Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01
THE BOTHERsOME WHIRLWIND
Its Encounters With the Magician
and the Little Girl.
Doris Webb. in st. Nicholas.

DorFls NeDb- IN 81. Nicholas.
There was once a magician, and there
was once a little girl with straight hair.
and neither of them had ever heard of
each other. And there was also a whirl-
wind, which had never heard of either of
them. And yet these three interesting
personalities had a great deal to do with
each other in the course of time
The whirlwind was a great bother prin-
cipally because il whirled. 1t whirIed. and
it whirled. and it whirled, all over the
wide, wide world. and every one who
saw or heard it wondered why in the
world ii whirled
we can understand" said they why
one should wish to waltz occasionally
but To spend ones life waltzing would
dizzy the mind of anything that had a
mind to dizzy
But the whirlwind didn't mind its lack
of mind. and it whrled and ii whrled
and it whirled, until at last it whirled
right into the magician, much to his an
noyance and disgust. You would think
that it would, have had better sense. but
it didn't. 1t had whirled away the little
sense il had started with
Now the magician was dignified and
proper, and he was distinctly annoyed
when he found himself seized by the
whirlwind and spinning around SO quick
ly that he was only able to put his toe
to the ground once for every spin. And
when the whirlwind finally left him and
whirled off into space he sat down on
the ground and remarked: IF that
whirlwind and | ever meet again there's
going TO be trouble
There had been trouble the first time
they met. | have just told YOU but
the magician planned another kind of
trouble altogether for their next en-
counter
And just then came "a the little girl
with straight hair Git was so singuIarly
straight it made her unhappy and when
she heard the words the magician was
saying, the little girl with straight hair
was so anxious to see the trouble that
was 10 occur when the magician and the
whirlwind met once more that she fol-
lowed the magician about all day long
And she said:
What will you do. Mr.. Magician, TO
the whirIing whirlwind?'
And he replied: My child, l shall crys-
tallize it-ossify it-in other words trans
fix it, which very much impressed the
little girl with straight hair
And pretty-soon- before-long the whirl-
wind came whirling back again. and
found the magician and the little girl
with straight hair all alone together
And ii was just about to spin the magi-
clan if he had been a top when the
magician discovered its intentions He
J.,
turned 10 chapter IL, entitled ''Whirls and
Swirls." and read I'm loud and forceful
manner mystic and magical formula.
The whirlwind heard and the whirIwind
whistled. and for few seconds il whirled
more furiously than ever; ii just whirled,
and whirled
But magic is magic and it's no use do
ing anything when once it's started.
The whirlWind grew smaller and small
er. though il still whirled furiously.
Can you put it out altogether" asked
the little girl with straight hair.
No said the magician. but when IL
gets small enough l will ystallize-ossify
-transfx it,
And when the whirlwind heard that IL
was so frightened that il seized hold of
the straight hair of the little girl and
at that identical moment the magi-
clan said the magic words that trans
fixed IL.
And what do you think had happened ?
The little girls hair was no longer
straight, but hung in beautiful curls and
waves. | simply can't describe how de-
lighted she was. To have her hair all in
whirls and swirls and curls seemed to
her the loveliest thing imag inable, and
all the other children admired il so much
that they followed the magician about
FOR days. in the hope that he would dis
cover another whirlwind.