One truth discovered is immortal and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
Hazlitt.
THE HEROINE OF RADIUM
YOU would hardly think that a big, bare room, with rows of battered benches and shelves and tables littered with all sorts of queer-looking jars and bottles, could be a hiding-place for fairies. Yet Marie's father, who was one of the wise men of Warsaw, said they were always to be found there.
"Yes, little daughter," he said, "the fairies you may chance to meet with in the woods, peeping from behind trees and sleeping in flowers, are a tricksy, uncertain sort. The real fairies, who do things, are to be found in my dusty laboratory. They are the true wonder-workers, and there you may really catch them at work and learn some of their secrets."
"But, Father, wouldn't the fairies like it better if it wasn't quite so dusty there?" asked the child.
"No doubt of it," replied the professor.
"We need one fairy more to put us to rights."
At a time when most little girls are playing with dolls, Marie was playing "fairy" in the big classroom, dusting the tables and shelves, and washing the glass tubes and other things that her father used as he talked to his students. "I think we might see the fairies better if I make all these glasses clear and shiny," said Marie.