New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-02

and they were devoted TO him They were poor
T when Hang hsd the measles his grandmoteT
stood BY his bed and said that II would be
e 80 to make their little SON happy they DID His
mother whose parents had turned her out to beg
when she a tiny child told him that he was
being brought up like a nobemans SON And
makes it all seem very beautiful. He tells how
he also tells how the little cottage was always
1lled with flowers ana green o99ghs, n now ms
make wonderful mechanical toys for him and
how the flowers used TO grow in the little garden
which stiu blooms in the story OF The snow
Then there was his grandmother the original of
az me 6a lived in a cottage near by with her in
laleS' tsteG nd nsed 10 60 sverv dav TO the
house II Hanss parents TO see her little grandson
flowers. and she always brought Hans bouquet
Nat onIv his parents and his grandmother but all
the growTl-up people in Odense loved little Hans
girls OF his own age. They called him girl be
cause ne sang 50 beautifully ano ~hen ne t tt
-irrifsI figure himself they said He Is mad like
his Later on they P P6s the MN BaV
writer" At such times he used 10 hide himself in
Hans never cared much for playing with other
chtlofsn "a, ile Ptr his }afber had made for him
and make clothes for the doll actors. He was SO
he was fourteen years old and his mother thought
that because he could make dolis CLONES ar 80
want 10 be a tailor. He wanted 10 go TO Copen-
hagen and get famous and he gave his mother no
peace until she consented. His father had died
when he about eleven
So at the age of fourteen little Hans. who was
now big Hans, long, lanky and extremely ugly, a
real ugly duckng, started out 10 seek his fort
une 1t would take too long 70 tell the troubles
he met He was often cold and often hungry, ana
worst OF an ne his beautiful voice the re-
suit of these sufferinEs
But at last the good King OF Denmark. Fred
erick VI heard Of him and gave him allow
ance from the public funds for his education Up
scarcely been TO school at all and knew much less
than most OF the little men and women who al
this page He didn't like study very much. but ne
was so anxious write dramas that he worked
hard for few years trying to learn enough TO
enable him do II. He never thought at thar
time, nor for many years after, Of writing fairy
tales He wanted to be great dramatist, ana ne
tried nearly all his life to become
But no one cared for his plays. Even his friends
were bored by them. and IL only through the
influence OF some powerful friends that he was
able. once in a while 10 get Of them acted
The first fairy stories were told 10 amuse some
little friends. He didn't much for children
INT he liked tell them these pretty stories, and
they enjoyed them much that his friends asked
him why ne didn't write them So, when he was
bout thirty, he wrote and published four OF them
with no idea that he was now laying the founda-
ton OF his fame He didn't think much Of the
stories himself and the public didn't pay much
attention 10 them but. year by year. they grew IN
favor until by the time he died, in 1875 they had
been translated into nearly every European Ian
guage.