The Prescott daily news., 1912-05-31
EXPERIMENTATION
 Flower Magic

By CLARISSA MACKIE

Agatha Lynde gathered her little fad closer to her heart and finished the fairy tale she had been telling In the twilight of an April day.
 And so the beautiful princess who had suffered so much pain and known so many sorrows. hardened her heart against all the world and was very un- happy indeed. One day she wandered by chance into the gardens of strange prince who loved flowers so much that he devoted all his time to caring for them He had fields of pinks and mignonette and peoples and pansies and roses of every description. There were lilies and forget-me-nots and every beautiful flower that blooms.
 When the princess came suddenly upon the flowers and stood In the midst of them and saw their beautiful fragrant faces turned toward her. all the sorrow in her heart melted like ice in the sun and she cried for sheer happiness of living in such a beautiful world
 After long time she married the prince and came to live among the flowers and whenever anyone was stricken with pain and sorrow the prince and his wife brought them at once to the flower fields and the rose gardens and they forgot their trou- bles at once"
 T wish there was a magic garden like that near New York;" sighed Don, his wistful eyes fixed on the sunset glory shining beyond the rooftops.
 Darling. l wish there was!" cried Agatha, hugging him closer. We would go to 1t together and forget how poor we are-and everything!"
 It would have to be a really true garden" declared Don. "because I've been in the flower shops and although they're lovely-they don't smell just like outdoors ought to smell"
 "Of course they don't! haven't known what 1t was to smell real flow CTS since I came here to this terrible city! Agatha's voice broke slightly.
 Mother dear! If you could only have gone with me to Grandmother Lynde's that summer! That was a garden!" Don smiled in ecstatic recol- lection of the only time he had ever been in real garden-and after all that was merely the prim suburban backyard of Grandmother Lynde's place In High Hills Agatha had not been invited to go because the Lyndes ala not approve of the wife of their only adored son, Pierre, who played nrst violin in a well-known orchestra agatha Dale had been very young and foolish when she defied the man uates of her family and eloped with me handsome violinist
 She had led lonely life there in tue DE city until Don came to bright eh her existence. Pierre was tenn peramental and exceedingly selfish anu ms love had been a thing of a aay' When he was taken sick she nao nursed him side by side with his mother who would have driven the Aaeu Vile away. but Agatha had stay eu unul the last breath had sighed past hls lips. When Madame Lynde paSsiohately declared that Pierre misnt nave lived but for Agatha's in. esAper'eneed nursing, the girl.widow Nau packed her few belongings and sone away with her son-disappeared n the maze of tenements of the East Side ''e 'A"s' 'o Agatha had grown cold and hard 'ae outside world which had treat. na n ner none too we'll. Six-year.old ,h". oa was the one thing in the world n ,a"' soe loved There was not one aaaa n0ry that she dared cling to. for os .n one sent out stabbing thorn :" pam to shock her.
 ,, ner stern father had been unforgiv. As' her mother had died in Agatha, @