Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-08-25
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN,


may goa white butterfly, with a maid.
At that poor Dulcibei was ready 70 T..
Ter ear. AM"
The queen bee has in her treasrr.
store some most wonderful honey -.
hef ~ her cousin, the King If ~
'ihoihes; whoever eats little If il ,r-'.
become what he chooses
saving TINS, he took bulcibcl back win,
am 10 the great hive, and t0ld the oi,a,,'
how she had saved his wing. and H.,
queen was delighted. for ii happened til.
particular bee WAS her swiftpst ness,
ger; and she could not have spared hin,
therefore she readily promised DrI..
'Fi HI'iit % htf precious honey. tie Nov.
SO when she knew what il was for.
The bees kept her all night and in a..
morning gave her the honey in a fower
40 sooner had she tasted it than sbe foit
herSelf growing smaller and smalIor
something so strange seemed tn he no.,
ptiting, aud presently two beautiful erSat
Mh'te Hih@S nnfoided themselves fro,g
the middle of her back. There she stood
dainty little fairy Then the Le"s
made up the rest of the honey into In
Tie parcel and gave it to her to mn in
her pocket F"1 III
Take that, my child" sal d the Oueeo.
III, II you but touch his chains with it they
VIII come undOne."
Duicibel thanked the Queen and aev-
on, up and up the sides of the mountain
nntll she reached the clouds. They nnJ,
her wings wet 50 that they dragged. ant
sue got so tired she did not know wha,
to do. viii
However. she struggled brayel,- I'M iii
she reached the top: there she rested on :.
mower Tor a moment until she saw tbp
dWarf turn his head away She flew NJ,
among the other butterflies until sb..
E[eached Bonnyboy's face, and brushr,.
hef wings up against it, and whispered in
MS ear: Il have come to help YOU 10 es-
cape; You must make a pair of wings biz.
enough To carry YOU; if the dwarf wants
10 KNOW What they are, say you We're bid.
den to make them. must not Iingp.
now as | shall be seen. but with the first
sleam OF dawn | shall return-be ready
Tor me. So saving, she flew down again
with the other butterflies.
II seemed too good to be true bnt
when Dulcibel spoke he knew at last
that the time of his freedom was really
at hand. SO he worked on and on all
through the night until he had finished
When the dwarf asked why he was
making big wings. he replied as Dulcihel
mad told him TO. and the dwarf thouphf
the witch had hidden him do it for some
purpose of her own.
After Dulcibel left Bonnyboy she
stopped some way down and rested on
ledge, and went TO sleep for Il little while.
" hen she woke It was quite dark. except
for the moon. She felt SO stiff and cold.
she tried to get up. but somehow, try as
she would, she could not move: some
thing seemed to be fastened round her
and the more she struggled the more en-
tangled she became
Poor little Dulcibel, how she cried.
And TO add to her misery, she could see
the moon sinking lower and lower.
W mist she slept a horrid spider had
bound her and carried her off to his web.
BUZZ-Z-Z-Z'
Mr., Bee, Mr.. Bee. Mr.. Bee" Oh.
now glad she was To hear him. do
come and save me-,
u am coming" he hummed: '.chpcr
up And in another moment he buzzed
right into the horrid web. and neyer.
stopped until he had DESTROYED if and sci
Dulcibel free
She only waited to thank him, and then
new up. just as the first touch of dawn
came glimmering into the sky.
vo,,t. ie ere 4 an. am she whispered Are
quite "9H
Just at that moment she heard the
dWarf come, as she tremblingly hid her
self under leaf.
about for? Hurry up and get on with
your work. or | shall dig my spear into
you. As he was saying this his break
fast; which was cooking on a fire close
by began to boil over, and he ran off to
Directly his head was turned, Dulci-
bel Slipped from under the leaf and
touched the chain which kept Bonnvhoy
prisoner with her precious packet. AMI
he was free.
Hurriedly fastening his wings on. they
ran TO the edge and flew over. inst rs
the dwarf turned round
~, Come back he yelled. come back
| II give it to you. Come back ut once
But the more he stormed the more
they laughed: for. after all. were they
nor Tree. and out in the glorious sun
SHINE once more :-Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
What the Stone Indicated.
a New Orleans business man who ac-
qulred fondness for Vera Cruz tobacco
during visit to the sister republic last
winter was smoking Il Mexican cigarett.
the other day, when he stopped and
knocked tiny pebble out of the ash.
DO You know what that mcans:" he
sand, picking up the fragment on Tho
point Of his penknife. You would say ~
hrSt blush. | suppose that it was a biz
Of grit that had found its way into the
hiier with some imperfectly-c cleaned tn-
bacco. BUT the truth is that it was put
there Intentionally and indicates two
thlngS-hrSt, the cigarette is prison made.
and second. the fellow who rolled it was
winding the contractor When | was III
Mexico recently paid Il visit to the great
military prisons at chihuahua and the
City Of Mexico, and al both found
hundreds of men making cigarettes
Every morning each prisoner is given u
certain quantity of tobacco and paper.
which are scrupulously weighed, and hr
Is required In turn in their equivalent in
made-up cigarettes. which are also put on
the scales at the close of the day. me
two weighings must tally to a grain or
he is punished OF course, all the native
prisoners are inveterate smokers. and
they are each allowed twelve cigarette
Il day for their personal use. Twelve
cigarettes is a Irttty small allowance for
Il Mexican. So they hold out tobacco and
make up the weight 10y occasionally in
sorting pebble in one of the little cylin-
derS RefOre they hegin work they tnkA