The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-14


Once upon a time there lived e
poor peasant and his wife in q cot
tage on the side of a mountain, an0
one night the stork came while they
slept and brought the peasant and
his wife a dear little baby girl.
So dainty and sweet looking was the
new baby that her parents named her
Sweetheart, and the fairy queen and
little fairies. peeking in at the win
dow one night, saw the dainty little
Sweetheart in her cradle, and sh.l
was so beautiful the queen told tho
fairies to enter and give the baby a
blessing
ooh, what blue eyes she has!" said
enc fairy, for the baby opened her big
eyes as the fairies touched her with
their wands, but she did not cry
babies never cry when they see fair
les, for they see far more than grow
ups think or know about.
She is as dainty and pretty as q
kings daughter should be- said an
other fairy.
Let us make her a kings daugh-
ter" said another fairy; I'VE can cast
that charm over the life as well as
any other
yes, that will be splendid. The
dainty little girl shall become a prin-
cess" said all the fairies together.
waving their wands as they spoke,
and out they went, leaving the baby
asleep and little did her parents know
what had befallen her.
Sweetheart grew to be a beautiful
young girl but she lived in the cot
tage with her parents and was still
the daughter Of poor peasant, for
the fairies set no time for her to be-
come a princess.
One day while Sweetheart was work
ing in her garden among her flowers
she saw a funny little creature she
knew II once was goblin.
Come with me" he said. "and will
show you where the prettiest flowers
In all the world grow"
Sweetheart loved, next to her par
eats, the flowers, and so without wait
ing to tell her parents where she was
going she followed the goblin into the
woods. Along the path he led her I'M
I'll all at once Sweetheart found she
was in the midst Of the woods and a
place she had never been before.
But lust as she began to be fright.
onod the goblin said, Here we are, y
and opened the gate to a garden where
stood a funny crooked little house, so
crooked that il looked as if 1t might
tumble any minute.
But the flowers that grew In this
garden we're so beautiful and gorgeous
that Sweetheart forgot all about the
little house, and the goblin, too, for
when she looked for him he had dis
appeared
Sweetheart began to think about CO.
ing home after she had seen all the
flowers, and she was just going out Of
the gate when funny, cracked voice
said WHITTIER away, my pretty?"
Sweetheart looked around, and in
the door of the crooked little house
stood a funny. crooked little woman
with a crooked stick in one hand on
which she leaned.
Come in, my pretty" she said to
Sweetheart and viii show you more
flowers
Sweetheart went in the crooked
house and there she caw in many pots
beautiful red and white and pink pop
pies growing, but tAo popp!os we're
the only things il thc room that were
standing straight; ali the furniture was
crooked, the legs OF the tahle and the
chairs were bent and crooked like the
funny crooked little woman.
Sweetheart stood looking at the
flowers, and all at once she felt very
sleepy She swayed and nodded, and
so did the poppies, for the crooked
little woman was grooming as she
stood behind Sweetheart, and waving