When Maude Adams looked out! over the footlights and asked' her Peter Pan audience, "Do you believe in fairies?" she probably never expected anything more than a declaration of faith, Were she to ask the same question now, the 1 tense might well be, "Yes, indeed. I know there are fain Tve soon their photographs."
Actual pictures of are said to have been taken by two girls in Yorkshire, England, and were brought recently to America by Gardner, Secretary of the English 'Theosophical Society, connexion with a series of lectures Which he delivered in various cities on The Coming of the Fairies' He also had a "complete theory of gnomes, sylphs and other etheric and astral? forms."
According to Mr. Gardner, it would appear that the fairies have 1 logical right to be associated with since he has a theory jes and other spirits are the agents who construct and colour shrubs and flowers.
1 pray I may forget you for while—As one forgets the singing of a birds As one forgets a fervent Spring that stirred One's heart into a blossom; as smile Leaning on quiet lips is drunk and Must keep you as men have kept]
the sea, Strong in their breasts; the ships]
that fall and flee Before their vision, triumphantly tossed?
Must I remember you as trees and]
hills, ing with strength ever behind)
my eyes?
Must' you surround me like the binding skies?
Must knowledge of you sway me till it Alls The earth with aching and the wind with fear?
You—who remembered me a casual If this is really proved to be the case, it may not be an_unmixed blessing for the sprites and_ elves. We may expect to hear. of their organizing labour unions, demanding shorter hours and better work: ing: conditions, and: perhaps going! lon strike altogether. On the hand, Titania may appoint] Joficiency engineers among the fairy folk, and: plants and flowers would than go-in for unprecedented qua
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