Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-19
THE LITTLE LADY-HER BOOK.
BY Albert Bigelow Paine. Copyright, 1901, The
Henry Aitemus Co.

BY Albert Bgelow Paine. Copyright, 1901, The
Henry Altemus Co.
The MEDICINE FAIRY.
The Little Lady is not very well-she
has been quite ill, in fact, with a doctor
and two kinds of medicine; one In a bottle
every two hours" and powders "eyery
three hours" The powders are white and
chalky, but the bottle medicine Is bad,
very bad; the Little Lady makes a fuss
when she takes it.
The Big Man tries to explain that the
medicine is to make her well, and that she
ought to be glad to take 1t. Also that IT
isn't nearly so bad as some thick, black
medicine that he had to take once, when
he was a little boy, and he tells her lust
how bad it was, and how good her medi-
cine Is. Then he tastes of it and smacks
his lips. but it doesn't taste good to the
Little Lady, and she still whines and makes
a fuss every two hours when the time
comes round,
So then the Big Man tells her story.
He says that once upon a time there
was another little lady, and she wanted
ring. She wanted it so bad that she used
to dream about it, and once when she got
sick and had to take pad medicine she still
used to dream about the ring and wish she
had it
oh says the Little Lady, 81 wish L
had a ring!'
why, yes, of course" says the Big Man.
every little girl likes a ring. and this lit
tie girl kept wishing and dreaming, and
making fuss about her medicine until
one night when she was asleep there came
In her dream a little fairy man with a
very pretty gold ring that had blue tur-
quoise set with a pearl on each side"
That's just the kind of a ring 1 wantr'
puts in the Little Lady.
And just the kind she wanted, too"
the Big Man ''Rut faf ryr
man held it up, and. Little girl. he said
do YOU know what that ring means% And
the little girl didn't and the fairy man said.
Pure gold Chats what the ring was. of
course); then he pointed to the stones the
blue one first, and said. Truth, Good Les
sons and No Fussng'"
What made him say that" asks the
Little Lady.
Because he meant that the other little
lady must be as good as gold TO wear that
ring, and that the blue stone meant-true
stories always to tell them, you know,
and that one Of the pearls meant good les
sons always to have them, you know. and
the other pearl meant no fussng about
medicine (when You have to take it, you
know, and the little man said Il know you
always tell true stories and have good les
sons: and II you would just take your medi-
cine pleasantly 1 think | might leave this
ring with YOU if you think you'd like it :"
"An'-an' did he leave it?" asks the Little
Lady who is ILL.,
'Why, yes; he had to, because don't YOU
see the other little lady promised all about
the medicine? And he put it on her finger
in her dream, and when she woke up next
morning, sure enough, there il was, and the
very first thing she had to do was to take
| her medicine, and when they poured it out
| in the spoon she swallowed it right down.
And will | get a ring if L promise. too?"
asks the Little Lady.
Just as likely as not" says the Big Man
Now go to sleep, the medicine fairy can
| come if he wants to"
Far in the night the Little Lady half
wakes and calls rather feverishly for a
drink of water which the Big Man brings