Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-26

princess who was too frightened to cry out
and quickly carried her out of the palace
and sat her down. The princess picked her
self up intending to enter the palace and
never go to her room again without atten-
dants. when suddenly Vikhar, the North
east Wind. came by and grasping the prin-
cess in his arms he bore her away before
the scandalized eyes of the king. who hap
pened to glance out at that minute.
Let us turn to another kingdom and watch
Prince Theausus he prepares to go to
seek the hand of the Princess Rosalie in
marriage, for her beauty was famed far and
wide.
When he arrived at the palace the king
tearfully promised to give him Rosalie for
his bride when he brought her back. Prince
Theausus, when he saw her picture. thought
he would go through all the world for the
sake of such lovely girl as that, and
started out with splendid retinue, but he
had not gone far when they found that to
continue the journey they would be oblig-
ed to go through thick wood but Theau-
sus did not hesitate to plunge at once into
Its depths. but a thunder storm coming up,
1t became SO dark that the prince became
separated from his companions. The
prince. however. nothing daunted. pressed
forward and in little while found HIM
self on the edge Of the wood and directly
before him stood mountain of ice, whose
top was among the clouds.
Vfkhar came about half way down the
mountain and assured the prince that the
Princess Rosalie would never be his bride
for she was in his own keeping. Prince
Theausus would have despaired If an old
woman had not come along just then with
three eggs which she gave to him, telling
him to break them only when in the great
est need
Before the old woman was out OF sight,
one of the eggs was broken and the prince
was delighted to find pair of sandals
which were only nicely warm on the inside
while the outside was red hot. which would
melt the ice and enable him to reach the
top of the Ice mountain in safety for he
had caught glimpse of the glittering bat
Elements of castle and thought he knew
where Resale was confined.
When he had nearly reached the top he
suddenly noticed that huge ledge of ice
had to be crossed before he would reach the
palace steps. He was in dilemma when he
suddenly bethOught himself of his eggs and
hastily breaking one he found in 1t shell
of miniature size which grew until it was
quite as large as a house. He stepped into
1t and was surprised to find himself whiz-
zing down the mountain His efforts to stop
it were of no avail and when he reached
the bottom Of the mountain he found a pick
lying there. With this in his hand he
straightway began the ascent again. With
the aid Of his pick he quickly broke away
the ledge of Ice and gained the palace steps.
He entered and found himself in hall out
OF which opened a hundred doors. In de-
spair. the prince broke his third egg and out
fell a little roll of paper which suddenly
doors, pasted itself up and it read: open
this door" Then the prince took the key
and opening the door before him a
room of gold In which sat a girl with hair
as golden as the sun. She said nothing to
him and the placard opened itself to him
as 1T had before and the prince opened the
door with the little key. A young girl with
hair of silver sat in the next room, and go
ing into the room beyond that he saw a
sword hanging over which hung a placard
which said: This Is the only thing that
can kill Vikhar. the Northeast Wind
He tried to lift it. but could not, as it was
so heavy. He turned and went back to the
room Of gold. where the girl gave him po-
ton. Then he went back and found that he
could lift the sword quite easily. With it in
his hand he advanced toward the staircase
which went up out of this room. for he had
seen Rosalie looking out of the window of
the tower as he had come up the ice noun
tain. but he had not gone more than half
way up the flight Of stairs when he saw at
the top huge giant which, when he saw
the prince was really brave, retreated into
a room behind him. The prince without any
further stop went on till he came to the
topmost room in the tower. He then opened
the door and entered only to be encounter
ed by Vikhar. but when Vikhar saw the
sword he became quite pale and instantly
surrendered. but 1t did no good. and when
Theausus had made an end of Vikhar he
called Resale and begged her to come out.
telling her that he had sought through all
the world for her. Rosalie came out from
where Vikhar had hidden her and now the
only difficulty was their being able to reach
the foot of the ice mountain, so Theausus
went and brought the girls with the golden
hair and silver hair up to the top of the
tower with them. Theausus again broke the
third egg. for 1t had clapped together when
the key and the placard fell out. What was
in the egg proved to be a miniature set Of
furniture set upon kind of floor Of boards
to which were attached ropes that could be
fastened to the window in the tower. Grad
ually they grew larger and larger until they
were large enough to accommodate the
four. When they reached the foot Of the
ice mountain everything turned into min
iature size again SO that they might be put
back into the egg.
After walking for several days, they came
to a body Of water which seemed to stretch
every way into the horizon. They did not
know how they were to cross it until sud-
denly one OF the eggs broke and the mys-
ferrous shell fell out. When 1t had grown
large enough to accommodate them. tiny
oars were seen on the sides Of the shell,
which they had not noticed before Invis-
ible hands worked them and they soon came
to the shore on the other side. After trav-
cling for a long while they reached the
country where Rosalie's father reigned.
The silver-hared girl and the golden
haired girl were married to noblemen in the
court, and when Theausus and Rosalie
married they at once left for the kingdom
where Theausus lived. Theausus' father
died soon after this and Theausus and Ro-
sale reigned happily forever after.
By ELEANOR NJ. H., Aged II Years.
FAMILY CARES.
Once upon a time a little girl was left
asleep in a room by herself. Upon waking
she found there was no one there to dress
her, so she got up, as she wanted to see
her pets, and taking her shoes and stock
ings with her, also her favorite toy. went
down stairs In search of them. When she
very nearly reached the last stair who