Show Those extravagant slippers slippers slippers slip slip- pers give the spinster quite a shock TO BE CONTINUED Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen styled the childrens children's poet was a celebrated DanIsh DanIsh Danish Dan Dan- ish writer born at Odense in 1805 and died at Copenhagen after a brief illness ill Ul ness August 4 4 1875 His last years yeara were we're by criticism and attended attended attended at at- tended by all the honor and love that should accompany genius combined with old age As the child of poor shiftless parents he had little instruction instruction tion and few associates but his dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic Instinct was developed by Fontaine Fontaine Fon Foe taine tame and the Arabian Nights and the visit of a theatrical company to his his' native city led him to seek his dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic fortune in Copenhagen where for four years he worked diligently but produced nothing of note In 1835 1815 he essayed the Fairy Tales by which he was to receive world wide tion The classic Tinderbox and Big Claus and Little Claus are also of this year A short time afterwards Only a Fiddler gave cave ave him a European reputation I |