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"Old Faery Tales Made New" x . w..sww'; By Nell Brinkley
r Copyright. 1913, Amrrlcnn-Journal-Hxamlncr
Do you 'member that old Hana
Andersen tale and the pictures
that always goes with It? A Prln-
fcess ringed about by the outspread
skirts of her pretty maids, while
she bends her royal Hps to the
herder of her father's swine?
Bo you remember Its simple be
ginning? A heart-story In a tiny
sentence that might well make any
modern young chap who Is one of
tho nlght-and-momlng tide Qf work
ers, on Nassau street or at the Grand
Central smite himself on the chest
and say, "That's me!"
Here It Is: "THERE"VA9 A POOR
PRINCE WHOSE KINGDOM WAS
QtfJTE SMALL, BUT STILL IT WAS
LARGE ENOUGH TO MARRY UPON
AND THAT IS WHAT HE WANTEJD
TO'DO!"
"There was a poor Prince"
ah-h-h. But tho Princess preferred a
swineherd.
In the faery-tale which Is also
the.' plainest facts tho Prince was
poor, but he had a roso to offer the
Prlncesp. and a nightingale . Now
the Princess was an angel flower
face gold heart but by some strange
twlBt. In her mind (any one but ho
who loved , her would have called It
"narrow-mean hearted"), she pouted
when he laid the roso and the night
ingale at her slipper-toes and wished
It was-a "pussy-cat!" Sho would have
none of the rose and tho nightingale
and with" 'tier baxfk on the Prince and
J "pussy-cat.", thoughts In her head, her
I eyes fell on the swineherd shock-headed
unlovely!' But, In .his hands he held two
toys. And the Princess coveted them
with a1( her lieartt
So she sold her kisses and her heart
to, the swineherd in a .trade for a brace
of toys!
And tho poor prince clutched his heart
and said, "You would not have an honest
prince you ' did not valuo the; rose and
tho nightingale; but for a ' plaything' you
kissed tho swineherd and give him your
heart!"
V. So many a princess In heart and soul
gives herself to,a swineherd for a hand-rul'of.-toys'Xn.'bag
ofigoia.ndthat trifle ,
, 'imposition"), while a prlhce-amone-men
' .pockets his offered-and-scorned gems
"j!e rose of his heart and the harmony
if ' a perfect love and takes the trail
afone! NKIjIj BRINKLEY.
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Their Work i Sends Many Men
s to Jail
By nonoTHV nix.
Not long ago I said In this column that
vjltfthought that tho gentleman who Is en
'.titled to receive the medal for the mean
man was the man whoso attentions
were without In
tentions. I mean
'.'tlft) man who Just
'tljt. amuse himself
Slid to gratify his
Vanity deliberately
"tflns a girl's af
jfctlon, monopol
'lies her society,
find keeps her from,
'marrying some
,oher man, al
though he never
has the slightest
Intention of mar
Tying lier himself.
. A man, who
agrees with my es
timate b th'e me'an
fat man, asks me
whom I consider
ihe meanest girl In the world.
ulf I were called upon to hand out the
tjnpdals for pure, unadulterated meanness
f, should bestow the decoration on tho
jglrl who Is a grafter, the girl who Is a
hlnter, the girl who Is a sneakthlef at
Heart, but who Is too cowardly to do her
k own pocket picking and take' the rl?k of
it, but makes some man do' It for his
fovo of her.
There are many bad and wicked women,
-mrny women who ruin the lives of men
through their eVll Influence-, ,6ut there Is
"not one who Is worse, or who does moro
harm than the grafting girl. She occu
pies a, fine place In society, and consid
ers herself a model of virtue, and yet
there U many a bed rabbled woman of the
street who tins a kinder and nobler heart
llian she, and many a woman thief serv
Jig her term In prison who Is more
honest.
The grl grafter is youne. She Is pretty.
.She looks -soft and "tender, but a marble
statue has pot less feeling, nor less sym
pathy. She Is determined to have things,
and she does not care how she gets them,
ncr what suffering the getting of them
-entails on other people.
Her first victim Is her father. You see
him often. A shabby, weary, worn man,
-with bent shoulders, who tolls far beyond
his strength to supply his grafting daugh
ter with finery- He Is being killed
bv Inches to buy her silks and satins.
d send her to places of amusement, but
no pity 'or him ever stirs ljcr stony heart.
