The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1915-12-23

with me, too. you and your umbrella
and your parrot and your dog--and the
footprints.
We need you In our family. I'm sure
you'n be much better company than the
persons we're always meeting in the
magazines
The arabian Nights" OF Course
Hello, Prince Ahmidl Where did you
come from, you and your two brothersf
Arabian Nights" OF counsel Tell me
something that has always puzzled me.
Why 10 It that you younger brethren
were always 30 successful in the old
stories? You always brought back the
golden apple, and found the golden
fleece, and married the beautiful prtn-
cess, and killed the hideous dragon.
Didn't big brother ever do any ct these
things at all?
think I'll take you along. too, you
and Aladdin and Sindbad and the rest
Of them. You're so rich and 30 hand
some and so prosperous and so lucky,
like to have you in the neighborhood.
Hans Anderson-how shall Lever pass
Here's the Snow Queen, and the Little
Mermaid, and Karen with the red shoes,
and Ida, who turned into q yellow lily
because she was envious, and here are
the Four Winds who came to visit
their mother in the great cavern, whore
she roasted an OK whole for supper for
'T Oh. no, Sir west Wind. that was a
fne journey you took tho young prince,
; the blue sky, Aren't you ashamed OF
! yourself, Brother Boreas, to 80 drops
! ping iuicles and snowhakes all over the
; place; Poor little Kay How rd misg ;,r
there in the Snow Queens country and
he could no IongeE remember. and be
lonely. cah't leave YOU and the little
! Fir Tree here in the shop window-that
would never do.
Worth Many Modern HerOines.
Little women why. Beth. how
sweet you are! Yet--well, Amy. did It
J turn out SO well. YOUR romantic love
marriage, after ALI Hello. 10! as brisk
| and sensible as ever. How have done
| without you all this while7
Why. you're worth a dozen erratie,
/ erotic heroines in q dozen best sellers.
\ You never did tmnES that you knew
were wrong. and then called yourself
prosecuted when you rot your Just des-
You never fen N. love with somebody
] else's sweetheart or even dreamed OF
running away with somebody else's nus
baud-and yet you managed to be hap
lpy somehow. wonder how you did 1t.
I And you were Door. too. and. lived II
a little brown house-you and '.The Old.
Fashioned Girl" and Rose in Bloom.
and THE EIGHT Cousins" and tine
4 Five Little Peppers"-nOt all OF tbs
i same family exactly. but the same kind
\ of wholesome. honest. lovable, real peo
pie. There wasn't an automobile be
tween you, and II one of YOU had new
scarlet ribbon for her hair she felt hlk'
queen. And as for yachts and foot
men and boxes at the opera, you neyei
seemed to have even heard Of them.
Best-SeIlers All To Go.
Come along. 10 and Beth and Amy
Come, Max and Prince Charlie ant
Archiei we want YOU. too. to help III
and the children We love ret back Il
sanity and sense and love and. hom
again. ,. #. Wa
I'm going to pitch every best selle
in the house out of the wihdoV thu
very night and real the old-fashione'
chiidren's books through, word 70
word, every one of them. before Civ
them away ct Christmas.
Won't It be a relief to get up read
ing acduaintance with the simple, nat
ural. lovable creatures in those book
aEain-1ust for a change?
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