The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-09
LITTLE SNOW-WHITE.,
Interesting story for the Childre,

l1feresI1nG Story 1or the CnI0FeM'
Albert Tachutch, German painter, is
the author of handsome painting called
Little Snow-White" The story of " Lit
tie SNOWY bite, or as the Germans called
her, Schneewittchen," is that once upon
. time Queen sat sewing at the her pal
ace window and looking occasionally at
the snow falling without. The window
frame was of ebony, and as the snow lay
Oh the sill IT looked so beautiful that she
forgot what she was doing, and presently
prieked her finger with the needle. Three
drops Of blood fell on the snow, and it
looked 30 charming that the Queen said,
All, Cod that l had child as white
as snow, as red as blood, and as
black as ebony" Such a child was soon
born TO her, and she died, leaving the lit
tie one 70 the Kings care. Soon, how
ever, be married again, and the new
Queen was SO proud of her beauty that she
could not bear the thought that in all the
world was one more lovely than she. In
her bower was a mirror, to which she
would say:
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Fairest am not of all?"
And the mirror would tell her yes.
Meanwhile Little Snow-White was grow
ing up, and one day, when the Queen
questioned her mirror, it informed her
that Little Snow-White was thousand
fold more lovely than she. Filled with
rage and anger, she gave the little girl
into the hands of woodman, with instruc-
tons TO kill her. The child's beauty
touched him, and he let her run in the
forest, where one day she found little
house, upon entering which she found a
small table arranged for seven persons.
= She tasted the food and drank little
VINE, after which she lay down on one of
the seven little beds, and soon was fast
asleep. The seven dwarfs who owned the
house and delVed for the precious metals
m the earth, soon came home, and seeing
her beauty let her sleep until morning,
when she told her story. They told her
she might live with them if she would
be their house-keeper. She consented, and
the dwarfs were very fond of her. One
day the Queen consulted her mirror and
found that Little Snow White was yet
alive. She poisoned an apple and sent it
70 the child, who took one bite of it and
fell dead The dwarfs mourned, and car
ned her on a bier for burial, but she look
ed 90 lovely as she lay there, her throat
30 white, her cheeks so red and her hair
% black, they made glass coffin and in
scrlbed on il, " She was Kings daugh-
Ter" This, with the maiden in it, they
placed on the mountain, where one day a
Prince saw it. He wept, and at last In
duced the dwarfs to let him bear it to his
palace. As bis followers were carrying it
the jostling caused the piece of the poi
soned apple TO fall out of the maiden's
throat, whereupon she rose as well as ever,
and married the Prince. The wicked
Queen consulted her mirror, and now it
told her that q new Queen was more lovely
than she. To test the matter she went
70 the wedding ball, where she was astsn-
lisbed TO find the new Queen to be Little
SnOW-White. They made her put her feet
into the glass slippers heated till they
glOwed like fire, and thus she had to dance
till she fell dead with anger, pain and cha
grin But the Prince and Little Snow
White leo the story runs) lived many
happy years, were blessed with numerous
good children, and in short, lived in peace,
died in Greece, and were buried in cake
Of tallow. gs