Show r r Fables F 0 of t Y Everyday F Folks c- c 1 By Sophie Irene Loeb PL PLENTY NTY MEANS PEACE E l LD AESOP records Once upon a n O. O time timo a town mouse came camo to visit visa t cousin ln In tho time countr country The Th e K- K cousin was rough and read ready but h ho o I i l is A 1 l Lown ulouse use welcome Beans Bean and bacon ch cheese ese and bread were t all he ho offered them freely treel hG he had but and n l the they ate ato In fn peace The town F 1 me rather ather turned up his hh nose noso at atI v f I l i l said I cannot unI understand un- un I- I Ida da re land cousin how bow you OU can put up with such I Ioor food as this title Come with 4 4 HU wm v you suit oU how how to live Jive so lo O sooner s than titan done Tho The two Pi mice set of off for the town and arrived at atthe i late lato at R the town mouses mouse's re residence night eight You will want ant some ments after our long journey said the 3 1 1 town mouse airily airily- and nd took his trl friend t Ho to tho the grand rand dining room There was Wn tho the remains of at a tine flue feast and the two o mice wore ore eating up Jellies and cakes and all 11 that was nice Suddenly thc they growling and ami barl barking Oh it is only the doss or of the house assured the thc town mouse Only Only muttered the tho country countr mouse I I do not like that mu- mu Ie at nt m my dinner Just then In came camo two huge mastiffs and the mice had to camper scamper for or their lives From all of or which Aesop draws this moral Better Delter beans henns an and bacon in n reaco than cakes calces and ale alo In fear fr Once upon a time there was a couple Who lived lI in the country countr They were not poor and they were not rich The had a a. nice little business Tho The wife had a n. nice little home home When the they could afford it Mary ar bought a 0 v net dress tress and John had a n. anew new MW suit stilt Of Ot course this did not happen happen hap- hap pen pen very often elicit but the they were CO COTE CON CON- TEXT TENT TE T Mary did lid her own o work and da day found her tho end of or a well spent and Joyful when John came camo home J X m business Every cry year ear John saved Sl a little little a against the the rainy day and In the time meantime tI mo found enough h surplus for fOI a little vacation vacation vaca vaca- tion tion or pleasure now mint and then which both I ENJOYED and which t oth looked I back lc upon lor or r many ninny days das K One da day some ome distant relatives a a. city couple camo came to visit them Mary f and John gave save them all the SIMPLE g pleasures pleas- pleas ures Ires at their and tried to thorn thom feel very much at home tome nut the he city foll folks elite t were plainly bored iFor the they happened hC lc tp bo ho of ot the kind that spend lend all thc they make male without nn any thought B of oC tho the mill rainy day and In a word LIVED UP LP TO THE TIIE MARL MARK IA UK p So It came canine to pass that Jeannette filled fille Marys ears with tho the WO WONDERS ONDERS DEns of ot the time city and the thc some minute r lo thing to to do do life lire o of It all In like man man- man ner did Clarence portra portray In glowing Ji terms the man many OPI OPPORTUNITIES that r. r were waiting In the tho city for tor the man q with a little mone money Thc They went a-a a away but the thc city germ s-erm f had entered time the th country countr folks To mako malco a n t e I a long Ions fable short Mary an and John came to the thc h city and set up In business Now ow- ow contrary to the regular tale John T DID succeed For all his life hee he had nad been Leen a hard worker At first tic the they lived lI er very much as they did dill In th the countr country simply country simply SANELY Butas But as ns time went vent on though Marys Mary's work was J In the city yet et her neighbor scented Deemed to havo have such a a. nice time of ot it with a n maid mald And wh why not site she John a agreed r cd The once a dr dress s gave way to tho rho very often need ned of ot on one For didn't t Mrs Neighbor display a 0 new ono one ever so often To go with Mary John ha had to do o likewise The city relatives were on hand to help with the tho good times time And many man many were ere the tho OCCASIONS In a word they got Kot into the SWIM And now John had to do a little more scheming to l keep things thinS's going as it were and many malt nights he ho would lie awake wondering how hots that over-due over bu business bill was to be met 1 Mary did not make things DO is ns she was Vat wont But Dut cYer every da day some ome new little innovation found her her a n WILLING ILLI G customer When hen John r re reminded re- re minded Mary to He lie a hit bit careful about this that or 01 the Ute other thing ho he was met with tears IS of ot disappointment and rebuke For there them was teas limo Iho neighbor to pattern after arter Quarrels came more often orten and so he refrained At last as such uch timings things go John was forced to face an issue Ho Ha HoRs was Rs at the tho end of his re resources Then Theft th they y ha had bath 1 to take tako Inventory in inventory in- in of ot the proceeding The They were tired of the struggle and their former peace seemed Sold golden n Indeed Before it was teas too lato late the they went BACK RACK to go gp FORWARD ARD again MORAL Better IOnAL Better the peace elce of oC little than the time panic of too much I t r r I |