San would sell nis very Doay and sou)
for thirty pieces of silver or thirty cents
If she thought It a good bargain, and
th.' most she could get out of him.
But the grafting girl Is only trying her
'rrentlee hand on father. She gets In her
n eat and perfect work when she Is grown
and When she can uie all of the charms
af n(r womanhood to decoy unwary
ths Into her parlor and rob them.
ure. the grafting girl is always
,ie ;ookou( forj.Fomo rleh man to
- y but 11 the meantim, white she Is
,! t money bsgs to some
.- ; l- l if Hot HMaM small arnet
!..(- ,fi? u - rrU, not hikkper on
.a . i' -alaiy. Poo iiil m ncdj
J,. ,. . i I ..i !' it vU
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So many a Princ&ss'gives
Yearly,
She can't talk two minutes with a man
without descanting on how she loves the
theater and longs to see some particular
play, and how she dotes bn sitting In a
box, until she backs him up Into a cor
ner where he has to have superhuman
courage' to refrain from asking her to gp
with him to see the play that .sho has
determined ho shall tako her to. And
If he does tako her sho forces him to
take her In a taxi, and ho can no more
get her by- a restaurant without stopping
for supper thari, he could'Chanpe tne coior
of his har. . ' ' i
Vhn film has a birthday, or Christ
ian, mil around, she holds up every man
she knows and forces him to send her the
expensive presents she wants, ana.tnai
sho has already picked out for him to
give her. '
And she's Sb subtle and Insidious In her
way that the men who nave -
mulcted never know how it happens mat
ihow arc alwnv sending her candy and
Jewelry and silk stockings, and taking
her to expensive places or amusement.
But sho knows. She Is perfectly aware
them by hints and ca
jolery, and playing one man off against
another, and telling Bob how perfectly
dear and sweet It was of .aom to buo
her that sliver mesh bag, until Bob fee Is
that he will be a piker and a tightwad If
he doesn't come across
carved silver vanity case
with ft hand-
tv." r-filntr clrl is the meanest girl In
tho world, and here's ono of he meanent
stories of her meanness,, and It's a truo
one, for I personally knew all the- people
concerned In It.
As fine a young fellow as God ever
m.. foil in love with a grafting girl.
Who was as beautiful of body as she was
hideous of soul. The boy was poor, be
cause he was willing to supply her with
theater tlokcts, although he had to half
starve himself t.i do It. One day the
iom -w.r walking ur the street ana
stopped In at a Jeweler's to get the boy's
silver watcn mat nan ueen icyim.--.
While thw were waiting for It, the girl
spied a diamond bracelet that was worth
tl.000 In the case. She asked to see It,
tried It on her white round arm, and then,
turning to the boy she asked, wfth aj
languishing gaze into his eyes: '
"Would you give this to me If I asked
you for It?" "Oh, of course," ho laughed.
"Well, I do ask for It. Thank you o
much." The boy tried to Joke It off, hut
the grafter held on to the bracelet. Tho
Jeweler who knew and loved the boy, at
tempted to take It away from her, but
ha wnnld not surrender the bauble, and
In the end she got the trinket. With a
face liko death and a hand thii shook,
the boy wrote out a check for fhe price
of It for the money that he did not
have and that he stole -that nighty from
his employer. ;
His family paid the money, the matter
was hushed up. but it killed his mother,
and sent him out Into tho world a de
uUw. who trlell to drown the mempry
of 'hiv shame In drink. ArjdYthegirl
(srafttr wow her diamond-jraIet with
jmvdr a pang of renjwrsfc'jfor nil-the
1 1 avert ttti it i-fct-
t I Uv hr' ...! and k.i Kii UW
herself tb a swineherd for a
and takes the trail aldne."
(The little
iln Memory 's. Mansion arot wondcrfuf, rooms; v
!, And1! winder about them at 'will;
And I -pause at tho casements,, where boxes
blooms
Are sending sweet Bcents o'er the sill.
I lean from a window that looks on a lawn,
Prpm: aturrot that looks on the
But I draw, down-tho shade, when I see.' Ih some
glade ,
A stono standing guard by a grave. v,s j, ?
