CINDERELLA 



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CINNAMON 



CINDERELLA, sindcrel'a, the beautiful, 

 mistreated heroine of a fairy tale that has been 

 the delight of children of almost every land. 

 The story of the ragged little girl who was 

 ridiculed by her proud stepmother and jealous 

 sisters as she sat amidst the ashes and cinders 

 in the chimney-corner, and who through a 

 fairy godmother finally married the prince of 

 the realm because she was the only maiden in 

 the land who could wear the wonderful glass 

 slipper, is a children's tale of absorbing inter- 

 est. Long before the Chris- 

 tian Era a version of the story 

 of Cinderella was known by 

 the Egyptians, and they wrote 

 it in their strange characters 

 for their children to read; it 



lower leaves have an ashy appearance; hence 

 the name, from the Latin word for ashes. 

 Although natives of South Africa, a number 

 of species are cultivated throughout the world 

 for garden purposes, and from these an almost 

 endless variety of blossoms of many different 

 colors have been produced. Purple, red, and 

 purple and white are the prevailing colors; 

 in early spring the dark-eyed, aster-like flow- 

 ers with velvety leaves are in park conserva- 

 tories. They are easily grown from seed and 

 make beautiful window-garden 

 plants. 



CINNABAR, sin' na bahr, 

 the most important mercury 

 ore. It is a very heavy mineral, 

 composed chiefly of mercury 



THREE EPISODES IN THE STORY OF CINDERELLA 



Cinderella in her corner is visited by the fairy godmother. At the prince's ball, from which she 

 escaped on the stroke of midnight, losing the wonderful slipper. After tireless search the prince 

 discovered that the slipper belonged to Cinderella, much to the dismay of her scheming sisters. 



was familiar also to the Greeks. It may be 

 found among the German folk-lore tales of the 

 sixteenth century, and in the delightful collec- 

 tions of fairy stories for which we are in- 

 debted to the Brothers Grimm. 



The various English versions are adapta- 

 tions of the narrative of Charles Perrault, a 

 famous French writer of fairy tales. He called 

 his story Cendrillon, and in it used the expres- 

 sion pantoufle en vair, meaning a fur slipper. 

 The early English translators mistook the term 

 en vair for en verre (of glass), and so the 

 glass slipper of Cinderella is really an erro- 

 neous feature of the story. However, it has 

 become so vital a part of this loved tale that 

 English readers will always believe that it was 

 a glass slipper through which the "cinder-girl" 

 became the bride of a prince. 



Any bookstore can furnish the story in full 

 at a cost of a few cents. 



CINERARIA, sin era' re ah, a family of pop- 

 ular greenhouse herbs or small shrubs whose 



and sulphur. Although usually found in a 

 granular, bright-red earthy form, it is some- 

 times obtained in crystals, and is abundant in 

 Spain, California and China. Artificial cinna- 

 bar, formed by purifying a mixture of sulphur 

 and mercury, is brighter in color than the true 

 cinnabar, and is used for paint under the name 

 vermilion. See MERCURY. 



CINNAMON, sin'namon, a delightfully-fra- 

 grant spice used in cookery and known since 

 Biblical times. It is the inner bark of the 

 under branches of a species of laurel, chiefly 

 found in Ceylon, but growing also in Mala- 

 bar and other parts of the East Indies. The 

 tree reaches a height of twenty or thirty feet, 

 has oval leaves, pale yellow flowers and 

 acorn-shaped fruit. The Ceylonese bark their 

 trees in April and November. In the process 

 of drying the bark turns to a soft light- 

 brown color and curls up into rolls or quills. 

 The smaller quills are placed in the larger ones 

 for shipping. Tasters assort them as to quality, 



