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


under his arm a great letter nearly as
large as himself, and this he handed to
Hatta, saying in a solemn tone, For the
Queen: An invitation from the King"
Hatta repeated in the same solemn tone,
only changing the order of the words a
little, From the King: An invitation to
the Queen" and then handed to Alice a
large card on which was written, 1.-The
King requests your presence at an in
veStiture at o'clock on Monday" at
the same time explaining that as he
fish-footman was the transatlantic mes
senger and had just swum across the
ocean with the message, he was too wet
to be allowed in. Haigha bowed low and
said, will it please Your Majesty to
come over and be present?" -
Alice did not quite see why she should
be hidden to the Kings investiture, so
she looked around to see who was going
to answer. But when she looked around
she saw that there was nobody else near,
and, at the same time feeling a weight
found she had crown on. Suddenly
she realized that she had become a
Queen after all, so drawing herself up
she answered, Queen Alice will be glad
to help the King with his object of in
vesting the world with a new happiness;
a happiness attained by sentiment and
romance helping to conquer materialiSm
and greed" The messengers bowed and
handed her another card, which stated
that the King was giving a party in the
Dodo's honor and invited Alice as the
chief guest. Alice felt rather over
whelmed by all this kindness, but, Of
course, could not say NO to anything
so nice.
Then the messengers bowed low and
withdrew, leaving Alice thinking to her
self what lot of unforeseen things had
happened because she went down rab-
bit hole 70 years ago. She thought Of
the dreamy days of her childhood when
Gryphons and Jabberwocks appeared as
real as DucheSses and Cooks; and how,
because of her interest in these strange
animals, shy tutor had gone on weav-
ing stories about them; and because he
had written them down she was now
stopping hundreds of feet above street
level in the tallest city in the world.
At the time when the stories were told
all this part of the city was still not
built on at all, and nobody dreamed of
house more than six stories highland
ing up to heaven, and a continual and
deafening roar of traffic in her ears-the
roar of many millions. Had any one
written description of modern New York
for her 10 years ago it would not even
have been accepted as fairy tale. And
yet here she was, in the midst Of the
greatest wonder of the world, just be-
cause she had dreaming eyes Of won-
der!"
CHE began to rub her eyes to see
whether she were not dreaming again,
and as she did so was not very much
surprised to see grin which reminded
her of the Cheshire Cat.
where do we go from here?" it said
as soon as there was mouth enough for it
to speak with.
"It's no use speaking to It," Alice
thought, till its ears have come" In
another minute the whole head appeared
and then Alice replied, II don't know;
I'm rather bewildered."
Then it doesn't matter which way you
start" said the Cheshire Cat. I'm q
place like this you are sure to get some
where, even If it's not always where you
want to CO."
"Well," said Alice, when want to go
anywhere I always start by going to the