Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-15 | Page 48 | Fables of Everyday Folks

r Fables F of Everyday Folks 1 By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright 1912 b by the Press Pren Publishing Publishes Co The New ew York World HER GOLD PLATED IDOL ONCE NCE upon a time there was a woman woman wom worn O an who had an IDEAL The Ideal took the form of a man That Is to to say she hc thought and dreamed about Just the kind of ot a a. man mn that would fit the ideal He was wag so 80 GODLIKE So she went forth Into the world with tho the ambition of or finding tho the KE- KE l of ot her ller hopes Now Nor ow the SEEKER usually finds He lie seemed to bo be the personification of her Ideal First ho llo looked the tho part How handsome he ho isi she thought Just the right color of ot eyes and hair He tho right kind of oC clothes and he had his finger nails naBs manicured often Ho lIo loved music and aUd adored books and when he smiled well smiled well she Just had to pinch herself herselt to know that sho she was not dreaming He was waR a paragon paragon para- para gon son of ot all tho the virtues virtuoso And there was none could MEASURE lEASURE UP to him So tho woman proceeded to place him on a a. high pedestal and WORSHIP him accordingly For or did not he tell her the most wonderful things that he had been a a. part of ot In the times BEFORE 1 I she eha he knew him How he ho harped on her being his I f REAL affinity whatever that Is 18 And AndI I didn't he impress upon her the tho tact fact that she he was the only only-only and that never r- r before and never again would he I feel toward anyone as he lie did toward her I You are so different ho he would say I h Sho h A. A believed all I f for she e believed e In n 0 u U to I lit fit i C her belief Everyday Every day he ho loomed up bigger and more snore golden and everything about him reflected tho the shining lustre No one ever lived that was just Juat like him Ho He had the deep deepest cst thoughts For hadn't he told her some of them In truth she sho had read of ot similar things In books but then he ho had such fuch a way a of or putting putting- things that made him so original so unusual so wonderful She saw many men in the world All AU had their faults EXCEPT her hor tul ful Ideal He was FAULTLESS All AU life lite stretched out GLOWINGLY GLY before her To bo be forever with this godlike man who was truly idealistic and had bad no attributes of a a. common Variety va Va- About this time somo some rumors floated to her hor ears of ot this that and the other called BO vice that he had of ot which she had known NOTHING Yet she did not BELIEVE them J One day quite unexpectedly how- how I 1 ever vcr she saw taW him do some things very much as might some sarno other othor man which are not of or the category of or tho the ideal Ho He was off ott guard and not doing doing- the Idealistic game In truth ho he had very much the habits of ot any other man although he had not enumerated them to her because ho was EXPECTED EXPECTED EX EX- to fit the Ideal Meal She oven heard him tell toll girls the SAME THINGS ho had told her also In that lort lofty original wa way Her Tier man pod fell teU from his pedestal mid and broke She Sho was disappointed Her Ideal doal was wag shattered She had expected TOO MUCH UCH Had she been content to grant rant him the shortcomings of ot man and tako take the blessings with them sho she ml might ht have been happ happy But she INSIST INSISTED D on his hie living up to her Ideal which ho did did did- when with her her- 1 MORAL WOMAN IAN 1 MAY A Y IDOLIZE AND IDEALIZE IDEAL IDEAL- IZE BUT A MANS MAN'S A MAN FOR A THAT AND D A THAT AND A THAT TIL