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THE MOTHER GOOSE
WAX WORKS.
No. 7. The Fairy Coach.
By Charles Battell Loomis, Author of
“Yankee Enchantmeaits."
Copyright 19(11 by Charles Battcll Loomis.
The London newspapers all had long
accounts of how Robin had restored the
Mother Goose Wax Figures to life, and
how they were talcing a pleasure trip
under the guidance of the young lad.
and crowds followed them whenever they
went out to walk. This was only natural
because the giants were at least thirty
feet tall, and Fuse in Boots was hand
some enough to excite remark anywhere,
end he walked along so daintily in his
patent leathers that anyone could see at
half a glance that he catne of a very
good family of cats. I believe that his
great great great greatgrandfather on
his mother’s side was the cat that Dick
Whittington owned before he was Mayor
of London.
One day they were walking through
Drury Lane to their lodgings in Blooms
bury, and their way led through a very
dirty and forlorn little alley, in which
bedraggled children were trying to hove
THE COACH AND FOUR SWEPT INTO DRUIH' LANE.
a good time in spite of their dirt and
poverty.
Although Cinderella was dressed in the
clothes that she wore before the first
ball, she always attracted a good deal
of attention because she had such a
winsome expression on her face, and as
they were passing n green grocer's shop,
a pale faced girl about twelve years old,
tugged at Cinderella's sleeve and beckon
ed to her to com© into the store. The
rest passed on up the alley, but Cinder
ella, who was not at all timid, followed
the child into the shop.
"What do you want, my dear,” said
Cinderella, kindly to the girl. The girl
talked in the manner of the London poor,
and as it is as hard to spell it as it is
to read it after it Is spelled, I will not
do It but will translate it Into passable
English.
‘'You’re Cinderella, ain’t you?" said the
little girl.
"Yes. I am," said Cinderella. "Please
be quick, because the others did not see
me stop, and they won't know where I
am."
“Oh, but you can find them. Any police
man 'll tell you. I’ve never ridden in a real
carriage, and I want you to get your
fairy godmother to make a coach for us
out of that pumpkin that's in front of
the shop. And we have two big rats
caught this morning, and T think I'll find
some mice in the trap In the court yard."
“Why, my dear,” said Cinderella; "I’d
be glad to do It, but I haven’t called upon
my godmother In years. Not since that
ball. You know that folks say I married
the Prince, but 1 did not. That was all
a fairy story. I stayed doing kitchen
work for ray stepmother until I was turn
ed to wax with Mother Goose and the
rest, and It was not until Robin set us
free, that we were able to travel about,
I don't think that my godmother would
pay any attention to me, Now, let me
go.”
But the girl was very obstinate. “No,
no; I am sure that you can get her if
ym call, and if you knew how I long to
go a-rlding you'd do it right off.”
Cinderella thought a minute. It would
do no harm to call her godmother and
In the meantime some of the company
would have noticed that she was not with
them, and would come back to look for
her.
"Come, hurry up, there's a der,” said
the girl. “Here's a pumpkin outside. Make
some poetry and call her with it."
Cinderella laughed her silveriest and
said half in Joke:
"Dear, fairy, godmother please to ap
proach—
Give to this maiden a pumpkin made
coach.”
Then and there a little old woman ap
peared on the counter and resting her
hand on a big cheese, she drew a wand
from under her green cloak and said,
"Abra " but the girl Interrupted her
to say '
"Do it outside so that the neighbors
can see.”
Imagine interrupting a fairy! It‘s a
wonder the girl wan not turned to cheese
in a moment. But Cinderella’s godmoth
er was a very agreeable old lady, and she
stepped to the door and approached the
pumpkin Just as the rest of the company
came back looking for Cinderella. The
streets were crowded, for it was the time
of the closing of the shops, and thousands
of work people were on their way home.
Cinderella told Robin what was going to
happen, and tome one in the crowd heard
It and the news quickly spread.
The godmother approached the pumpkin
and touched It with her wand and—it
remained a vegetable still. The crowd
began to Jeer and the girl began to cry,
and sympathetic Cinderella wished that
•he had not done anything about it.
But Robin Taylor, observant American
that he was, loAked at the pumpkin dose
ly and said; "Why this isn't a pumpkin
al all. It's a squash."
"Thai aecounts for It," said the fairy
godmother, who was beginning to won
der If her power had left her. “I never
turned a squash into a carriage in my
life and 1 wouldn't know how. Who has
a pumpkin?"
"I have," said a green grocer, whose
was acroaa the alley. He dlaap
,
■' wl,h som wltat withered hut
. a i si pumpkin.
, The fairy godmother touched it with
her wand, and in a moment there stood
■ h gold coach with silver springs and plate
1 window frames were studded with dia
monds and the spokes were made of In
dian gold carved to represent sunbeams.
“It's liner than the Lord Mayor’s
coach,” shouted half a dozen voices. "It
beats anything I ever see,” sai4 an old
woman nearly a hundred years old, and
that settled it. for she had seen the cor
onation of George the IV and William IV
and Victoria.
The fairy now touched the rats and in
a second four magnificent bay horses with
flowing tails and nxanes stood in front of
the dingy shop. Oh. how their coats
shone and how proud they were!
Then, much to the disappointment of
Puss in Boots, who had been w'atching
the mice the fairy touched them, and
they were turned into footmen Just as
they were in the story of Cinderella.
