The sun., 1901-07-26

| THELAST DEPARTMENT
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A Fairy Story OF To-Day.
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/ prince and every heroine prin-
cess, long before authors had used up
all the pretty make-believe subjects
and had been obliged to turn to and
hunt amongst the ugly everyday facts
of life for material to write stories
about, there lived princess who was
SO lovely that when men first saw
her they used to rub their eyes and
pinch themselves to make sure that
they were awake, and that she really
was live princess and not part Of
dream.
But the princess was as real as she
was beautiful. In fact, the only diff
ference between her and the other
people you meet in the streets was
that the gods had been kinder to her
than to most folks.
At her birth she had been given
many gifts. The sun had kissed her
cheeks, aud this had come as such a
| surprise that the two little bushes
that. had been born there had never
quite died away; the night shades
which were just hurrying off, left be.
hind them two trailing shadows in
her gentle eyes; the sun, too, had shed
some of his gold amongst her curly
locks; and nature hung charm
about her so that she had n way OF
winding herself around peoples
hearts, getting more and more tight
| ly fixed every hour, until she nestled
| in some warm corner and got all and
more than her share of love.
1t was the same wherever she went
| Everyone loved her, first for her
| beauty and afterwards for herself.
Old men and women, young men and
maidens, kings and courtiers alike,
made her queen Of their hearts. But
| in spite of all this love and admira-
tion, the poor, pretty princess was
not happy. For amongst other gifts
the gods had given her a golden
heart. Now, heart of gold sounds
very nice possession. People en-
| We'd her, and used to tell their chill.
| dren stories about the beautiful prn.
cess with n heart of gold. But the
princess herself found it anything but
comfortable. and sometimes very
heavy. The fault was that it was toe
| fine possession for everyday use
1t was not soft and yielding like ordi.
nary hearts on which it is easy tr
make impressions, and so it came tc
pass that, while everybody loved her
the poor princess could not love any
one. by this | mean anyone IN par
ticular, which, after all, is the only
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everyone just in the same degree, she
gave them all sterling 2i-carat love
but all the time she ached to be ahlt
to give some one person something
better and make him king and mas
ter of her fine gold heart.
"Will nothing melt it?" she CRIED
to herself one day, after she had dis
missed the latest of her admirers
and the little gold heart was feeling
unusually cold and glittering.
sam to live all my life with lit
tie dead heart that will never awake
to love? Shall / always go on being
loved and never learning what love
is?" And she put her head down ane
cried until the shadows in her darl
eyes grew deeper and deeper, and tht
end of her little tip-tilted nose was a!
pink as the heart of shell.
'.It is no good being so silly" sh'
said at last to herself "If you g
on crying you will only make You
eyes red and yourself ugly, and thel
where will you be? Worse off THAI
before! for folks will leave off lov
ing you, and you will then have moth
ing left"
So. being a very practical princess
She set to work to dry her eyes, and
having powdered her nose, she sen
for the court physician, of whom sl,
demanded love potion which woul'
cure her complaint and melt he
heart
But the physician was old. He shoo'
his head. His science did not adm
of love potions. He said they wer
dangerous, and worse than all, I'M
professional. He would never admin
lister one.
So she put on her hat and hurrie,
away to big store kept by woman
of the world who traded upon her eN
perience, and out of the wealth 9
her worldly wisdom gave advice to al
who came to consult her.
The princess explained her symr
toms.
"Ah!" said the woman, after sh
had listened to her. Il can easily Sc
what is the matter with YOU. Will
YOU were talking to me you sprea
out your wings, and they were yer.
white. You need tonic called eNpf
rience."
But" said the princess, with greai
wide-open, astonished eyes, Il did no
know that | had wings"
1--WE all have wings" said the world
, ly wise woman. "rhat is me dill ll'e.
ence between MS and men. Only som
of MS don't use them for Soarin
/ with; some clip them early in lif,
others draggle them in the mir,
while some have such weak, undeve
! oped ones that they are not stron
enough to even help them to ris
above the petty cares of life. Oh
yes, we all have wings given us, beal
!. tifu white wings; that is why me
, sometimes call us angels. Yours al
particularly strong and white;
comes of YOU having heart of gold
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