Arizona republican., 1909-05-22

E1~A where all manner of fanciiul woodwork
EES[M was sold TO the foreigners who came by
k&kI EEIJ to the dealers who travelled through
ENASAH5L1 the country to stock their bazaarS II
EsSSSXzI the great towns. Hanas baskets o
wiStaria stem, gray-green and mystic
with the silence OF their birthplace, pure and class
zeal form, always found ready buyers; and the kind
woman the wood shop would say, as she handed
the piles of copperS Ground, coppers with
square hole TO string them by) which represented
Hana's tiny gains, oh, Hama San bring me more OF
the wistaria baskets That onei always
liked, and for the gourd with the hanging vine
why could sell of those for every you bring
Then Hama would smile her thanks and return 10
kamOyo exactly ten per cent OF what she had received
Is thank offering for her trouble, and would say,
Very well, kaTOyo San. | Will see II. | can make
some more soOn | grateful and my poverty Is
enriched bv all your kindness - But as she went away
after tuckng the little packet OF money inside her SASH
she would say 10 herself rather sadly, kamoyo San
sells; she does make the things. If the is shin
ing and the birds singing, can weave the tuyi stems
and think OF pretty shapes for them; but when the
days short and the rain comes down, the fuJi IS
cold and gray, and l want to work with the warm
pine needles or those strong brown ferns. 1t strange
chat kamoyo San does not understand
For Hama was an artist in an humble, unconscious
Uyay and the artist IS Natures born disciple lie may
make break other aegiances but to her he is always
true.
Hama had many things to do beside her woodsy
weaving; there the house to sweep and the food
clothes to wash III the tunbiing brook, and
er grandfathers pipe and tobacco box with its mimic
Fuyama OF wistaria ash to set IN order against his
Homecoming Now and then pilgrims or travellers
veranda seat and when they did, 1t was not long
before Hama brought out her tray carved like lotus
leaf and her best blue teacups full of fragrant topaz
Colored for their refreshmen also the second best
tobacco box with pipe and all complete. Some offered
money and others thanks for the hospitality but the
thanks were all she would accept Then when they
went on their wav she would wish them good luck and
smile and her tasks by the time they stopped
look back her from the hast bend of the climbing
road Once a dainty lady had come in beautiful
baskework palanquin followed by train of servants.
She pretty and smiling that Hama had fell
impeed to make her a present OF hanging basket
the shape OF young MOON with a trail OF wild
ivy dropping its edge and another twned in the
delicate chain from which it meant TO swing and
the lady had said II lovely and fastened it to the
inner roof of her litter; and she gave Hama in
change picture book that she had been looking at as
she journeyed and the book now one of Hana's
greatest treasures. She kept it wrapped in a bit of
purple crepe that kamoyo had given her, and when her
work done she would spread out the mat and
tell herself stories about all the pictures Some OF them
portraits OF the Emperor and the Imperial family
and the very first time she opened she the gvers
Own face looking at her from OF the pages. She
unused to the world and its ways that this only
struck her a most delightful surprise; but when
her grandfather came home and she showed him her
treasure he looked quite awestruck and at last told
her she must have made mistake She shook her
head trlumphanty- No, indeed, there was no mistake
The lady in the picture had her hair more grandiy
dressed and her robe not the same; but that was
her face and no other! 1t rather a peculiar face
with the dark hair growing in five deep points round
the brow the eyebrows unusually arched and the
mouth smiling, and there quaint dimple at one
which the court photographer mad caught very
well Hanas grandfather fetched his horn-rimmed
glasses and began to spell the lettering beneath:
Her Imperial Highness the Princess Chye Takehito.
the cousin of the Emperor!
A few DAYS after the Princess has passed that way.
another visitor TO the cottage on the hill This
was young whom Hama had met two Or three
times in Kamoyo's house, for he cousin OF the
kind shopkeeper and once when Hama had some heavy
bundles carry home, Kamoyo had suggested that he
should go with her and take the rice bag and the roll
of mating which seemed beyond her strength. Hama
had laughed at the idea of anything being beyond her
strength, but she glad of the young conpanlonsip.
and lima talked pleasantly and told her such funny
stories, that she hoped quite nnocently that he would
soon again 80
He had been with her nearly week when Hama
came down from the hFs for, one Of her periodical
visits the village several pretty heads had been
ercsed about the handsome lad, and all manner OF
errands invented bring their into the snop
dozen times day The country maidens have more
liberty than their sisters in the towns; and Matsu
whose father the inEeper told her parents frankly
that if she had her way there the husband for her
But Lima was not dazzed by her preference or her
prospective fortune.
He did not want to talk tc Matsu or any other girl
they all silly creatues And then Hama the maid oil
the woods had in, with her arms tu OF her pretty
wares. the soft shadows and sudden sunbeams OF the
fores. still in her eve, and of its music IN her
voice; her feet fell lightly as the leaf from the tree
and in her of shining hair, baby pine cone had
been stuck for pin Her blue and white robe smeled
of the mountain flowers, and lima thought he had
any beautiful IN his life. HIS big,
foolish heart (for no heart IS over wise at twenty
jumped wildly and then stood still. Hama had paused
in the doorway; the sun behind her framed her in a
golden haze, and indeed, the girl picture OF
sweet and happy innocence.
She looked shyly at the young man, and then kanoyo
had hurried forward relieve her of her baskets and
they all began TO talk and Lima himself
again. Then had come the walk up the hill and the
sight OF Hana's forest home Old SaEubei had received
him kindly and thanked him for helping the child
For the next few days Ijmas moods sernated be
tween dreams of ambition and dreams of love. When
the serner fit was on him he silent, and rather
lordly with good Aunt Kamoyo But in the soft sunset
hour when he would stroll out TO smoke his pipe by
the stream that empted itself into the broad lake. then
remembrance of Hana's sweet face and laughing
ewes would come back to him, and the pines reaching
down long green arms to the water would seem &c
sigh her name 1t was only pet name after all, but
lima had heard her called by other. 1t mean
blossoms" and must have been made for her alone
to Judge by its fitness
Seen in the light of those about Hama, his nenta
landscape changed The distant horizons looked les
inviting nearer sweetness more sweet.
So it was fqregone conclusion that Lima SHOULD