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because ne expected to be order
ed to cut off his own daughters
head, came to the council cham
Der. But to his great surprise |
the Sultan talked only of state
affairs and did not even mention
Scheherazade. And what do
you suppose the Sultan did when
the council meeting was over?
He went straight to the Sultan
ess' room and woke her up, not
to tell her that he had ordered
her head cut off, but to ask her
to please tell him the rest of the
story, Of course she was de-
lighted to do SO. And that eve
ming she began another story
but again had to stop in the
most interesting part. So it
went on for 1901 nights and by
that time the Sultan was so i'm
pressed by the beauty and BRAY
cry Of Scheherazade and so de-
lighted with her wonderful power
of telling stories that he told his
council that she should be Sui
taness for the rest of her natural
life and that through her the
danger to the Persian girls had
been ended. Then there was
great rejoicing in the kingdom
and ScheheraZade and Schahriar
livd happy ever after.
+ Now | want to tell you one
more story about the "Arabian
Nights Many years ago, per
! haps twenty or more, there was
y a little American boy who used
, to love to read the "Arabian
: Nights.' And sometimes on a
:, warm summer day he would
shut the book and lie back on
+ the green grass and gaze at the
-, soft. white clouds in the blue
! sky. He saw great pictures
: there. The clouds were WONDER
n full islands on which lived the
Il Princess and Queens of whom
,, he had read in the 'Arabian
= Nights" Oftenest he used tC
+ see THE City of Brass in the
q clouds, or the sad, young king
r of the Black Isles enthroned or
4 the white marble. Sometimes
" he saw the beautiful Princess
q Parizade searching for her sing
~ ing tree. And sometimes a
sunset when the cloud masses
g were followed out into huge
= caves filled with a lurid, rec
y glare, he fancied he caught sigh
- of the wicked, one-eyed gian
- whom Sinbad the Sailor triee
& to blind. In another cave HI
: thought he saw Ali Bahia ane
i some of his forty thieves Of
IL perhaps Aladdin and the Won
: derful lamp. When this little
u boy got older he tried to draw
~ some of these pictures on pa
T. per and succeeded so we'll tina
- he began to paint them for tn
~ little boys to see. Now he is ;
~ grown man but he is till paint
= ing these pictures and many 9th
-, =, ers especially for the little boy
~ and girls of the United States
~ If you watch the cover design
- on Golfers Magazine, you ma.
y find down in the corner, the in
"a itials NJ. P. They stand for tn
Il name, MaXfield Parrish. If yo
IA look on page 6 or 8 of the mag
u: azine YOU may find one of hi
II Arabian Nights pictures.
Do you know that verse tina
Robert Louis Stevenson wrot
d for a little boy friend of his
e He calls it "a Happy Thought.
as 1.-THE world is SO full of a nun
~ Der of things,
te I'm sure we should all be a
~ happy as kings
re Mondays we all ought to b
~ happier than kings or queen
ee because SO many new things ar
III being made for us. I really be
al heve that nearly half the pee
al pie in the world spend most c
D. their time making and plannin
us beautiful things for the chi
er dren. Think of the men VIII
We make toys Off them, the poop
ne who print funny papers fc
OF them and the men and wome
who write stories for them! Or
le- man, who hasn't any children {
at his own, writes ever so man
lg verses for them. You all kno
nd him, Pm sure, the "Hoosie
:ly Bard"-James Whitcomb Rile,
or You know who wrote "Seil
ut Things At Night" and "Wynke
at Blynken and Nod" don't you
at Maxfeld Parrish has illustrate
b. both these poems. In one pi,