The San Francisco call., 1909-06-05
THE FAIRY PRINCESS WEDDING DRESS

THERE was a great stir and hustle
in the principal city of Fairyland.
Every one seemed in a terrible
hurry and as il they had great deal
of work to get finished in very
short time. And indeed they had, for
the meaning OF all this commotion was
that the fairy princess was going 70
be married, and the fairy queen had
ordered that everything for the we'd
cling was TO be of the very best
Not only all the working fairies,
but al the grand mobiles were busy. for
my Lord Firehy had to provide the
snusic, and my Lord Butterfly the
Sssncing, while Lord Robin had been
Tor a long time very busy thinking
ehout his speech.
Now Lord Firehy had been very much
bothered about what sort of music
was the best and so he left Fairyland
and visited this world, where he
listened TO all the great singers and
players and all the grand people that
make the very best of music. Still
he was not quite satisfied. for. although
il was all very good. he was not quite
sure that il was the best. One beau
tiful moonlight night he went out into
the palace grounds, and there he heard
ltbe birds sinFing-the birds sing al
night IS well as al day in Fairyland
you know-and my Lord Firefly did
not bother any more lie made ar
engagements with sil the birds TO sing,
with the nightingale to lead them:
then ne went home quite satisfied that
he had the very best OF music for the
wedding
Lord Butterfly just asked the very
incest dancers in Fairyland TO promise
10 dance at the wedding and then
troubled no more about it. for. you
know. nobody can dance like the fairies.
As for Lord Robins speech. nobody
thought about il, except perhaps to
hope that il would not be very long
So all the preparations went on gayIy
and smoothly
Here we come to the most interest
ing OF all the very interesting things
the. princess wedding dress There
had been great disputes about the ma
terial; nobody could quite make up
their minds which kind would be the
best The queen wanted it to be made
OF the stuff that dreams are made
Of" but the princess said, no; one
has such very nasty dreams some
times" At last it was settled. and the
weavers set TO work. Nobody but them
and the royal family were allowed to
see this wonderful dress until the we'd
ding DAY As the time drew near it
was clear that something had gone
wrong with the making of the dress.
FOR the king and queen would keep
on visiting the place where the weav-
ene worked, and the princess refused
10 talk about il, and as for the weav-
ers. they wore very worried looks in
deed
The fact OF the matter was this
that although the dress was made OF
the most beautiful. the strangest stuff.
there was something lacking that
spoiled it. All the kings wise counsel
ors thought and thought. but could
never decide what was to be done.
And the king and queen visited the
'weavers yet more frequently; the prin
cess hardly spoke at all. The wedding
day drew near, yet the dress was not
ready.
Now there was in that principaI citv
of Fairyland some one who ought not
20 have been there at ALL and that
some one was a brownie prince You
know the brownies are not one bit
IKE the fairies-they are wicked and
mischievous little people This brownie
prince, whose name was Perieent was