Show I I Lm The Th for Tonight Fairy Make-Believe Make Thero There w was s once upon a time a n lIttle fairy who hel helped d all children make be believe be- be Here lieve things and I expect that same samo little fairy Is about today if people would only give ghe It a chance This particular little Fairy Make believe crept through the keyhole of or the door to a a. house where there lived two poor children n named Mary Iary and Johnn Johnny and the they were cr trying trying- hard to play at make make- believe for tor there thero was no food In the the- pantry or fuel for Cor the stove Their mother had to work all day and Mary Marv and Johnn Johnny wanted to make her think they thoy were happy happ when she came homo home at nt night so thc they talked about the thenice thenice nice dinner they were having and how warm It was in tho the room and how beautiful beautiful beau beau- were the pictures on tho the walls Of or course there wasn't any of It really there but as MAr Man said It makes it easier when mother comes home homo to look happy when hen you ou believe malce-belleve all aU day that everything is nice and So the tho little Fairy Make Make-bellevo crept right Into their hearts and made them I so 80 Interested In pretending that the they forgot for for for- got their troubles and then the fairy did more for or while the they were vere asleep that night sho she ran to the home of or her hen old friend Jack Frost and asked his help hell She did diU not ask him to mako make it colder b by coming down from hi his homo home up in the Northland She asked him to come that cr very night and paint on tho the windows of the house in which th the children lived all tho the lovely pictures he could before morn morn- I ing leg Then she he ran to another homo home where the tho people hail had plenty and to spare and this sly little fairy crept Into their hearts and nestled so close that the man put on his fur ur coat and while the children slept ho he came with a basket of food and left I It at their home The next while Mary Iary and Johnny were Just opening their eyes thero there camo came a man with a big load of ot wood and coal which tho the same nice man mm had ordered or or- dered who brought broucht the food for or you see sea it was at nt his house that the tho mother moLher of or orIa Mary Ia and Johnny Johnn r worked every da day iou ou eee see lee Johnn Johnny that oil Wo played make believe about j came ime true said far J Mary I i 1 am so 50 glad we did not let mother know we were hungry Wo We did not get an any beautiful pictures pic pic- pic- pic tures said Johnn Johnny and wo we mode macle- believe wo we had those Just the tho same as the other things I Mary tary thought for tor a moment and then her eyes eves fell feU upon the wonderful paint paInt- ings lags Jack Frost had hid made mado In the tho night Look sho she said said pointing to the window win win- dow dows there is a beautiful castle and aW away l up in the tower I expect there lives a beautiful princess See all tho the mountains around the the- castIe castlo castlo cas- cas tIe and the flowers flowers' like daisies growing out at the tho top Below is a l little lake Jako and a a aswan swan sailing about and anel beyond Is ts the forest and through It will come tho the prince who is to rescue tho the princess from the tho tower S Johnny Johnn open opened cd his eyes Ces wide at first when hen Mary Mar began th the sto-r sto story but ut before sho had bad come como to the tho prince part Johnny l' l saw o too what she did and again tho the lit lIt- tb Fairy Make believe C came through the keyhole of the door and crept close bo- bo side them I And so some lay Jay when you ou cannot go out to pIa play find a a. window where whore Jack Frost has been at nt work and see seo If tr you ou cannot Co find wonderful things Just as did Mary and Johnn Johnny Copyright 1921 IDU by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |