' A FAMOUS: L233}: . THE SLEEEPING BEAUTY STORY AS IT IS TOLD IN PERSIA. Goblins.'Witchcs, Fairies, Princes, and, 01 Course, the Right Prince “’ith the Beauty. “'aiting for the Waking Kiss Which Ho Gave Her. A Persian woman of culture thus re- lated the legend of the “Sleeping Beau. ty,” as an Old household servant was wont to tells it to the children: Once upon a time there was a King who wished to'appoint one of his three sons as his heir. He summoned his Grand Vizier into his presence so as to consult him on this important question. They decided to watch the princes for a" year and judge them according to each one’s. conduct. One day at the beginning of the year the three proposed to go out hunting. After some time the eldest, Prince Abdullah, shot-a lion, and, feel- ing tired, returned home; Prince Hou- sen, the second, shot a bear, and, as he was satisfied with his day’s hunting. returned to the palace. The younger. Prince Akbar, spied a gazelle and pur- sued it; he was soon lost“ sight of. His followers, who, after waiting a long time for their master and having looked everywhere for him, decided to return and tell his father the sad news. ThexPrince, meanwhile, was running as fast as he could after the. gazelle, till at last he arrived in front of a pal- ace with an iron gate, over which the gazelle leaped and disappeared. He could not follow it there; so, being hot, tired and thirsty, he threw himself on the grass to rest a little. He noticed three doves perched on the gate. They were really fairies who had assumed that shape. . “Well!” said one, “that Prince is do- I'ngavery foolish thing, lying down there; perhaps he does not know this is the goblin’s residence, and that every Sunday morning the goblin takes a Walk round his property and devours anybody he finds on it. He is certain to find that Prince just near the gate." “Well,” said the second dove, “he, can save his life very easily; he only has to go down that deep well, and when he gets to the bottom of it he will find himself in a dark room, where he will see an ugly old witch leaning over ‘ a kettle and half sitting on a chair. Without waking her he must take the piece of glass which is under her left foot and break it, for it is the goblin’s life; as sconas it is in pieces the gob‘ li'n will expire. He must then throw himself on the witch and kill her with his sword.” ' The Prince, acting on the advice he had heard, found the well and went down it by a circular path. but the lower he went the hotter it grew, till the poor. Prince began. to feel. giddy, Sick, andflfaint, though he kept on " bravely and never thought of turning back. At last he found himself in the room, took the piece of glass without waking the witch, broke it into a hun- 'dred pieces, killed the witch and climbed out of the well, and was surprised to find himself in a lovely garden, near another iron gate much bigger than the first, which he tried to open. As he . could not do so, he stretched himself under a tree, where he soon fell asleep. He awoke hearing the same doves speak- ing in the tree, on a branch just over his head. The third one was speaking: “If he wants to open this iron gate, he must try and do it with the point of his sword, and as soon as its doors fly open put his hand in his pocket and take out three gold coins, which he must throw into the mouth of the black serpent which will come out of the gate with its mouth open, ready to eat the Prince. If he can do this quickly, the serpent will die as soon as the money is in its mouth, and the" Prince will set free a lovely Princess, but he will have to look for her.” Rising, the Prince once more did as the doves had said; when his sword touched the gate the doors flew open and the horrible black head of an enor- mous serpent came out, showing its fangs. The Prince threw the money andthe reptile died. The Prince soon found himself in another and much prettier garden, through which he walked up to the beautiful palace he saw in front of him. In the handsomest room of this he found a rarely beautiful young lady asleep on a couch. He hesi- ' tatingly approached her to have abetter view of her face, and thought her so levely that he stooped over her and kissed her. She opened her eyes and was sur- prised to find a young man near her, and told him to go away as fast as he could. for this was the goblin’s castle, and that either the goblin, the witch (his mother) or the black serpent would eat him. Then he tbld her his adventures, and she told him hers. When she was a child she had been stolen from her father’s kingdom, and many princes and young men had lost their lives in trying to save her and take her away from the goblin’s castle. She thanked Prince Akbarvery courteousl . for having freed her. . After living a few days with the love- ly Princess, the Prince, finding he loved her much indeed, asked her to become his wife. She consented. They then mounted on horseback to go back to the Princesss father’s kingdom, but as the Princess was afraid of their not being able to find their way back to the gob- lin‘s castle, which was.theirs now, she loaded a horse with two bags full of lime, and cut a hole in each bag, so that atrail of lime lay all the way. They soon arrived at the kingdom of the Prince’s father. The King was very happy to see his son again, and also to see what a beautiful bride he had chosen. The Prince told his father about all the adventures he had had. The Prince now inhabits the goblin’s castle, where his father occasionally visits him. And if any of you little sahibs and khanoums (gentlemen and ladies) wish to go and see him, you only . have to tndthe goblin’s castle, for the Prince is my hospitable. andwlll make [on welcome.