, , - , !;....
To Memory's attic 1 climbed ono day,
When tho roof was resounding with rain, ,
And there, among relibiJ tong.Jilddon away,' , tvv
. . I rummaged wJliijieartach';nnd pai'n.V '
$ A hripV long surrorldorcd and covered with dust, '
A pastime, outgrown and forgot, "
And a- fragment of love, all corroded with rust,
Were lying heaped up In ono spot. t
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Easter Can't
cause It is
If It Were Not, It Might Be
System of
By GARIIKTT I HKltVlBS.
The great Christian festival of Easter,
marking' tho anniversary of the 'resur
rection of Christ, falls this year within
one day of Its earliest possible date. It
comes on Sunday. March 23. Iist year
It fell on Sunday,
April 7. Some yearn
It occurs several
weeks later still.
All other anni
versaries except
Kaster, and the
holy days asso
ciated with It. fall
on a fixed day of
each year, and peo
ple who are not
familiar with what
Is called the ec
clesiastical calen
dar are often
greatly puzzled to
account for the wandering of this great
festival, whose extreme dates may he a
much aH five weeka apart. A late Caster
has mors flowers and more sunshine; an
early one. like that of the present year,
sometimes feels the last chill of the de
parted winter.
The primary reason for the variable
date of Kaster is the fact that It Is
the only gTeat festival In Christian coun
tries that depends directly upon the
monthly motion or tho moon. At the
same time, It Is. affeoted by the yearly
Vnotlon of the sun, since Its date Is
governed by the vernal equinox; which
Is the point in the year when the sun
crosses the equator from tho southern
Into the northern hemisphere;
- Jluttthe year and tho month are not
commensurable lengths of time tliut U
fo" say thelB ff not un even nu miter iif
lunar months In a year. A lunar month
Is ri'it tin- ume an a lalfinlur month, hut
it i : ti nt Id f fnin one fn'l
., ..in t tn n I ' I li '-s, on Hi- i'
Handful of toys (a bag-of gold
story by Miss Brinkloy that
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MEMORY'S MANSION
Cdprlght, Wii'Vy the Star Company.
Uy KLL.V WIIKUnUK WILfJOX.
And there, on the fl'dor of tho garrot, was tossed
," A frlondshlp "too fragile jp last;
of With pieces of dearly bought pleasures that cost
Vam fortunes of pain in the past.
A fabric of passion, once vivid and bright
As the breust of a robin In Spring,
Was spread out before mo a terrible sight
wave.,
'A moth-oaton,
1 Then down tho steep stairway I hurriedly wont,
And far into chambers below. ,
But the mansion seemed filled with tho old ntllc'
scent
Come on a Fixed Date Be
Governed by
Placed, Like Christmas, on a
Determining Its Date Made 400
age about twenty-nine days, ten hours,
forty-one minutes. A year, which is
measured by the apparent motion of the
sun, Is on tho average SffiU days. Now
this cannot bo divided by the period of a
lunar month without a remainder. In
consequence, a full moon may occur at
any time In the course of an ordinary
month.
But the rule for finding thp date of
Kaster Is that it must fall upon the Sun
day Immediately following the first full
moon, which occurs on or after March
21, which Is the regular date of the
equinox
Last year the first full moon following
the equinox happened on April 1, which
was a Monday. The next following. Hun-
day, April 7 was- then according to thp
rule, Kaster day. This year the full
moon of the equinox, or the paschal
moon as It Is called in the church calen
dar, falls on March 22, which Is a Satur
day, and tha next day, tho twenty-third,
being Sunday, becomes Kaster day.
Inasmuch as Christmas day, which Is
celebrated as the anniversary of tho
birth of Christ, comes at a fixed date
every year, December 55, It would appear
much simpler to keep Kaster also as near
a fixed date as possible. It could not be
absolutely fixed because of the settled
custom of celebrating it on a Sunday,
but, as the astronomer Clavlus pointed
oyt centuries ago, a reasonable degree of
regularity could be Introduced by mak
Ing Easter the first Sunday aftrr the
equinox without regard to the phase of
the moon. If that rule were adopted the
date of Kaster would still be a movable
one, but Its wanderings would be kept
wlthjn a week of a fixed date.
