The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-03

She did not realize that her elders knew
better than she what was for her own
good. If she were denied a single thing
she desired she would make such terrible
faces, scowling and pouting, that after a
few years her visage became terribly
marked and hideously ugly to look upon.
This made other children fear her, and
even grown-up people avoided her on ac-
count of her bad temper and selfish
ways. Just look at her facet everybody
would say. 1T Is ruined by scowls and
pouts! For you know scowling, frown-
Ing and pouting will mark the face
dreadfully If continued"
do they mark like smallpox asked
Polly, deeply moved.
"Oh, yes, even worse" assured the lady
But to continue my story: All through
life this little girl was left to her own
ccmpanionship, for no other child would
play with her, she was SO selfish and
ugly-faced. Then she grew up and grown
people avoided her as much as the chill
dren had done. She grew to be a regular
old witch, with no friends nor compan-
ions. And 1t all happened through her
being naughty little girl, for good people
grow from good children and bad people
grow from naughty little ones"
The lady paused and looked at Polly
intently. Polly glanced up, and, under
standing the point of the story, her lips
quivered and her blue eyes filed with
tears. Impulsively she flung her arms
about the sweet lady's neck and sobbed
out: "I'll never, never pout nor frown
again. | don't wish to brighten other
children away from me. nor l don't want
to become an ugly old witch when l
am grown up"
And the good lady, who knew that the
fault of Polly's naughtiness was not
wholly due to herself, but to over-indul-
gent parents, took the sorry little girl on
har Epa md HAr
dry your pretty blue eyes and listen to
another fairy tale have in mind"
"Once upon n time there was another
little girl, who was so very, very
naughty that she was spelling her life
and sending away from her all tender
ness. sympathy and love. Well a fairy
In the woods whispered about 1t to this
little girl one day, and warned her of
the future when she, like the other
naughty little girl, would have no
friends, and would become an ugly old
witch. So, never having been warned
before, the little girl had been In ig-
norance of the wrong she was wilfully
doing herself. She gladly took the ad-
vice of the woods fairy and mended her
ways, becoming u model of sweetness and
unselfishness."
An hour later Polly ran home to her
mother, who was surprised to see such
a beautiful smile on her little girlie's
face, and to note the sparkle of happiness
in her blue eyes. "Oh. mama" she
cried, leaping into her mothers lap, 81
shall never, never pout again. And I'll
have such lots Of fun and friends, for 1
shall always consider others pleasures
before my own
And after her mama had questioned
Polly and. learned about the dear lady
of the park, and of her two sunny little
daughters, she said:
II need to hear that lady's fairy tales
no more than did my little daughter II
you know where she lives well go to-
gether and call on her.
"Oh. I'm to go each day to the park
and play with the little sisters" ex-
claimed Polly, joyously. "And you may
go, too, mama dear"
And learn some of the good Iady's
fairy tales" added her mama caressing
Polly's curls.