-Wcstminster Budge}.— ___——__._q——— «_.___. wohoEnFug HELEN KELLER.’ She Learns to Speak and “'1“ Strive for, a College Degree. Helen Keller,deprived when nineteen months old of the powers of speech. hearing and sight, is now, at the age of sixteen years,ente‘ring upon a course of studies‘which, she expects, will re- sult in her' receiving from Radcliffe College the annex of Harvard Univer- sity, the degree of Bachelor of Arts. She expects to recite in the same classes, to pass the same examinations, and to enter in the same competitions with young women who are in the pos~ session of every faculty. Much was printed several years ago . concerning this exceptionally gifted girl. She is developing into a woman of beauty and attainments. She is ful- filling all the promise of her youhger years, when Richard Watson Gilder and Edmund Clarence Stedman dedi- cated'poems to her, .and the scientific world was discussing her remarkable case, , Her father is an editor in Tuscumbia, Alabama. He is a descendant of the Falrfaxes, of Virginia, and her mother herited a taste for literature and the was a Massachusetts Adams. She in- study of languages. _ She lost three of her senses when an infant, and practically nothing was done for her education until she was taken in charge when seven years. old by Miss Sullivan, who has been her companion and teacher ever since. The child learned to understand lan- guage by feeling the'organs of speech of‘the person who addressed her. She learned to talk by imitating the mo- tions of the lips, larynx and teeth, which she observed in others. Her sense of touch became her eyes. She received impressions from the outside world by vibration, by touch, and by the spelling of words into her hand by means of the so—called manual alpha- bet. ‘ Miss Keller has in this way learned to speak English, French and German, with almost equal facility. .In a clear, well modulated voice she quotes Shakespeare, Schiller and Racine. _ . _ , ’\ K A, .__ , ‘ MISS KELLER AND mammalian. A Frenchman whom the girl met re- cently heard her speak and did not de- tect her inability to see and hear until she astonished him by putting her fingers to his lips to ascertain what he was saying, Her eyes are clear and bright. Her face is cheerful, and she has none of the hopeless look so com- mon to those who are blind. She has made some progress in math- ematics, although on account of her imaginative and poetic disposition she does not reach the average in the exact sciences. She has written some sketches which show an insight and observation which would hardly seem possible to one with such limitations. She has an exceptional gift of language and her productions are rhetorically perfect. . Here, for instance, is an extract from her diary, descriptive of her visit to the Statue of Liberty at Bedloe’s Isl- and: “We climbed up to the head, which will hold forty persons, and viewed the glorious scene, on which the bronze Liberty gazes day and night. And, 0, how wonderful it was! We did not wonder that the great French artist thought the place worthy to be the home of his grand ideal. The glorious bay lay calm and beautiful in the OC- tober sunshine, and the ships came and went like idle dreams; those sea- ward going slowly disappeared like clouds that change from gold to gray, and those h‘omeward coming sped more quickly, like birds that seek their mother’s nest. The city’s busy noise and turmoil were huslicd, and how beautiful she was, as she stood wrapped in October’s misty veil! I saw it all with the eyes of my soul—all its beauty and mystery, and in my heart I cried, 0 glorious Liberty, guard well this high road of the nations; look down in tender benediction from thy majestic eminence op this fair home of freedom until the sun shall sink to rise no more!” She will be accompanied during her college course by Miss Sullivan, who will interpret to her by a sort of tele- graph upon the palm pf the hand what the teachers are saying. She will sit in the class room, and were it not for the woman beside her constantly hold; ing her hand it would be impossible to distinguish her from the wide eyed and bright faced young women around her, She has attained such perfection in using the voice, which she has never herself heard, that her accent and em~ r phasis are entirely natural. The Steam Dragon Must Go: The doom of the steam locomotive is sealed. The iron horse with breath of vapor must soon give way to an iron horse that does not breathe.~ The elec- tric motor is surely going to take its place. This i the verdict of those who should know. When that result shall have been accomplished there .will be persons living who saw the be- ginning and the end of the age of steam transportation on land—an age of incalculably tremendous results. Will the age of electric power be of longer. duration in these days of gen- eral intellectual activity, and of the marvellous apllcation of - human, knowl- edge to mechanical ends? , , .-..,_ .l. ‘ Wh‘acuy, VWhacky, Whack! f ‘ Moderafo. ‘ I’m a lit file school - girl, and Ilove to play, got a lit - tle bro - ther, we all call him Jack, 02/016 US. With the boys at mar - bles 1 Copyright, New York Musical Echo Co., 1893. a .