| Show The Sandman Story for Tonight THE JEALOUS QUEEN PART I Once there was a Queen named Sari wh who was no so beautiful that all who first beheld her were dazzled dazzle by her wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- beauty Sh She ruled beside her son on a throne In a farot land Her husband the tho King had died when th their lr t on von was waa a baby The Prince Prince- of course became King but his mother ruled the land King Men ln grew of course to be a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man and thought of ot marrying But unless I can find a wife wh who is ismor ismore snore more beautiful than you are mother he said to the Queen I will not wed Queen Sari was filled with joy when she heard this for she did not want to tobe tobe tobe be pushed aside by bya a younger queen You speak w well ll my son she sho said Your Queen should Indeed be bo f ful I will learn It if there be lie one that can rival me she thought and if I find her she shall be put out of ot the way wa- for I will reign as qu queen en and my son shall never love another better than he loves his mother So the wicked Queen Sari sent Bent for tor I her court Jeweler jewel r and told him to make a wonderful bracelet of ot the purest gold I Iset set sot with rubles rubies pearls and diamonds wrought in wonderful pattern This bracelet she sent out by a servant servant servant ser ser- ser ser- vant ov over r all aU the land that he might enter every palace and home to find one who was more beautiful than his Queen if such a woman lived In another country not far from where Queen Sari lived th there re dwelt a merchant and his wife They had one son named Sina They wanted a daughter but the stork passed them by and they gave up th the thought that some day a little girl might make their hearts glad glady gladyThe I The merchant and his wife made a Journey and one night they had to camp near a forest In the night they were awakened by the cry of a baby and when tho the merchant looked around by the light of a torch he found in a basket tied to a bush a pretty baby girl I God has sent her to us We will take her for our own said the mer mer- chants chant's wife So they named her Bida and took her to live with them and be bea a sister to little lIlUe Sina Bida grew so beautiful that her foster foster foster fos fos- fos- fos ter mother and father were afraid to let her be seen lest some King should want her for his Queen and they would I have to tell how Bida was found Inthe in inthe inthe the forest and knew not her mother or father One day a witch came to the mansion where Bida lived and when she saw her she exclaimed Child you should possess the golden fish that will protect protect protect pro pro- you No one so beautiful as you should Would be without it When Bidas Bida's foster mother heard I this she told the witch if ft she would bring the golden fish she would give I her a bag of gold The next day the witch came and gave to Bida a little golden cask casket t with Jewels set in the top and in it on a velvet cushion was a tiny gold fish with sapphire eyes Tell no one of ot this charm said the theold theold theold old witch but let the child hide It and so long as the hiding place is kept a secret all will be well but never let lether lether lether her be without it If It danger befall her place the fish fishon fishon I on her breast and she will be pro pro- Now It happened that when Queen Sari sent her servant with the wonderful wonder wonder- ful bracelet through all aU the land Bida was grown up and the little golden fish was almost forgotten because her life had been so full of ha happiness One day one of Bidas Bida's servants told her about a wonderful bracelet that was offered for sale In a town that it was so beautiful that all who saw it wanted it but the man would not nots s sell U It unless the the lady ladY who bought It was wa's was beautiful Bida sent for the man to show her herthe herthe herthe the bracelet and when she beheld it she could not be happy without it But her foster mother feared It Som Something told her not to let her beautiful child wear the bracelet Do Donot Donot Donot not buy It my Bida said the foster mother I will buy you one more cunningly wrought than this one Send It away t Bidas Bida's eyes filled with tears and when her fost foster r father saw them he said Let her have it wife if Jt It COSther cost costher costher her weight In gold her tears are precious precious precious pre pre- cious pearls and must not be shed So the bracelet was bracelet was bought and Bids put it on her pretty arm and smiled again Continued d tomorrow Copyright 1918 by the McClure Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate te New MCClure York City News News-I |
