith's nurse dressed her in a fresh, white frock,
and Edith dressed her dolly in her best dress, and went out under the
trees where her nurse had set the table for two. And then she sat in a
chair at the table and waited. But the big town clock struck four and no
Helen came; and then she waited for half an hour longer. Then Edith put
her dolly down on the chair and went in the house to find her mother.

"Mama," she said, "I think Helen is very rude, she doesn't come to my
party and I invited her!"

[Illustration: EDITH WAITING FOR HELEN.]

"Just wait a little longer, dear," said her mother, "and she will come.
Maybe her nurse was busy dressing Helen's little sister and brother and
couldn't get her ready in time."

"But I invited her," was all Edith could say; "but I invited her, and
she doesn't come."

Then her mother went to the telephone and called up Helen's mother. In a
moment she came back.

"Edith, dear," she said, "what day did you write Helen to come? Her
mother says she thought it was to be Thursday, and so did Helen, and
this is only Tuesday."

"But I _did_ say Tuesday, mama," said Edith, who was almost ready to
cry. "I remember because that was the hardest word to spell, and I think
I made a blot when I wrote it."

"Well, never mind, dear; Helen is getting ready now and will be over in
a few minutes," said her mama.

And Edith was very happy, and ran out to the tea-table under the trees
with her doll to wait.

But she did not have to wait very long this time, for in a little while
Helen came running across the lawn carrying her doll; and so happy were
both little girls that Edith forgot all about the long time she had been
waiting for Helen to co