The Press., 1894-02-01
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
 (For the Children.) King Spirit and His Home.
BY MRS. EVA GRIFFITH MILLER.

King Spirit and His Home.
 BY MRS. EVA GRIFFITH MILLER.
 King Spirit lived in 8 beautiful hous,
 called Body. He had many loyal ser
 wants, who were prompt to obey his com
 mands, and his palace was very bus, and happy place. There was Mrs. Blood
 the housekeeper, who was ever going
 from room to room, searching out odc
 bits of dirt and filth, broken bits of wal and impurities that had d1ifted in from the street, and with her army of corpus cles all dressed in red uniforms, she hac these things picked up and carried out so that the palace would be always clear and healthful.
 Then there was Mir. Vitality, the build CT, who, with an army of corpuscle dress ed in white, went around after Mrs. Blood and repaired all the broken places in the walls and kept everything built up after the pattern which the king gave him. MT. Vitality was always at work, for King Spirit kept his palace in constant use, and the walls would keep wearing out, no matter how strongly they were built. King Spirit had his office in that part of the palace called the brain, which was sit uated just behind two beautiful light win dows, where the king was wont to look out on the world. A great many little telegraph and messenger boys were en- ployed by the king, and they were always running back and forth from the kings office to the extreme portions of the pal ace to carry orders to Mrs. Blood and MT. Vitality, who were often busy in the re- mote parts of the great house. Some times, too, MT. Vitality stayed awhile in the office, and then the telegraph and messenger boys had to take his orders to corpuscles.
 Some of the telegraph boys were sta tioned in the remote parts of the palace where soldiers were set to watch, and whenever bit of wall was broken down or an enemy appeared the soldiers sent the telegraph boys post haste to the kings office to let him know. The tele- graph and messenger boys always travel ed along smooth avenues, made on pur- pose for them, called nerves, and these avenues had to be always kept in good repair, or else the messages would be de- layed and harm come to the palace.
 The king had many enemies who were constantly trying to get into the palace and rob him of his jewels and drive him away, so he had guards stationed at all the doors to notify him when there were enemies lurking about. .
 There were troops of wicked little germs that tried to get in at the door nose, but the soldier, Smell, stood guard there to keep the germs out, and when- ever he smelled bad air he would notify the king so he could move the palace to some other place. There were other en- emies that tried to slip into the wide door, mouth, but the soldier. Taste, stood guard there. Then wicked oaths would come and try to get in at the ears, but Hearing stood guard there and would warn the king whenever they came around.
 Professor Intelligence, in the kings of- flee, studied up the history of the kings enemies and kept everybody informed as to their danger and habits, and the kings business manager, MT. Common-sense, gave orders as to whom they should let in and whom keep out. No one was al- lowed to enter unless he could show certificate of purity, which would prove him loyal to the king.
 But one time dreadful thing happened in the palace of the king. MT. Common sense went away on vacation and left the business in charge of MT. Desire Now MT. Desire was very smart young man, who thought he knew great deal more than MT. Common-sense, and he said there was no need of being so strict, and he was going to let the boys have little fun.
 = That very day polite MT. Tobacco came to the door of mouth and knocked. He was a very affable young gentleman, dressed in a stylish suit of brown, and he promised no end of good times to Appe- tite and Desire if they would only con- mand the door to be opened. Smell and Taste didn't like him at all, and they both sent alarming telegrams to the office to let the king know an enemy was near. The king called MT. Desire and sent him to MT. Intelligence to know what kind of enemy Tobacco was,
 Prof. Intelligence quickly informed him that Tobacco carried under his coat the dreadful poison Nicotine, with which he tore down the walls of the nerves and otherwise injured the places he entered. But Desire said he would watch him and see that he did no such mischief as that, besides he would turn him out the mo- ment he saw him do any of these things. So. King Spirit listened to Desire and al- lowed him to open the door to MT. To- bacco. Taste fought hard against it, but he was soon overpowered, and then Smell, who wanted to keep on good terms with MT. Desire, pretended that he liked MT. Tobacco first-rate. ...
 Tobacco came in very quietly at first, and only made very short call. But he laughed in his sleeve at MT. Desire, and he said: "Ah, but you shall soon be my helpless slave, MT. Desire"
 The first thing Tobacco did was to put all the telegraph boys throughout the pal ace asleep, by giving them just little of the Nicotine. Then he began te bring in little loads of dirt and filth and deposit them in corners around. Mrs. Blood was soon after him, aqd she and her faithful red corpuscles carried out the dirt just as fast as they could, and they tried to rouse up the telegraph boys and send word to King Spirit that the palace was in danger. hnf fhQ tn1npra nh howe rrporo f<,~ c1aa,x, &<>