Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

for the Pied Pipcr aud his attendant
spritcs 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 bye, promising to
come again some day # they are good.
Singing Barnbys Lullaby, Sweet and
Low" the Piper and his party march
through the hail again and disappear
through the door but the lullaby is
still heard receding IN the distance,
until IL entirely dies AWAY and the han
IS shrouded IN silence, The Hour I'm
Fairyland," as II Is called, Is at an
end and the children return to the
grim realities OF life in sumluud But
they take with them memories Of things
that brighten II, and with interest
awakened IN sources Of happiness that
may enliyen many dreary hours for
them and In later years help them TO
realize the beauty that hides beneath
the show Of things, The entertainment
Is q charmingly simple one. but II Is
Just such as the heart Of the child
most quickly responds to.
CURzoN EYRE
The founder Of the Fairy Tale so
Clcty is CurzOn Eyre, Of Hampstead,
and the youngest gray-haired man |
have ever met Making children happy
he says, Is "A far more effective means
OF retaining perpetual youth than
bath In that mythical fountain which
Ponce de Leon sought IN vain. He re-
toices that he was - years old until
he discovered that giants and giant
killers were equally creations Of fancy
lie reared his own children on fairy
tales. They have all outgrown belief
IN them now, but it Is the knowledge
Of the delight they took In them, and
the hellthful influence they exercised
i'm stimulating their maginatiOns
which has led him TO seek n means
Of bringing farylaud into slumland. He
plays the role of the Pied Piper ana a.
a charmer OF children his powers al
most equal those Of the tabled Hamc-
lin musician, He gets no pay for his
services, of course; II Is sheer
love Of the work that inspires
his enthusiasm for IT, His three
daugtbors-prctty rosy-chcekcd buEom
English girls ranging In age from II
to 49, take the parts of the leading fair
les. They are rather substantial fair
les, as they acknowledge, laughIugly
But the zest and enjoyment with which
they enter into the work, their smiling
faces fairly radiatng HAPPINESS and
good win enable them TO assume tho
chnrlcters Ear moro effertuqIly than
gttenutted hirallnqs could Dr.. The
fairy how Is plavcd by one of Mr.. Evre's
sons NOT VET too old To have full COM
mnnd Of A good treble voice
FAlRYTgAND FAITH.
II was an article entitled "Falryland
and the Stun Child-a Hint To- Phllan-
thropsts,' by Arthur RIckett former
ly on the stan OF 'Punoh,' which first
usggested 10 him o means OF giving
practical effect to the desire he had
long cherished. II was % o1se Of good
seed falling on good ground ana bring
ing forth fruit Il hundrcifold, That
article led TO a meeting between Mr..
Rickett and Mr. Eyre ana AS n result
very shortly thereafter the Fairy Tale
Society was started. Wherefore Mr.
Eyre modestly declares that whatever
credit attaches 10 il belongs primarily
TO Mr., Rlckett
,,,pr, rt5,N- ,,u.st,,,I,>-r
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Mr.. Eyre regards the work OF the So
clety as something far more important