The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-06
The Magic of Love
By WINIFRED BLACK.

THE children were in high sIce
u this morning
They brought something home from
down the hill. where the shops arc
something mysterious and weird and
magic, they said. and they tiptocd
around and brought Il great blue bowl
with white flowers in the rim, and
they filled the bowl with clear water,
and then they set the bowl on tho
little step that leads To the place
where the tall hollyhocks stand
watching over the wall to see who
is being good and who is boing bad
down in the village, and they opened
n little white wooden ho& and took
out wee shavings OF things. like 1T
tie spIiuters from some stocky plant,
and the little boys eyes grew dark
and wonderful
My turn first" said he. and into
the bowl he dropped one OF the little
sDlntcrs, and IL was no longer
splinter: IL lowered slowly, slowly
q blossom Of crimson on the shining
surface OF the clear water.
oh" sighed the little boy in &C.
stacy "Oh, It weslly Is flower. II
water flower, It's magic, mother; II
IS weally, weally magic"
And the little girl smiled Inysteri-
ously. and opened her llly-liRe hand,
and down In the bowl Of wafer she
dropped another splinter. "Sh-h.'
whispered the little Srl. i've wished
II to be somcthing." and the dull.
dead splinter. Ike the other, opened
and blossomed into a flower OF ce-
icsiial blue. and by the side OF il rode
a tiny ship for fairies. Aud then the
bowl was full Little ducks swan in
the clear water hlucb'rds darted here
and there. lily unfoldcd its white
petals, 4 rose bu,shed as only roses
do, and a fairy snip set sail across
lat ,-.tl.
OH said the little boy, his gray
eyes wide with wondering delight:
''oh, ] love To see magic, mother: |
love TO see InaGic!'
And the children laughed and
played for an hour with the blue bowl
OF clear water and the tiny splinters.
The little boy came and looked into
my face with his clear eyes that are
like a ilttle lake in the forest.
Isn't it funny?' said he. Isn't
!t funny about magic things? They
stay In a box and they look Hike any
thing else. and then you take them
TO water and put them in and they
arc be-au ti-fui thinss-au at once.
Just because OF the water. Isn't II
funny?"
And told tho little boy thought
IL really was funny. very funny. and
very sweet. too. and something 10 he
thought OF. Tho Ettle magic water
flowers that come in tho wooden box,
yet they arc magic for all that, real
magic.
How many souls are there IKE that
humble quiet plain, unint"rsstlnGH
Battle them In the magic OF love and
they are transiGuTed.
| saw a woman on the street car
tho other day-p!ai', poor. humble. a
little dull-and all Il once her TatGc?
stupid face was cloriGed with a smile
that made her bce utiful, and looked.
ami by the roadside stood little
homcly boy frccltled as q turkeys
egg red headed. wide mouthcd, bare
footed.
Hers. she loved him: the magic
flower OF motherhood grow 10 glorious
beauty TlSht before my daZZlcd eyes.
4 dUll-cycd man stood IN the office
OF Justice tho other day waiting.
The door opcucd, a woman enforced
? faded Insignificant little creature
YOU could never have told her from
a thousand or hcT kind I'm q crowd
The mans eyes blazed like stars and
tho wonHr's face shone.
They had been waiting for this day
for years. The woman had a sick
mother 20 care for. the man was
bringing up his littlc sisters. Now
they were free, and today they came
20 claim each other and go home 10
q friendly nrcside together. after
many ycars Magic, again tho old,
old magic OF love.