But now a curious thing happened. The
poor girl who had wanted all this splen
dor was abashed when she saw such a
“beauty” coach-and-four, and such splen
didly attired footmen and driver, and she
said “That’s too fine for me. Just take
that little crippled girl that lives on the
comer our for a drive.”
Then it was the turn of the fairy to
do something more. She touched both
Cinderella and the girl and the mother
of the girl who had come out in time to
see the changes, and the three were as
hansomely dressed as If they had been
princesses. Then Cinderella said to the
other two: "We’ll all go a-riding.”
And the three stepped in and the foot
men shut the door and the crowd cheer
ed, and Puss in Boots sprang up behind
and they drove to the corner and beck
oned to the little cripple who was look
ing out of the window at them, and she
understood and came down painfully, and
Robin lifted her into the coach dressed
Just as she was and with the crowd cheer
ing and shouting the driver whipped up
the spirited horses and the coach-and
“—— —.
A LITTLE OLD WOMAN APPEARED
ON THE COUNTER.
four swept into Drury Lane and past Co
vent Garden—which Isn’t a garden at all,
and so down to Hyde Park, which is bet
ter than a garden, and there were at
least four happy people in the party.
This real use of magic in the London
of to-dey made Robin Taylor’s compan
ions very popular and after that the god
mother traveled with them.
But the coach was left In London for
ure among the poorer classes. There
were some fussy people who wrote to
The Times that it was a shame to take
people In dirty clothes out In such a mag
nificent coach, and that a plain wagon
and one horse would be far hotter, but
Cinderella who had given orders for Its
use. said that the gold coach and the
comfortable springs and the beautiful
horses were like a glimpse of teal fairy
land to the poor people, and as long as
it had been made for them it ough{ not
to bother anybody else. And sue was
quite right.
OLD QUAKER^
THERE'S MELLOWNESS TO T
On talc at all lint-clast placet
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A HOHTFOLIO OF WILD FLOWERS.
With Direction* n* to Mounting, Col
oring;. lotc.
No. 3. The Violet.
Copyright, 1901. by the 8. S. McClure Cos.
Of all the spring flowers none are so
well known as the violets. They can be
found growing almost everywhere, though
they thrive best In cool, shady places.
There are several kinds of violets; some
have yellow flowers, some white, but those
most often met with are purple or blue.
Some kinds have round leaves, other*
have arrow-shaped leaves, one kind has
leaves of the shape of a bird’s foot, with
five claws and Is, therefore, known as the
Bird's Foot Violet. Those In the picture
are the common purple or blue violets,
and, as you can see, their leaves are
heart-shaped, and notched along their
edges like the teeth of a saw. When
they first push up through the grass the
leaves are tightly rolled up and the
flower buds are hidden assy underneath
them. After a few warm days the leaves
unfold and the flowers open, but they do
not look up, but always hang their heads
a little shyly. They are of all shades
of blue and purple, and their petals are
marked with dark veins that lead like lit
tle paths for the bees to follow In order
to reach the golden yellow centers of the
flowers.
Commence by painting a light tint of
green over all the paper, except the flow
ers and the straight lines at the bottom
of the picture. Then, when 11 is dry, put
another tint of green, a little stronger,
over It all but the stems of the flowers.
When tt la dry ugaln pul another tint of
green over the leaves. Then paint the
petals of the flowers In different nha.lc*
of purple and blue; paint the centers
bright yellow. Finish by putting a tint of
buff or straw color over the straight lines
among the gras# blades toward the bottom
of the picture to represent the old, dried
grass of lasi year.
Below the picture and to the left you
will notice an outline of the Violet with
Ita different |>art numbered; and to the
rlgh' the proper color* to use are Indi
cated with corresponding numbers.
To prepare these flower picture* for *
port 1 0110, you should cut out the ploturs
-leaving ott lh soior schema below and
mount on a gray or white mat, leaving
a good wide margin.
A little daub of paste at each corner
will hold the picture In place. If the
entire back Is coated with paste the ten
dency Is to warp and draw up the mat,
and It won't lie flat In the portfolio.
—Lord Overton, the millionaire peer of
Glasgow, has conducted a Bible class of
c TI /'-XT H 1 green
1v IOLETj 2
I Hczr\± V 3 PURPLE on BLUE
// /-hrhr- 4-DARK green
/ P-Or l/.'D r 5 DUFF
D ... 6 PmqHT miow
about Kb young men in Glasgow for more
than thirty years, and as a preacher and
evangelist ho Is much In demand. He Is
especially interested in everything that
has lo do with the 1 well being of young
men, and among oter things he pays a
well-known Scotch minister *5,000 a year
to devote himself to the work of an evan
gelist. But he Is no "namby-pamby." He
is a keen fisherman, Is more than a fair
shot ani is not to be despised at golf.
THRONE OF THE EMPRESS OF CHINA
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.
The above interesting picture Is from
s photograph taken by s noted war cor
respondent In Pekin early last autumn.
It show* the wonderfully carved throne
•f tfi* Empress of Chins loos ted In tht
Forbidden City, and until last A"' .
never before viewed by a "foreign '
It*
The oceui Mints of the "de*ecr*tNl V
are two well known American °^ cer ’',
the operator of g moving ploturs