The existing system of determining the
dae of Kaster Is bated upon a discovery
made more than 400 years bofore Christ
bv the Greek astronomer Meton. He found
that 315 lunar mnhths are almost. ejvtcjly
tual in total length to nineteen eais of
i
and that trifle 'position') while
accompanies this picture is printed in the first column of this
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f
rag of a thing.
Wherever my footsteps would go.
Though,) Membry'fl Houso I still wander full oft,.
No more to tho garret I climb,
And I leave all the rubbish heaped thoro In the'
loft
To .tfie.liands of the HouBekeopor. Tlmo.
the Moon
Certain Date of Each Year-
Years B, 0.
36514 days each, There Is a difference of
only abput two hours In the course, of
the nineteen years. This period Is called
the mctonla cycle, and Its division Into
years gives rise to tho "golden numbers,"
which Indicate the place of any year In
the cycle. At the beginning of tho cycle.
Which, as used In the ecclesiastical cal
endar Is reckoned from January 1, of tlm
year 1. II. C, u. new moon happened to fnll
on January first. Kvery nineteen years
since then there has been a new moon at
the beginning of January, but during the
Intermediate years of the cycle tho first,
new moon of the year ocours at different
dates In January, which are always the
same for years occupying the same place
In the cycle. This place Is called the
golden number, and by Its aid, through a
somewhat complicated system of compu
tation, the date of tho paschal moon can
be calculated any number of years In ad
vance.
The golden number of any year can be
found by adding 1 to the number repra
sentlng the year in ordinary notatloi,
and then dividing the sum by 19, the re
mainder being tho golden number for
that year. For Instance, ad 1 to 1913, di
vide by 19, and the quotient Is 100, with
Jt remainder, and this remainder Is the
golden number of the year 1913, It etiow
thatilU Is the fourteenth year In a
metonlo cycle, and trt five years later
there will be a new moon on January 1
The dato of the first full moon of th
year being known. It is easy to calculate
the dates of all tho other new and full
moons that follow. The first new moon of
this year occurred on January 7,
If It, were not for the almanacs every
body would have to make all these cal
culations, and many others that we have
not mentioned, for himself In order ' to
find out the date of Kaster. and It Is saf.
to sajr that. In that cat, it would In
still more 'movuble ' than' It actually Is
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a Prince-among-men pockets his
The Rights of Parents
Hy UKATHIOB FAIRFAX.
The great majority of parents may b?
divided Into two classes: Those ruin
ously Indulgent and those who never re
member the days of their youth.
Which means they nro selfish atid' tyr
annical, and that their children grow Up
knowing both oppression and suppres
sion. Tho parents have their rights. The
rights to quiet hours, undisturbed even
ings and occasional possession of the
"best room." Che ohlla nas Its right,
Tho right to dance and sing nnd be sur
rounded by Its kind; the right to a home
as that word Is Interpreted by youth.
Theso rights Invariably clash, and In
stead of arbitrating tho more modern
parents go to the wall. They become a
the end of their days a sort of parental
doormat on which Is printed tho word
"Welcome" for all the gay, noisy com
panions of their children, but which is
turned with the blank side up when their
own friends appear, .Naturally they can
not welcome their own friends for the
reason that the children occupy the par
lor, overflow Into the dining room and
drive their parents 'to their rooms,
When the parents are less modern tho
result W this clashing of rights Is even
more disastrous; for youth la robbed Of
It Joys, and the girls and boys arc un
naturally subdued quiet, troubled little
men and women knowing a mirth thot is
no more spontaneous than the mechan
ical laugh of a mechanical doll.
I have a letter from a girl whose par
ents are plainly not modern. Indeed, It
would seem ns If they had drifted down
from tho sixteenth century without the
progress of time having made a changu
In them, and with their hearts as wrink
led as an apple that the winds havo for
gotten, season after season, to knock
from the tree.
Blin says she is IS years old; her sister
is 23 years old. Hhe makes a good sal
ary; so does her sister. Her parents are
In comfortable circumstances, yet they
havo no home where they can Invite
company, that which should be tl parlor
being given over to the transaction of the
father's busluos affairs.
