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Show IDdddyY" Fairy Tale AARY GRAHAM LXMR 1 cc"iiou n n Tin wwiffi w-o CHILD NEWS "I have another copy of Naturelf.nd News." said F.illie Brownie, "to read c it) j children hear MrToy-Rabbit- g0 Pussy-Cat. bs ,e( Ulem know that we like them and would do them no harm." "We like to hear the news of the children, too." said the Fairies. "So do we," said the Elves. "So do we." said the members of the Oaf family. "So do we," said the members of the Iiogey family. "So do we," said Witty Witch and ! Old Mr. Giant. "So do we," said the rest of the Brownies. "I shall read the paper aloud now," Oil 1 i e Brownie said. They all sat about and these were the items of news which Billie Brosv-nie Brosv-nie read aloud: Six children and a toy rabbit recently re-cently had a picture of themselves taken sitting on a veranda. Bill, the youngest of all, sat on a cousin's lap. Bill is only a hay, though In no time at all he'll be a real boy- He Is fast becoming that way now! He seems more boyish every day. The toy rabbit rab-bit was sometimes called a toy rabbit and sometimes called Mr. Bussy Cat. He had been made supposedly to look like a rabbit, but before he had been finished he just as closely resembled a cat. So he was most Interesting looking. He sat up proudly in the picture held by Bill's only girl cousin. Bill's large dark brown eyes and light red-golden hair, and the llttle-glrl-cousln's soft coloring, and the color of the eyes of the others In the photograph pho-tograph did not show, otherwise the photograph was a great success. Mr. Toy-Kahhit-l'ussy-Cat was not In the least ashamed of his strange looks. Little Mahalia has a new broom. Her other broom became quite useless and she couldn't sweep nicely with It at all. Little Mahalia loves her new broom and calls It a "sweet" broom and a "good" broom, nud sweeps the sidewalk three times a day now that she has such a good broom. Maggie's father calls her "Love Mag" and "my daughter" and "my Dupps." They are all his pet names for her. No one el.se calls her by these names and Maggie loves her father's pet names and feels so happy when he uses them. L'laine has a little toy Jug and saucer sau-cer and she pours the water from them when she Is In her bath back I and forth and has such a good time. First she fills them with water from her bath water. Then she empties them Into her bath again. Then she refills them, and so on. I'.laine also has a new carriage for her two rag dolls and then1 is a little covering nt one end of the carriage so that the dolls will not get sunstroke. sun-stroke. Buddy loves rhymes and pictures and stories. lie Is not old enough, to read to himself as yet. and when he can get no one to read to him he ( rocks the big rocking chair anil sings and tells stories to himself. He will sit for almost any length of time on the door looking at niis tures too. lie calls milk "num-nuni" and says "no, no. I no," before he does anything naughty. lie seems to think that if he scolds himself he ran then go and oe naughty 1 Lucy won the skipping race In I school and nunc second In the running run-ning race. She enjoys play -Ing tennis, al- alotnl to everyone. every-one. It Is like the last number, too, in which there was almost more news about children chil-dren In it than about Mother Nature's Na-ture's children. "But everyone was Interested in hearing that news." "Oh, yes," said the Gnomes, "we love to hear about the children. We like to have the (if k though evervone u r, . ,,. He Flocks the (Jig heals her at It. . ..... i , Rocking Chair. But It shows w hat n good sport she Is lo still like the game and want to play It. Word o. lines that charades are very popular In tin- lilsle-.lack-Marlan-Fri'ddy-Joe family, livery evening you would hear whispers If you lived at their house, and then you would hear them say : "Vou didn't hear what we said, did yon?" Anil, last Item of all, Natalie won n prize for arithmetic, which she has always before found hard to masler. |
