r
ladies, pink ones. An' Arthur wore a stovepipe hat an' Guinevere wore a
white dress, an' she had white feathers in her crown. An' Lancelot, he
was there, all getting married. Daddy, dear," she broke off to question,
"were you ever to Camelot?"

"Oh, yes, I was there," he answered, "but it was a great many years
ago."

"Did you find roses?" she asked, exhibiting her wilted treasures.

"I found your mother there, my dear."

"And then, what did you do then?"

"Well, then we were married and lived happily ever after."

"And then--?"

"There was you, and we lived happier ever after."

And Mary fell on sleep again in the shelter of her father's arm while the
stars came out and the glow of joyant Camelot lit all the southern sky.

GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS

Among the influences which, in America, promote harmony between alien
races, the public school plays a most important part. The children, the
teachers, the parents--whether of emigrant or native origin--the
relatives and friends in distant countries, are all brought more or less
under its amalgamating influences. In the schoolroom the child finds
friends and playmates belonging to races widely different from his own;
there Greek meets not only Greek, but Turk, American, Irish, German,
French, English, Italian and Hungarian, and representatives of every
other nation under the sun. The lion lying down with the lamb was
nothing to it, because the lamb, though its feelings are not enlarged
upon, must have been distinctly uncomfortable. But in the schoolroom
Jew and Gentile work and play together; and black and white learn love
and knowledge side by side.

And long after more formal instruction has faded with the passing of the
years a man of, perhaps, German origin will think kindly of the whole
irresponsible Irish race when he remembers little Bridget O'Connor, who
sat across the aisle in the old Cherry Street school, her quick temper
and her swift remorse.

Of course, all these nationalities are rarely encountered in one
district, but a teacher often finds herself responsible for fifty
children representing five or six of them. In the lower grades eight or
ten may be so lately arrived as to speak no English. The teacher
presiding over this polyglot community is often, herself, of foreign
birth, yet they get on very well together, are very fond of one another,
and very happy. The little foreigners, assisted by their more
well-informed comrades,