The San Francisco call., 1905-02-12

ne mas brought with MIN from Fa1ry-
land The body of the hall meanwhile
is in semi darkness, all the light being
concentrated on the stage, which helps
maintain the illusion of the supernat-
ural character of the entertainers The
stories are delivered with excellent, but
not oVerstrained, evolutionary effect,
and the Juvenile auditors listen to them
with that rapturous attention which
children always bestow on such tales
when they hear them for the first time.
NURSERY RHYMES.
Then follows some singing of nursery
rhymes Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where
Have You Been?" "Dickory, Dickory
Dock" 'Humpty Dumpty Sat On a
Wall'' and such like, concluding with
Here We Go Round the Mulberry
Bush In the midst of the dancing
that accompanies this last song q
make believe clock strikes IL, the sig
nal for the Pied Piper and his attend
ant sprites to take their departure. The
piper distributes toys and fairy tale
books to the children, while the fairies
scatter flowers among the audience.
Then the piper makes a little speech
and bids them good-by, promising to
come again some day If they are good.
Singing Barnbys lullaby. Sweet and
Low" the piper and his party march
through che hall again and disappear
throuFfh NJ door. hut the lullaby is still
heard va in the distance until it
entlreis g6e assay and the hall is
shroud q ln silence. The Hour in
FairyiaHd as " Is called. is at an end
and ~ rhlden return 10 the grim
reality o ife "a siumland. But they
take ,fith ihfm memories Of things that
bfistreH and with interest awakened
in 1ource- ~ happiness that may en-
iivn mans dreary hours for them and
iu later IraFs help them TO realize the
tfauty hat bides beneath the show of
Miug The entertainment is charm
ingiy Alnpic one. but IL is just such as
she feart ~ the child most quickly re-
sporas 20.
hs founder OF the Fairy Tale So
cog = IN Curzon Eyre of Hampstead and
% youngest gray-haired man I have
gNer met. Making children happy, he
sasa - a far more effective means of
retaining perpetual youth than bath
iu that mythical fountain which Ponce
a. Leon sought in vain. He rejoices
that he was IL years until he discov-
cred that giants and giant-killers were
equally creations of fancy. He reared
his own children on fairy tales. They
have all outgrown belief in them now.
but II Is the knowledge of the delight
they took in them and the healthful
influence they exercised in stimulating
their imaginations which has led him
- seek a means of bringing fairyland
into slumland. He plays the role of
the Pied Piper and as a charmer of
children his powers almost equal those
OF the tabled Hamelin musician.
GIVES SERVICES FREE.
He gets no pay for his services, of
course; it is sheer love of the work
that inspires his enthusiasm for it.
His three daughters-pretty, rosy
checked. buxom English girls, ranging
in age from Ii to 8, take the parts of
the leading fairies. They are rather
substantial fairies. as they acknowl-
eoge laughingly. But the zest and en-
joyment with which they enter into
the work, their smiling faces fairly ra-
dating happiness and good will, en-
able them to assume the characters
far more effectually than attentuated
hirelings could do. The Fairy Boy is