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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929.

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

Your Children.

[By Olive Roberts Barton.]

There are so many lovely stories in the world, banded down through the centuries, why not tell the children about them,

The other day I saw two chil- dren picking violets and they came out on a tiny pond with a large patch of narcissus growing near

it.

The children wondered "what you called" the white flower. So of Course I had to speak up and air my skimpy language:

"The ancient Greeks had a habit of including flowers in their religion. Whether they believed

all their beautiful myths to be really true or not we don't know.. But it was a lovely custom.

"And one of their loveliest atories is about this little flower

"Narcissus was the handsome young son of the River God, with whom Echo, a beautiful nymph of the mountains, fell in love.

"But just like a lot of good looking chaps nowadays, Narcissus; liked to be run after. And he trented Echo' dreadfully--would not look at her at all.

"Now Echo was a favourite of let me ace one of the gods or goddesses, Hera or Nemesis, I think it was, who grew indignant. over the whole affair, particularly when at last, warn out with love, Echo pined away until nothing was left but her voice.

"So what did Nemesis do, yes, It was Nemesis, daughter of the God of Night-what did she do but make Narcissus drink at a magic fountain which caused him' to fall in love with his own beauti- ful image in the water.

"Narcissus thought his image to be a beautiful but unattainable water nymph. At last he, too, pined away and died, and this! lovely flower grew up instantly at the place."

"Do you know any other stories about flowere?" asked one of the girls gazing thoughtfully at the white blossoms.

I didn't. But I told her I was

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