Show v-c v I I WA H I I IN I r By Uarda Varda McCarty When fairy come true It only means that this funny world of ours has ha had liati an em extra hard bump and been pushed back hack Into Its real place be because because because be- be cause worlds get out of gear sometimes and i skid kid wildly around for a n while un until til the fairy godmother wakes up on her lob Job throws throw the clutch into hl high h steers the bit of the world which is in wron wrong up into the sunshine again and then the world becomes a fairy world once more Occasionally fairy godmothers godmothers godmothers god god- mothers will take Inopportune naps but tho the real nice thing it is that they can be bc awakened if IC tho right words are arc only said sald to them Perhaps anyone anone In need either of ot fair fairy godmothers or 01 their guiding clutch on on tho the steering wheel might might-do well to apply appl at Pioneer park playground playground play play- ground unless amateur restoratives deVised deVised de- de annually by the charlt charity organizations and the charitably ably Inclined people people peo peo- pie o of the tho cit city has han already taken hold of the runaway way car and started It up onto the sunshine track a again aln Just at present though Pioneer park is the city godmother Aside from furnishing guaranteed sunshine and ole holes and baseball battle grounds and Cinderella ball where er e everybody bod Is the fairy princess ss and music hours when Joan of Arc and Old Black Joe Joo shake hands and become good friends It also has a n few little pet sunshine bags stored awa away In unexpected unexpected unexpected places Just waiting for Cor certain little people One little gui girl a eyed black-eyed fair fairy at that that who lives In a boarding house where all aJl the fairies are not fairies but bul where some Borne turn out to be brownies has found her real enchanted castlo castle at atthe atthe atthe the Pioneer playground The place where she lives Is K down near the raIlroad railroad railroad rail raIl- road tracks and of course that Isn't so nice as the swings swing and lawns and wading wading wading wad wad- ing ponds and play schools at lit the public pla playground so she hardly ever eyer stays stas down loWn at the railroad tracks only when she sleeps at nights or while she hurriedly dresses and washes and combs In the tho mornings GODMOTHER AWAKES Her Hel name Is a l pretty name like a flower Jower but unlike some flowers she has not had all aU the nice sunshine and the latest kin kinds s of ot sprinkling cans and hoes and rakes to make her grow Much luch like the Immortal Topsy she ha has just I come up A little bit overa overa year a ago o oher her father went awa away from home and ho hasn't come back yet cL That would be upsetting to any flower garden Then the fairy godmother went to I sleep and before she woke up again the little girls girl's mother had killed herself I In one of ot the train stations That left tho the little fairy child all alone with her I grandmother mother and her hel grandmother is old and hasn't got a lot of oC gold things to make flowers grow with But Dut over at Pioneer park the tho fairy airy godmother woke up and there thero Is lots lotsof lotsof lotsof of fun and lots of or sunshine Ono One day clay in the bath house when all the tho little girls were getting ready read for forI forthe I the tho swimming pool the kind of or waterIng watering watering water water- ing that makes little fairy flowers grow one little fairy took off orr a beautiful pair of or dainty white slippers and set them awa away in the corner of or her dressing room where nothing could fall on them or nobody could walk on them But another little fairy a eyed black one saw Raw the slippers and since she didn't have hae an any or even any shoes that were not so pretty prett and dainty as the pers in fact since ne was a a. barefooted barefooted barefooted bare bare- footed fairy she slipped her feet into the slippers Just by wa way of experiment so 0 she would know what slippers felt like Then she sho forgot to take tale them off oct Wouldn't anybody forget unless their fair fairy godmother was awake I I THEN SHE REMEMBERED She Sho walked waed all tho the way home with them before she remembered When she got home she found a a. messenger from the playground there to help her remember The playground can help people remember in nice ways so that tha It doesn't make them cr cry to think they forgot but the dainty white slippers had hart to go so back Then the little girl said I don dont don't know I forgot because I 1 know al all about God I wont won't for forget et again bu but please let me stay at the thc all day long tong and watch me so I wont won't try how nice slippers feel an any more That makes males one ono more little fairy Cairy waiting for the fairy prince and th the glass slipper but In the meantime PIoneer Pioneer Pioneer PIo Pio- neer park pari Is playing a wide awake 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