Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-11
The Doings Of the Delivers.
THE JAPANESE PRINCE.
BY GRACE MCGOWAN COOKE.

The Delivers are a family of dolls. The
country they live in Is the nursery. 1t is a
very fiat country, and the land Is rlch
or poor according to the figures on the
carpet-the faded ones are the poor soil, and
the rich soil is where the colors are bright.
The house they live in is little low cup
board, and that makes upstairs and a
downstairs for the Dollver family. The
nearest running water is the washstand,
away and away over in the corner of the
nursery, where if nurse turns on the fau-
Get there is a raging cataract and the basin
makes a large lake. The Delivers love to
picnic over near this natural curiosity. l
suppose that all children know that when
we go to sleep dolls wake up, and 1--we
their little lives, and have their little pleas
ures and their little pains, as We do; but
in the night time when there Is nobody TO
see them TO know Of it. The king-or
rather the queen-of the country in which
the Delivers live is Ethel, the dear little
girl who owns them. They love her; but
she often does things which distress them
dreadfully; and these stories of the doings
of the Delivers will tell you all about 1t.
The Delivers were all very tired; they
had been making a garden Mr. Dolliver
picked out figure on the carpet where
he thought the soil was rich and a good
garden could be made Then the spotted
lOTSe WAS uScu ~ ploW lic Sdtutii. h'iS
difference between blowing and driving
horse is that when you pillow you say,
Gee" and "Haw." Mr.. Dolliver drove
that spotted horse all over every bit OF
that patch on the carpet. and as he kept
on saying Gee" and 'Haw," it must have
been thoroughly plowed.
Then came the question of what to plant
The white kitten wanted catnip planted
of course. Dolly Dolliver wanted all sorts
of beautiful flowers. Tommy Dolliver ask
ed for popcorn. and Which and Tother
simply jumped up and down and screamed
Peanuts. peanuts! peanuts.
Mrs. Dolliver wanted vegetables for the
family to eat. She said she very tired
of living on china dishes, and she was sure
that all the rest of them were. Dinah the
cook. said she thought they ought to plant
sunfiowers, because it. would make her
think of home. Nobody knew where Dr.
nahs home had been, nor why sunlowers
should make her think of it. but Mr.. Dolli-
very much troubled because every
body wanted a different thing.
You know he was a lame man, and very
easily troubled about anything; so finally
he got some Of all the different seeds of all
the different things that all the different
people wanted and stirred them up to-
gether; then he planted that garden and
said he guessed that everybody would be
suited.
they had a great time getting tools to
, work in the garden. The incest thing they
had was a rake which Tommy made by
tying a side comb to a lead pencil. He
and If the weather had been good I'm sure
the Delivers garden would have been
success
Well, as I told you, the Dolliver family
had been making a garden, and the DolH-
yer family was tired. The last thing In the
world that they expected was that they
would be called upon to entertain prince
and a prince from very, very far-off land,
at that.
Ethel, the little girl who owned the
Dolliver family, had been to party. The
souvenirs at this party were little Japanese
dolls. Ethel came running in to tell nurse
all about it, and just before she went down
to dinner she opened the front door of
the Dolliver house and threw the Japanese
prince right in on the floor.
My-my-my! How embarrassed the Dol
liver family was! The paper doll was there
visiting Them and she shook and futtered
till you might have thought she was going
to fly away.
Finally, when everybody was gone from
the nursery and the Delivers could come
to life Mrs Dolliver whispered to the paper
doll: II really don't know what to do He
Is a foreign gentleman-probably he is a
Japanese prince-and truly 1 never had
prince thrown head foremost into the
kitchen before. I hardly know what to do"
The paper doll shook her head Il
couldn't advise you, Mrs. Dolliver,'' she
said. For my part, 1 have often enter
tanned princes at my summer home in the
table drawer. Queen Ethel gets all sorts
Of people out of the magazines and brings