Daddu’s Bedtime
o-o
, HOW THUMBELISA
^[OrU"- flew far away.
Flew Up, Up High In ® ®
the Air.
[Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen.)
THE minute Jack and Evelyn finished their bread and jelly daddy began;
"There was once a sick swallow who was nursed back to joy by
Thumbelisa, a tiny girl. So when a stupid old mole wanted her tc
marry him along came her friend, the swallow, and invited her to fly
away on his back.
“ ‘Tie yourself on securely with your sash,’ he reminded Thumbelisa. ‘We
may go quite swiftly. We’ll fly away from your ugly old mole and his dark
cavern, far away over the mountains to the warm countries where the sun
shines with more splendor than it does In this cornfield. It is always summer
there, and there are heaps of flowers for you to pick. Come, little Thum
belisa, fly with me. Once you saved by life when I lay half dead in a dark
passageway, and now I will save you.’
“ ‘Oh, dear swallow,' cried Thumbelisa; ‘now 1 will go with you!'
“So she sat down on the swallow’s back with her tiny feet on its outspread
wing. To its strongest feather she tied one end of her sash and the other
around her own waist."
“Goody!" cried the children.
“Then her swallow flew up, up high in tlie air above the forests and lakes,
high up above the biggest mountains where the snow never melts.
“Thumbelisa shivered In the cold air, but then she crept under her swal
low's warm feathers. She only stuck out her small head to look nt the won
derful and beautiful sights that kept flashing below’ her.
“So nt last they readied the warm countries. The sun shone with a
wanner glow there. The skies were twice as high, and the most beautiful
green and blue grapes grew on all the hanks and hedgerows. Oranges and
lemons hung in the woods, which were fragrant with myrtle and sweet herbs,
and everywhere lovely children with dark, rich skins ran about happily, chas
ing big. gorgeously colored butterflies."
“More fairies!” said Jack.
“Still Tliumbelisa’s swallow flew on, and always the country grew more
and more beautiful. Under splendid green tre’-s on the shores of the blue sea
stood a dazzling white marble palace. It had been built hundreds of years ago,
and vines wreathed around its old pillars. At the head of these were countless
birds’ nesto, and Thumbelisa’s swallow had its home in one of them."
Then daddy stopped, and when the children clapped for him to please not
end the bedtime story he gave them two big good night hugs.
So Jack and Evelyn clapped him.
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TRENCH WORK
A military writer in the Paris
l’Intransigeant says that 300,00C
American workmen on the French
front would mean victory for the Al
lies and suggests that the United
States recruit such a number of Ne
groes from the south for this work
Commenting upon it the Omahe
World-Herald says:
“To take 300,000 Negroes out of
the south might prove a great dis
aster to the lines in France. They
are needed where they are and arc
doing just as patriotic work in rais
ing cotton and foodstuffs as any
troops in the lines facing Germany
The sort of work needed in France
could be done by Chinese and East
Indians without the loss that would
occur in taking labor from the United
States. Some Chinese have already
passed through Canada on their way
to do that work, and a million 01
two could be sent, if there were ships
to carry them, without any interfer
ence with the food production of thf
world. There are a good many East
Indians in France now and many
more could be obtained. Military
writers are not the best of econo
mists, as the proposal of this Paris'
military writer shows. There is r
shortage of labor all over the world
except in India and China and those
countries would be glad to furnish it
Asiatic labor might go a long way
in winning victory. Why not secure
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TWO MEN
Two men toiled side by side from sun
to sun
And both were poor;
Both sat with children, when the day
was done,
About their door.
One saw the beautiful in crimson
cloud
And shining moon;
The other with his head in sadness
bowed,
Made night of noon.
One loved each tree and flower and
singing bird
On mount or plain;
No music in the soul of one was
stirred
By leaf or rain.
One saw the good in every fellow
man,
And hoped the best;
The other marvelled at his Master’s
plan,
And doubt confessed.
One having God above and Heaven
below,
Was satisfied;
The other, discontented, lived in woe,
And hopeless died.
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