Once a little star baby was very, very sad. She didn't
feel at all well, and he didn't know what was the matter with her. So she
cried and cried, until her mother, who had a great deal of work to do, sailed
away from her. "You are throwing out darkness and it will spoil my work" she
said before she left. "Learn your lesson and I will return to you."
So the little star baby thought and thought. "I wonder what she
meant" she said. But she moped, and moped, and never thought to ask anyone
what was wrong with. Of course, she felt worse after the moping. The little
star babies that were nearest her seemed to turn their faces away. She was
dreadfully lonesome.
After feeling that way for a long time she decided that she would
ask the other stars to show her how to be happy. She called out to a great
fellow way up in the sky, and asked him his name and how to be happy.
"My name is Jupiter," shouted the big fellow. "I give health,
happiness, and plenty to those who will let me shine into their hearts."
"I wonder how he manages it," she mused. Then she called to
another.
"My name is Saturn," he said. "When people love me I make them
steadfast and true if they do not develop these qualities they grow cold and
unhappy."
"I wonder what he means," thought the little star baby, and she
called loudly to the lordly Mars:
"What do you do to shine so brightly?''
"I teach people to do things," answered Mars. "When they do not
heed me they grow listless."
"And what do you do?" cried the little star to Mercury.
"I teach people to think," answered Mercury. "But for me they
would have chaotic minds."
"What do you do?" she inquired of Venus. "I teach people to
love," answered Venus. "Were it not for me they would lose their way and
be lost in selfishness."
Just then the great Moon sailed by. "What do you do?" asked the
little star.
"I give the people their bodies so that they may learn to find
their souls," said the Moon. "Have you found yours yet?" Then she sailed
away in the most majestic manner.
"Who are you?" asked the little star baby of Uranus.
"I am unselfishness," answered the star. "Those who find me,
find themselves."
"And what is your name, and what do you do?" the star baby
asked of Neptune.
"I am Divine Love," replied Neptune. "Those who find me find
the pearl of great price."
"They all do such a great work!" said the small star. She bowed
her head in a dejected manner. And this as I told you made her much
worse—she almost quit shining.
Just then the great Sun peeped its head above the horizon. Then
the star baby called out with her last flicker of hope. "Oh, Sun, tell me what
I can do?"
Then the great Sun bellowed out: "Shine, little star, shine, or
you will die!"
So the little star drew a deep breath and shone. She made
such a great light that the Sun threw her a kiss, Jupiter bowed to her, and
Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Mercury waved their hands to her. Also, Uranus and
Neptune seemed to come right into her heart. Wee little star baby had found
her work at last; and she grew so much that when Mother came again she was
just as big and busy as Mother.
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