New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-04
* Putting MIR. Finnegan to Sleep <

"'Rccause.' said tho old woman. troubles
are mostly fooishness and so easy to get
rid Of that have to laugh when | think
OF them
Would that / could laugh at mine,
sighed the princess.
Its easy enough when you know how,
said the hag and can show you how. for
| am "A trouble hxer and | know my BUSH
ness. What bothers YOU. fair LADY,
~ will tell you. old woman. | am the
Princess Sadronia and the only ugly prin-
cess I'm the world. the only ugly princess
/ that ever was in the world. Is not that
enough
"'Pish" cried tho old woman + wish
all my jobs wore>a as easy as this. If you
will promise TO do exactly a. I say FOR a
/ year and a day you will not only be beau
/ tiful, but YOU shall have your hearts de-
/ sire
"The princess clappcd her hands.
DO you mean il? Can you. really?
she Gigglcd IN promise. III promise
: anything for that even the half of my
fathers millions
"A don't want his millions said the
old woman Just let me dance at your
! N'uhlnS anu l II w SdiiNhtu .N'N iiSi'H
to what I tell you. When YOU return to
| your palace you VIII find in your bedroom
a washboard-a plain wooden dashboard,
but not an ordinary washboard FOR it is
enchanted. And every day YOU must take
| ills dashboard down into the basement.
. get soiled garment some water and
! soap and put all of them In tub. Then
| YOU must rub some of the soap on the
garment and rub the garment on the
washboard up and down. up and down.
with both hands exactly hfty-seven times
not one time more nor one time less.
Then YOU may make wish. and what
ever YOU wish for will come true but you
must not wish for what you want most
until a year and a day have passed Be
Gin by wishing for little things and work
up gradually 10 the greatest thing DO
you understand me-"
- do. and I'll do II II IL breaks my
back said the princess. and thank You
ever so much Kiss me. YOU dear ola
angel
Then she turned and ran every step
o. the way back to her automobile.
Home, Alphonso" she cried. Home.
and never mind about the speed limit.
bedroom, there. sure enough. was the en-
chanted dashboard, looking like just any
other washboard. And straightway the
princess took it and descended to the base
ment and bribed the janitor and the laun-
dress To keep their mouths shut. which. OF
course. was wholly unnecessary. but then
you never can tell And then she got a
tub and some water and soap. all by her
royal self: and then she got the King
last weeks pajamas and put them on the
enchanted washboard and rubbed them up,
and rubbed them down, exactly iifty-seven
times. even a she was told. And having
done this and wished for a box of choco-
lates as a starter. she went up the stairs
With both hands on her back. And she had
no sooner reached her room than mes
songer bow bearing a box Of chocolates.
rang the front door bell And the princess
tnourbt they surely must be enchanted.
too. for thoy were the finest she had ever
tasted.
so. day by day. Saffronis rubbed and
rubbed and although for time her back
achea and her arms ached she kept right
on 6ftv-seven rubs Ia the wash for she
.,vas a prjncess and mad promised. Besides.
,varv afternoon came flowers or honhons
mr. hooks or jewels I'm answer To her wishes.
and she felt sure that I'm year and p day
tho rrest wish would come true also. And
GRADUALLY as she rubbed the enchanted
vastboard the pain went out OF her back.
and gradually. too. the pain went out OF