The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-17
Queen of the Sleeping Beauties
Will Not Awaken More.
An Injury to Her Ankle Proves
Fatal i'm q Week.
FATHER SEEKS PHOTOGRAPH
Helen Harris Childish Beauty
Caught Many Eyes.
At Fair Grounds During Recent
Fete-She Visited Cemetery.

will pay price expected for a
photo any description showing
the pageant entitled, The Sleep
ing Beauty which led in the re-
cent exercises given by the school
children at Topeka fair grounds.
r. C. Harris, 1106 East Sth.
Phone 1918 Black
"Oh, 1 know that parents always
think their children the most beaut1-
full, but there was never such beauty
as hers. All those who saw her at
the funeral remarked upon 1t. The
undertaken who prepared the body
and the photographer who took pre-
ture of her say they have never seen
such beauty. But it was the beauty
of death-a death like sleep-for she
died as she had INDEPENDENTLY ana
taken shows her indeed a queen of the
sleeping beauties. But it Is a picture
of her dead, and we want one taken
of her while she was living.
So explained r. C. Harris, l106 East
Eighth street in inserting an adver-
tisement in the Want" columns of the
Topeka State Journal
Helen Harris was the little queen
of the play, Sleeping Beauty, the
opening number of the school chill
dren's fete held at the fair grounds on
May 10. June IL the little Queen of
the sleeping beauties was wrapped in
eternal sleep
''She was just six years old to the
en- father. ''She died on her sixth
birthday and at the same hour of the
day on which she came to US just six
years before. We have no recent pic
ture of her taken while she was liv-
ing"
No Picture Is Found.
Many Topeka photographers went
to the fair grounds on the day all the
school children of the city participat-
ed in a fete. But of all the pho
1, hot dnxr
was present when the festivities be-
gan. The Sleeping Beauty" was the
first number following the overture
and being first, no photographers
were on hand to take a picture, un-
less possibly some amateur awaited
himself of the opportunity. Mr.. Har-
ris has visited all the photograph
studios in the city but without sue
cess. If any amateur took a picture
of the Sleeping Beauty re can give
Mr.. Harris great joy by letting him
know.
Monday at the Aurora thcater NOV
ing pictures of the children's exercises
at the fair grounds, which were at
tended by probably ten thousand per-
sons, were shown. They were taken
by the Pathe people. But the picture
Mr.. Harris is seeking was not shown.
He still has hope, however, for the
Pathe operator took many more pic
lures than were displayed at the
Aurora Mr.. Harris has written to
the Pathe company to learn whether
a picture of his little daughter was
taken.
Not only was Helen's death strange
in that it occurred on her sixth birth
day to the very hour" said Mr.. Har-
ris. ''She never had been in ceme-
terry in her life, but after she was hurt
she told her mother she wished to go
to cemetery. Her mother accom-
panied her to Topeka cemetery She
took a circuitous route and stopped
at one particular spot. The place
where she stopped is where she now
lies buried. What is more strange,
Mrs. Harris watched the funeral pro-
cession bearing the body through the
cemetery and without any direction
from any one those in the lead I'M
consciously followed the same circuit
Gus route which Helen had chosen in
her visit to the cemetery
The little queen died from compli-
cations resulting from injuring one of
her ankles on a sidewalk. There were
indications of blood poisoning. She
was injured Saturday. June 5, and
died last Saturday, just week later.
She was a member of Miss Lula Nc
KEGS kindergarten class in Parkdale
school. Jewell Bafin, a classmate, was
king of the Sleeping Beauty with
little Helen.