Mere man does not usually intrude on the altairs of "Woman's Page. 'But Hans Andersen belongs to bot'. sexes and every age alike, so that all may claim the right to say something when, as announced to-day sporations are on foot to celebrate shovel, matches, a fir tree, a tomcat, a goose, an old oak, and ga them a personality which "has stamped them for ever. And, at the risk of offending a inst the modern 8 canon which prescribes that art may do anything except make one feel the better for its contemplation, there was a vein of seriousness and allegory in all the best of his stories, Resides those mentioned in to-day"s "Woman's Page," one would put in special plea for "The Wild Swans" and Eliza weaving her coats of nettle to save her brothers, even gallows' foot; for the "Trai Companion" and the debt of love that he 30 grandly paid; and per-greatest of all, for "Karen and The moral of the story, according to her neighbours, is she made a grievous mistake in the ritual. She was to sleep over a dead cat, but went and slaughtered a cat and this was not stipulated in the bond. Naturally the murdered eat wanted to be revenged for losing its life and so gave the wrong Up to its enemy. They ave both now in the kingdom of Pluto and the further acts of the drama will be played out in a regi Beyond our ken but, so far, the cat has the best of the argumer
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