The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-08

day afternoon by admtr1ng little friends, and when the door is opened there is n rush for the box seats Con the floor of the stage where she staDSss.)
 One of the sehSol teachers told Mrs WhitasS1ez that she kept some of her chih1Ven jn after srhool on story day and they cried and looked so for iorn that she told them they could go and stay in on Friday instead. A lit- tie girls sewing circle, which had been meeting on Thursdays. changed their time to Friday.
 As familiar characters are men toned in the story telling, the chil- dren may be observed exchanging smiles and nods of recognition and pleas0re. And one little girl upon reaching home told her mother thai MrS. ftesides had not mentioned Betty Blue. who lost her Sunday shoe. Boys of the sixth and seventh grades appoi nted spokesmen to ask for Tom Sa Savyera and ''Huckleberry Finn"
 Tomorrow Mrs. Whitesides will tell the story. from I.ongfellow's poem. King Robert of Sicily "rhe Story of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, and will con inue tlbe seral: Miss Minerva and William Green Hill" Following IS Mrs. Whitcside's in
  ters, as recently told. Perhaps some other children or even grown-up folks might enjoy t.
 If you ever go to London town. be sure that you knock at the palace of old King Cole, and ask the way to Mother Goose village. He will tell you to go down the big road, cross London bridge, down the little wind ing path. over the crooked stile, the very one where the Crooked Man found the crooked stx-pence, up Prim- rose Hill. and there you will see Mother Goose village lying before you.
 'Tt isn't one bit hard to find, and quite the love4test place in the world. for Mistress Mary. who really isn't half as contrary as most people think she is, keeps beautiful flowers bloom
 
 is the sea, the very one where the three Wise Men of Gotham took their sal in their wonderful bowl, and above it all the blue, blue sky, with 1 out the trace of cob webb on it. for the old Woman whol goes up Nh a. basket and .ssyveeps the cob webs off of the sky with her broom sometime es sves 90 times as high as the moon to get tho tfniest cob webs.
 If you go. there, Mother Goose her 1 self will take you all over the vil- iage. and let you shake hands with many ct the people. First she will take yUu out into the meadows where you Will See Boy Blue and Little Bo- Pesp booking after the sheep. Then you will go down to the river Dee and vixdf tho Jolly MiFfor and his little l daughter Peg. And don't forget to visit the Crooked Man, for he is the Story Teller of Mother Goose Village, and he As mover too busy to stop long enough to tell any of the Mother Goose aszSsdren a story.
 T am sorry to tell you that there was once an accident in Mother Goose VuiAs7n. and since then Old Mother Tewitchaxatt has but ono eye. Old Father graybeard is without tooth or tongue- and poor old Soioman Grundy died
 'srhan there is the Old Woman who lives in a shoe, who has so many ] children she doesn't know what to do. And there's Mother Hubbard, Jack l Sprst and his wife, Doctor Foster who went to Gloster in a shower of l rain. and the King and Queen of ! Hearts. Oh, yes, and our new neigh bor. Miss De Deffy-aown-diIy. who has I irpef f,uRnss n t0wu
 But what you will nNo best of all 1 is to visst tho littfe red school house, especially if you get thore in time 1 to hGax the school mastor call the raA xhero Is Tommy Tucker, who zings- On, yes. and Diekoy Long. too, Of cossrse. every ono loves to hear him si.g beosnse he always sings funny ssuss- And thero is Tom. Tom the Pfpoz@s son who plays. and Jack-Be Nambie, who is qufte the best athlete in schp0f. Aruple Simon and Tommi 6 Tftf1omouse a<s the best of friends, s,ocsuse Shey both fovc to fish, even ! if Simple Simon does fish in a pail and Tnuzude Titffemouse catches his ! fSsbes in other mons ditches. Eliza . beth, EAypftcah, Betsy and Bess always