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Show Daddy's-JS?dEveiiig Daddy's-JS?dEveiiig Fairy Tale jyV&f GRAHAM DOWER. CO" tftHT IT VHTHN MlWtfU Uh.OH " I '- 1 -"" ' - ' IN MANY HOMES Peter Gnome put on hla Invisible robe which, as you know, la a costume cos-tume he haa. When he weara It be cannot be aeen by human eyes. After Peter Gnome had put on thla robe he said to the other gnomes: "I am going a-calllng today." They were all very much Interested, Interest-ed, for Peter Gnome had such a big calling Hat that no one knew where he might be going a-calllng next, aod It was alwaya such fun to hear. "Are you going calling on girls or boys, or both?" they asked. "Or are you going calling on grownups?" grown-ups?" they added. "Oh perhaps," suggested one gnome, "you're going to see aome animals or some of Mother Nature's children. "Do tell us, Peter Gnome." "I will," aald Peter Gnome. Then, aa Peter Gnome finished the laat touches upon hla costume he began: be-gan: "I'm going a-calllng on many people, and I'm going to many homes. I have been talking lately to the Fairy Wondroua Secrets, and she baa been doing up aorae aecreta for ua. I am going to take some of thoae around with me aa I go a-calllng. "I don't know how many will want packagea of aecreta. Some may not need to be told any aecreta. Some may know them without being told them by me. Ah yea, aome may already al-ready know the aecreta I have to take around." "Well, Peter Gnome," aald the other gnomes, "we shall let you go now, for the sooner you go the sooner will you be back. We are eager to hear what your aecreta are to be which you are to give to the people In these homea you are going to visit. "But we will not keep you by asking ask-ing questions. We see you are ready. Good-by, Peter Gnome. Good luck, and may you be back aoon I" "Good by," cried Peter Gnome aa he atarted off, carrying within hla invisible in-visible robe a big bundle In which were the packages of aecreta which had been wrapped up by the Fairy Wondrous Won-drous Secreta and those who worked with her. Teter Gnome had quite a way to go, but he did not mind. He was eager for the Journey as he liked traveling, and he wondered about the visits he would have. At Inst he arrived ar-rived at the first home he had planned to Visit. You see refer Gnome had once been hnrrylng over a city In his mnglc alr-ahlp alr-ahlp when he noticed all the hundreds and thousands of apartment houses, each of which held so many homes. "I'd like to go and see the people in all those homes," he said, "or at least as many of them aa I could. There are so many, many homes, and It does aeem so strange to think of all the people living In them. "Each apartment means a family oh, how many families there are! It doesn't seem as though I could believe there were that many unless I saw for myself." And so this visit of Peter Gnome's had been planned, and as he was planning plan-ning It he talked to the Fairy Wondrous Won-drous Secrets, and together they ar- 6ha Had Bean Doing Up Soma Secreta. ranged to have packages done up which would tell families the secrets of happiness, the delight ami the fun and the merriment and the games and the thoughtful little acta and all the nice things which could happen within with-in a funiily. Peter Gnome vlalted apartment home after apartment home thla day In the big city and where he heard laughter and aaw unselfisbness, and saw how much fun some knew how to have In ao many wonderful and counties little ways, he did not leave any packages of aecreta. For In these homea they understood auch secrets. But where there waa quarreling, where famlllee did not 8eem to be able to enjoy each other, where they were always thinking that happiness came from outside and from others, and that It was not worth while to . try to make each other happy, In those : homes Peter Gnome dropped packages which opened aa they fell, anil which Tiled the air with secrets of happiness. happi-ness. And that night when Peter Gnome reached home and all waited to bear J about bis visits lie said: ''Happy fam- j Hies have such a good time that It does seem such a pity that f.imlllc) should quarrel and should keep from praising each oilier and should not be affectionate and kind, for they miss ao much this way. But I think the secret packages are going to change many things. "Ah, yes, I'm glad I went a-call!n today." |