"If It wero necessary," writes the girt
"I would not complain; but my father
doesn't need tho money, and wo are
growing up and want to have company,
as nil girls do, and he will not let us
havo n room where we can see them."
Here Is a clashing of rights that will
drive these girls to the streets to meet
the young men they are forbidden to ask
to their homes. They want the right of
youth the supreme right of youth and
that ts to love anil to be loved, nnd to
court a ml to be courted, and to marry.
No man, If he Is worth having, will ask
a girl ho-has passed on the street several
times to marry him. He wants to know
her better. Bho has the right to demand
a better acquaintance with him, and the
only safe place In the world for this
acquaintance to develop Into love Is In
the girl's own parlor.
Dented the right to have him thcro the
girl grows willful nnd love-making oil
public steps and In the dark corners of
public parks results. Don't blame tho
girl!
It In this clashing of rights there were
a happy medium, parents would find
greater enjoyment In their children, and
children would learn a consideration for
parents which many never know.
For the sake of the children parents
bhould not permit themselves to be door
mats. For the sake of the children
fatherdhood and motherhood should not
be symbolized by the rod.
And It is for the sake of the chll(lrn
that ee,- om on earth wants to do his
bett today.
offered-and-scorned gems
page.)
Charleston Evacuation
My RKV. THOMAS M. GKKGORY.
It was forty-eight years ago February
18, 1865 that tho confederates evacuated
Charleston, 8 C the chief clt of tho
Palmetto state, the fountaln-hcad of the
doctrine out of which the war grew, and
from tho harbor of
which was fired
the first gun of the
mighty - contest.
On April 14. 1861,
tho southern flag
was spread to the
breeze above Fort
Sumter, and there
that flag remained
until February 18,
iS05, when It was
hauled down by the
hands of the men
who had raised It
four years before,
Charleston was never taken.. From the
beginning to the end of tho groat struggle
It remained In the hands of those who,
on that famous December 20, 18C0, voted
the Palmetto state out of the' union.
By all thoso who were unfrlsndly to
the Idea of secession the South Carolina
town was the most cordially hated place
In the confederacy. It was hated by the
northerners as heartily as Boston was
by the southerners. For years It had
stood for states' rights. It was tha chief
city of the state in which Calhoim hai
lived Calhoun, tho unanswered and un
answerable champion of .the "reser el
rights," the Titan before whose logic even
Webster had quailed like Apollyon De
fore the flaming sword of Christian.
Early In 1863, therefore, It was decreed
by the federal government that Charles
ton should full, and In Anry pf'that yar
Admiral Dupont waji sent with nine. Iron
clads to capttjro the plaoe. Tha attempt
was a disastrous failure.
Probably there was not throughout 't.ie
entire war such masterful gunnery as
"was displayed by tho confederates on
April 7, WO. Kuropean. artillerists havo
declared 'that nowhere In the long story
of war can there bo found the account
of anything finer than the work that Wan
done by the artillerists in Charleston
harbor on that day.
The following July (1863) the forts In
ICharleston harbor were subjected to a
combined land and naval attack, the re
sult of which, as In the former Instance,
was a failure. The fleet, at a safe dis
tance, rained shot and shell upon Fort
Humter, while the land forces, under
General Gllmore, landing on Morris' Is
land, attacked Fort Wagner.
The assault was delivered with .the
Jjplrlt and determination that usually
mark tho American soldier .when In ac
tion, and was repulsed with fearful
slaughter. Again the blue lines surged
up against the wall of the fort, only to
meet with a still more fearful decimation.
Ollmoro.theu laid siege to the battery,
approaching It gradually by sap and mine.
I and on tho morning of the day on which
the third assault was to have been de
livered tho fort was evacuated by the
confederates.
And then, for eighteen long, weary
months, from battery and wave, from
cannon and mortar, a rain of shot find
shell fell upon Charleston. But In the
midst of tho smoking ruins, the desti
tution and misery, the city held; out
against surrender. By and by the new
came that Sherman, with his big army,
was coming down- from Columbia and the
confederate garrisons. In tha harbor and
city slipped out to avoid capture by Kher-man-
The next day Oilman hauled Oowa
the flag that had been flying for fpur
years over Sumter and entered the eH'a
cuftted town. A month and -a half later
lame Appomattox,