The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-07

knit tomorrow" said little Mar
garet, "a she drew her rocking chair
real close to the big comfortable
armchair where her grandmother
was sitting.
Come on. Grandma" pleaded
Lloyd, Gee, it's awful lonesome for
q fellow to be shut in for the FLU
and not 60 to school when he's not
sick q hit," he added a little dis
gugtedly, for he had had to miss
over q week of school just as the
new term was commencing because
the doctor said he had a very light
case of the '4fiu."
-rEs, do, Grandma" broke in
baby Jean, for story telling hours
we're wonderful events to her even
II she did not understand most OF
what was said.
well, now" laughed grandma,
drawing little Jean to her and Civ
ing her a double big kiss, and TAX
ing her, into her lap, laying aside
the black socks she was knitting,
and continued: II know a brand
new story. One you have never
heard. It's about the Snow Fairies.
Did you ever hear about the snow
fairies?"
"Oh, no. Grandmother, tell US
about them" cried the children all
together.
Way up NORTH" began grand
mother, way up beyond the farth-
est point of the north star, live the
little Snow Fairies, gay little art
lists are they with nothing in the
world to do but dance gaily through
the air and paint up or let's say,
camouflage, every tree and old
black fence and falling shed into
pictures as weirdly magnificent as
any picture that has ever been
painted In oil or water colors.
How many are there of them"
asked Lloyd.
"Oh, there are more millions Of
them than there are downy feath-
ers on all the little baby birds all
over the EARTH" said grandmother,
with a sweet smile.
They live" she continued, "in
palaces of crystal white, sparkling
with myriads Of diamonds and
more cleaning in the slanting win
ter sunlight than the gold-spfred
temples of the Orient CLEAN under
scorching tropic suns. Do you re-
member the little ships and flowers
Of spun glass which you saw at the
exhibition"
"Yes," cried Margaret and Lloyd,
and Margaret added, They were
30 beautiful"
"'Es," assented Baby Jean grave
ly, thinking that she was expected
to say something too.
WELL" grandmother went on,
these palaces of the Snow Fairies
have carvings on them that look
something like that spun glass,
only they are much more finely
spun, inner than cobwebs, and very,
very white. In these palaces the
radiant little Snow Fairies live all
the year round. There Is Crystal
Jack, Snow White, Silver Foot, Joy
Of Winter. White Cap, Tumble
Frost, and millions and millions of
others, living busy little lives in
gently ruled over by
King Siiverbell and his beautiful
wife, Queen Laetitia of the White
Soul"
But aren't they very, very cold?
They don't have furnaces up there,
10 they, Grandmother asked Mar
garet, shivering a little as she
thought Of 1t.
NO, they don't, dear" laughed
grandmother merrily, "but they do
not like furnaces; they do not
even like the sun when he gets
too close. They do not ever feel
the cold, and they like to live best
where 1t is very, very cold. They
Just cannot live at all where the
sun is right above the land and
very, very hot. They would lose
Ill their beautiful clothes and would |
soon die. That is the reason the |
Snow Fairies only live where it is
,ery cold"
"Oh, tell US about their dresses,
what are they like"
Isked Margaret eagerly.
Just like girl! Come on Grand
tell us what they do all