Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-05


Central Park. It's so pretty; besides, it's
quieter than some Of the other places"
That's all right If you want to go to
the Kings palace, but not much help If
you want to 60 back to the boat you left
a little while ago."
"Oh, but like the howers-the cherry
trees, the magnolias and the azaleas;
they are so lovely and they grow so much
better than they do in the center of Lon
don. Besides, don't want to think about
the boat just yet; I'm enjoying myself
here very much, thank you"
How would you like to 60 down to the
country one day?" said the Cheshire Cat.
why, that would be lovely" said Alice,
do you think you could arrange it?"
well, here comes the White knight,
and expect he can do something about
it," replied the Cheshire Cat, who, hearing
noise like lot of old tin cans and
great squealing of brakes, had looked out
of the window. You see, you always
know when he's coming because his horse
died so many years ago that his automo-
bile is very nearly as old by now, and
you can't mistake it,
Presently the White knight came in,
and the Cheshire Cat told him that Alice
wanted to go down to the country.
"Why, of course" said the White
Knight. II always carry the key of the
garden around with me, and shall be
delighted to take you there"
So the first thing he did was to take
her to an enormous palace which they
called a railroad station. Alice realized
at once that this was, 70 years ago, the
long, low hall, Lit up by row of lamps
hanging from the roof, into which she
had first arrived at the end Of her fall
down the rabbit hole, and out of which
led the door into the beautiful garden,
which she had so much difficulty in
opening. But now that hall had become
a marble palace as large as the hall had
seemed when she was only a few inches
high. In fact, she almost thought she
must have been eating the mushroom
which made her grow smaller when she
first went into it because she felt SO tiny.
But she looked around and saw that the
other people were about the same size,
and took courage again when she got
into the train and found everything
normal. When she got to the other
end she was met by Tweedledum and
Tweedledee, and at the party was the
White Knight and the White King.
Later the White King took Alice to see
his garden, full of dogwood and aZaleaS
and delicious smelling lilac. The flowers
all nodded to her and welcomed her just
as they had done when she was child,
each one adding its own particular greet
ing in the way that only flowers can do.
But she was not allowed to enjoy this
tranquil scene for long. Quite soon she
heard loud buzzing noise, and present.
ly saw large snapdragon-fy approach
ing. The White King got very upset, and
Immediately ordered his whole army out
to catch it. In the melee that enSued
many persons were injured, and some
killed, but the White King did not seem
to mind this. OF course, the snapdragon-
fly escaped, but nobody minded this at
all except the White King, who became
furious, and said:
Its perfectly terrible. Since prohibit
ton we simply cannot get rid Of these
pests. They would as soon sting you to
death as not, but nobody seems able to
catch them"
ALICE had not time to stay and look
for long, as there were other people
waiting to see her, and very soon she had
to return to New York in any case. When
she got back there she found awaiting
her the Red Queen and the White Queen,
each on one side Of the Queen Of Hearts,