The Chinese Princess
Gallagher, Marie
304 THE COMMONWEAL July 28, 1926 are numbers in all our large cities in need of such help THE CHINESE...
...at the Chinese princess in awe...
...seemed to cause her such surprise, that Nathaniel burst into laughter...
...and he ized so well during her life, remains...
...needed...
...I can dance most beautifully...
...But the Chinese prinable for those who were neglected and in great distress...
...But the Chinese princess did not deign And, for myself, a surging, stinging pity That living yields to take any notice of either him or his laughter, and Only a sudden hatred of the city, only continued her solemn dancing...
...tions will continue to diffuse good-for, as Aristotle "I don't think you should be carrying a scarf," he said, "good is ever diffusive of itself...
...erations but for centuries, since her heart beat high And another day he said: "A princess, I think, for humanity and devoted itself to making life bear- should hold her head higher...
...The impression is growing that cancer represents one of the terminal stages "The scorn in her voice has withered the poor creaof existence, an insurrection in the body-cells against ture away," he whispered to himself, and he looked the vital control which has kept them in coordination...
...and with it the successful treatment of cancer, she spoke to him...
...princess, and he had fallen in love with her...
...304 THE COMMONWEAL July 28, 1926 are numbers in all our large cities in need of such help THE CHINESE PRINCESS as is afforded by Mother Alphonsa's homes...
...every reason to believe that she initiated one of those Every day he grew more and more fond of her, enduringly beneficent foundations which for genera- and every day he became a little more exacting...
...self, do you...
...City Night One day he became bolder than ever before, and Warm nights wake pity for imprisoned women he stood with his head tilted critically to one side...
...a green bowl beside her...
...In- terra-cotta eyes were gentle in her proud face...
...Her memory ventured to say one day...
...the beginning of the century...
...I'm sure I know how a princess should act," said Nathaniel, and his cheeks were very red...
...cess neither raised her head nor dropped her scarf...
...They are ATHANIEL MOLESKIN had seen a Chinese sadly...
...It is possible that this insurrection may be the result "Honorable Lord does well to deprive presumpof some specific irritation, but there is nothing to in- tuous young man of intelligence," she remarked to the dicate that we shall be able to check it for another goldfish...
...An English statement made last year seemed very Every day Nathaniel walked up to her and stood hopeful for a time, but has proved unfounded...
...The elfin flight of firefly and swallow All of her movements were so slow and queer, and Towards fairy-land...
...of course, may be found at any time, yet in spite of the most painstaking research during the past twenty- "Remove that creature, Honorable Lord," said her frail, haughty voice through the shop-window, and five years which at times seemed promising, we are Nathaniel hastened to obey...
...You should have given will indeed be held in benediction, not alone for gen- it to one of your ladies-in-waiting...
...It was her dream that the future would see other homes for NBy MARIE GALLAGHER these patients established in many places...
...But when he looked no nearer the heart of the problem than we were at around there was no one there but himself...
...of astonishment, and then she set it down, and raisA pity for the child who may not follow ing her elbows, curved her palms upward and looked Or understand inquiringly at the ceiling...
...generation at least...
...Who may not lie "It's a pity you hold yourself so stiffly," he remarked...
...But evitably, disappointment has followed these announce- the Chinese princess did not bother to think anything ments...
...The before her, and looked at her-and at last one day cause...
...On moss to watch the first bright star grow dim in "I once saw a Chinese girl dancing . . . " He paused A crowding sky ; as if dreaming of some incomparably lovely thing...
...I suppose one shouldn't be able to understand In the meantime, Mother Alphonsa's work, organ- a princess always," thought Nathaniel humbly...
...You don't think anyone can be as fine as yourJOHN HANLON...
...Who may not send a silver trout-line swooping And she lifted one foot and looked at it with an air O'er rowdy streams...
...For office hostages, desk-bound and stooping "Oh l" said the Chinese princess, stepping down Beneath dead dreams, from her pedestal...
...A need of fields...
...The London Bureau of Cancer Research an- at all about Nathaniel Moleskin...
...She stood on a tiny nounced the other day that practically nothing was mahogany pedestal, and once in a long while vouchbeing done throughout the world seeming to justify safed a comment on life to the goldfish that swam in the hope that the cause of cancer would be discovered...
...asked Nathaniel, mockingly...
...There seems walked away making a mystery of her words...
...Every now and then an announcement is made that Nathaniel thought he loved her because she was the cause of cancer has been discovered, and hopes the first princess he had ever seen, and because her arise that some treatment for it will be found...
Vol. 4 • July 1926 • No. 12
