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Show If Paddy's tSLvef!i$ Fairy Tale y AARY GRAHAM BOWER COni.inl n !',:tlN MWm I'f.CH THE NEW CURTAINS The old curtains had really done very well. They had been In the room for over ten years, and every spring and every autumn they had been taken down and washed. j Now it doesn't wear a person out j to take baths. In fact it keeps a per- son strong and well. ' But It is a little hard on curtains. Twice a year the curtains felt fresh and pretty after their baths, but they felt a little older, and they knew their age would show when they lost their clean, fresh look and it was time for another bath. They had been, trimmed with pale green at one time, but the pale green had faded so that the curtains were entirely white now. , They were weary, and they felt badly bad-ly because they were in a room which was always called the green room and they weren't green at all. ; Often people would be shown the house for it was a very old and very beautiful house and they would be A Little Hard on Curtains. told that this room was the' green room. In the other rooms the curtains looked red, or blue, or whatever the room was called. So when people were In the green room they would quite often say: "Oh yes, there's a green rug." The rug felt a little badly they didn't notice no-tice him at once, for he was really green, though he, too, had faded a bit. But there was a. cover on the bed which had lots of green in It, and when they saw that they knew it was the green room. The curtains felt so badly, though, because they had at one time lent some green touches to the green room. They were tired of being hung np now. They felt so old, so crackling, so shabby. ' They longed to go into the patcn-work patcn-work trunk where the other old rags went. They would have a good time there, talking over old times with others just as shabby and just as old, if not a great, great deal older than they. They didn't want to be np in the bright room any more. Oh. they were nervous, when again ; they were taken down for the su-I su-I tumn cleaning. i And then, how happy they were j they were put in the old patch trunk, j And up at the windows, at the four windows of the green room went new ) and beautiful curtains curtains with ; touches of green trimming and dec-j dec-j oration curtains that just went with I the room, so every one said. They were complimented by every ! one. People said they "were in such good taste," that they "looked like ! the handsome room," and that "a ', beautiful room ll'iu this needed beau-I beau-I 1 1 f n 1 curtains." The new curtains were very happy I They were nice curtains. They had I felt all along that they were. ! But they had been appreciated, and i what a beautiful home this was 'for i them they couldn't have picked out j a nicer one if they had been allowed to go around from house to house I and choose for their curtain-selves. Altogether it was a success. The old curtains' were happy, the new I curtains were happy, the green room was happy and every one who saw the curtains admired them, while those who lived in the house kept finding excuses to go to the green room all the time. |