“ Written and Arranged by GEORGE. WARE. I could play all day, And if late to school we get, Whacky,whacky,whack! Too-ral, loo-ral, li - do! too-ral, loo-ral, lay! Theywhack you half a min-ute, you feel it half a. day; hate the hor-rid Board School, so does my bro-ther Jack; I tell you straight we get too much Whacky,whacky,whack! I ‘ Whacky, whacky, whack. 2 Little brother Jackey truant played one day, And his kind school-master to him thus did say: 7 “You must have a whacking on your little back.” Little Jackey got it—‘Vhacky, whacky, whack! Chorus—Tooral, looral, lido! &c. 3 And the School Board gove‘ness, she can use the cane. She won't take the trouble to save any pain; » First the cane she'll flourish, then she has a knack To select a nice place pn your little back, 'Chorus—Tooral, looral, lido! &c. 4 And my little sister, she's as good as gold, Gets her whacky, whacky, though but ten years old;- Vulgar and not-funny to select your back—— The nasty way she doesit—Whacky, 'whacky, whack Choms—Tooral, looral, lido! &c. e - A SHIRT WAlSTS AND OTHER THlNGS. _ Weighty Matteo-s that Demand Feminine — Consideration. L The fashion of.dress has improved decidedly since last summer, and in- most directions there is less exaggera- L tion and consequently ‘more actual grace and elegance. . Sleeves are. undoubtedly smallemand eve-n the larger ones show considerable , , length of tightly fitting arm. The Very thin texture made over a color having the thin material ruflied, ypufled or ; ‘estcd over the closely fitting silk lin- ing nearly to the shoulder, with ‘ a r: 11nd. very full puff just at the top. Q‘s-52 sleeves are altogether prettier than the large, loose, drooping sleeves or the huge stiff outstanding ones. The; the trimming that is being placed on the bottom of the skirts would indi- cate that "skirts soon will be less full, as it would be impossible to place frills and puffs around a very full, gored skirt. Some of the French gowns are trimmed half way up the skirts. a“ The pretty girlish sashes are again in full favor with all ‘bodices that termin— ate at the waist. One pretty way of finishing them is to have two short loops standing straight up the back and three or four longer ones lying down on the skirt, these held in place by the long sash ribbon that passes around the waist and ties in a loose knot between the loops, the ends fall. ing to the bottom of the gown. Black and white is more of a favorite com— bination this season than ever; it is becoming and pretty. Shepherd plaid is ~very much in vogue, and with it comes the quaint old-fashioned trim-. ming of the skirts, with rows and rows of the pencil velvet. Some of the lat— est skirts are trimmed in vandykes of three different widths. -. This season it seems the thing to have the skirts and blouses harmonize more, and the one serviceable black silk must be kept for the wash skirts or darker silk bodices. Light colored dressy bodices must have 'a lighter skirt than the black ones. A very eco- nomical skirt is of either checked or striped black and white _silk; this bar- monizes with either the black chiffon or lace, as well as with the light or bright ones. How pretty as well as indispensable the shirt waists are. Some of the stylish ones are made of brown Hol— land, piped with black, white or a’col« or, the detachable collars and cuffs be ing made of the piping material. One of the latest novelties is made of a coarse unbleached lawn, so open that it might be called canvas, This is em- broidered by hand in bold and artistic designs, generally, floral patterns. These shirts are very effective, and are particularly suited to boating or tennis. There are many cotton fabrics used for the shirt waists now, quite different from the ordinary—cambrlc or zephyr, grass lawn, both embroi- dered and plain, and silk zephyr. Many of the yokes are pointed both back and front, with stiff linen collar, leather .belt and smart tie, _The lawn shirt is full, has no yoke, and is worn with a ribbon belt and collar with crisp bows. , Some of the white linen shirts have a double frill in front, with the stiff col- lar and cufl’s. Arranged by Proxy. ‘ Marriage is a prosaic afiair in Gon- stantinople, being, in most cases, pure- ly a matter of business. When a man reaches a marriageable age,liis parents make a list of houses where ,eligible young women are to be found, and his mother calls at their residences, and inquires of each matron: “What can your daughter do?” Whereupon em- broideries are exhibited—among them always a rug—made by the daughter’s hands. These rugs are considered priceless heirlooms, and are never put upon the market. If thecaller ap- proves of these, she takes them home, and shows them' to her son. If she does not, she makes some excuse, and passes on. If, on ‘the other hand, the young man is not approved by the young lady’s parents, they advise the good woman to go elsewhere, as she might find perhaps a prettier girl at some other house. At the wedding neither bride nor bridegroom appears, the ceremony being conducted byprox- ies. .. ' . Kind‘to the Aged—“Isabel, why did you give your. grandmother a pale-pink umbrella on her birthday?” “I expect“. to carry it pretty often myself.”—_Chi- cagoRecord. : - _. -
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