Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1910 — CHRISTMAS FAIRIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHRISTMAS FAIRIES

y r | K€?< Christmas comes, the fairies know. Chen all the wind is silver with tbelr hair. Blown through the drifting stiver of the snow. for when they wahe, while yet the early air Is filled with darh and stars of dawn are white, Chey know that something whispers everywhere— Something that Is not llhe the voice of night i Something that Is not llhe the voice of day. Something that Is llhe silence gad Uhc light Up with soft cries, llhe little winds at play Or supple flames that with slim beckoning fan by, the fairies mount and wind away. Some gracious Influence moves the day like spring. UKstful to have some part In the sweet sttr, Che fairies fashion gifts from everything. Cherefore, when first you wahe from ways that were Hll singing dreams, on every Christmas mom Che day Is blessed by some still wanderer. fo¥ some hind little spirit has outworn Your sleep by hissing light your closed eyes, Hnd of that hiss your first day dreams are born. -Zona Gale In New Yorh Man.