The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-11

Brown Leaf nor your mother. They are
saying how beautiful that brown
~ told you So snapped little leaf.
they were talking about Brown Leaf
1.-THE fairy let him finish before she be-
gan. Then she said: My dear child, let
me finish They were talking about you
how beautiful your brown and red min
gled with the brown Of your mother
"'Oh" said little leaf. how lovely.
Please forgive me and give me back my
sisters and brothers to restore mother
beauty and happiness
But the fairy said: Choose! Either
have your brothers and sisters back and
be ugly the rest Of the year. or
~ shall be ugly was the reply.
"And for the rest OF the year there was
never a happier family in the world. and
the poor. dear old mother never heard
another quarrel from her children
Wrote Story for Parents.
Myra's story OF THE Little Girl and
the Goblin" was written when she was
only eight years old. 1t was done unaid-
ed and in secret. The story Is prefaced
by this naive foreword:
81 wrote this story for q surprise for
my father and dear mother because they
are go sweet"
The story tells OF a little girl named
Pandora who wandered one day into the
woods. where a goblin seized her and
took her off to his den. Pandora's faith
er enlisted the services of q fairy. who
visited the dreadful cave and delivered
the fair girl from the clutches Of the
goblin. Pandora's father got the goblin
under his power and forced the latter to
lead them to a beautiful palace, the 10
cation of which was known only to the
evil spirit.
The story continues:
And Pandora saw the palace and liked
it and lived there long time.
Then the kings son came through
the woods and at once fell in love with
Pandora and said to her father: May I
said: You may have my daughter. lit
tie prince
Pandora Liked the Princess.
''Then the prince was happy and he
sang a song of,love to her. And Pandora
liked the little prince and the prince
liked the little lady. So the prince and
princess married and lived as happy as
a king and queen and never were sad.
And their mother and father lived as
happy as a mother and father could.
Then a dragon came and said: I
have come to eat you up And he rush
ed upon them and ate up the fairy. But
the fairy took a tiny wand and pounded
on the teeth of the dragon, and It panied
him so that he spate the fairy up. But
just then the prince and princess ap-
peared and scared the dragon. And the
king and queen took the mother and
father to the palace and they lived there
happy ever after"
Myra is much fonder Of her little story
entitled why the Sky Is Blue" And
her mother also likes it better. 1t is
not long. 1t follows:
once the sky was painted white all
the time and there was no sun and the
earth was cold and barren.
Now 1t happened that in the north Of
the sky there was born a beautiful baby
boy and he was named Sun. He grew
and grew until he was q young man.
he went he shed a great
light and all who knew him loved him.
One of the Gods Was Angry.
Zone day he got a message from
dear friend saying that his sister was
very sick and wanted him. So he start
ed. It was painting day in the sky and
one Of the fairies had left a bucket of
blue paint in the road. Sun was hurry
Ing along and was not looking where ne