Show Fables of Everyday Folks MODERN BY SOPHIE SOPHIC IRE HD LOEB Copyright 1912 1312 by the Pre Press company tho the cw tW York World CE upon a n time thero was a It man min O Ho He was vms what they thoy call a SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSFUL SUC SUC- man mam That is to aa say Bay Damo Dame Fortune In lit tho the passing had smiled on him And like Jack Horner homer ho lie had forthwith put In his hlll thumb and pulled out a 1 plum and said What a n good bo boy am mn I IllIe n Il lie thought he was master of ot all nIl ho surveyed He had never had an any great hardships neither had great grent sorrow sorro come his wa way Therefore h ho he was U UNACQUAINTED UNACQUAINTED UN UN- ACQUAINTED with grief frier For one ono can trul truly s sympathize e with another when ha has felt the tho SAME pain So having through no great ef effort of- of fort tort achieved his measure of success S this man viewed himself to the nil air of S See o the conquering heros comes comes' This would have all been vcr very well ell If ho lie had not taken n a particular field for tor his battleground battleground WO WOMAN Ho lIe possessed conceit conceit plus Therefore lot a daughter daught r of Eve E come his bin way and should she prove pro to tobe tobo tobo bo be his passing FANCY FANCI he would at atI I once spot look in tho the mirror and say sayto sayto sayto to himself How sho loves me mc Of or CO 1 course O he hf hid hall the ways and means of or the tho IOD H 1 man Tho The arts and anel crafts cratts were at his command Flow Flow- ore ers tokens of friendship love lovo mC messages mes mes- sa sages all cs all all all were his Implements of or AA h Ho know Just WHAT to Fay ray at the moment when it should have o been said When hen the fancy hn had 1 passed paRse and like Caesar Cne ar ho lie could say I cama mn T I saw I conquered ho would went wend his W way ii In th tho direction of tho the next sweet smile or appealing glance Oh of or It was all done don In a GENTLEMANLY GE TLE wn way so that not ovon oven tho the lady Indy HERSELF might ml-ht take exception to his hla folding lila his tent teut like hilco the tho Arab Arah and sll silently stealing awn away For lor tho conqueror always alwn's has cunning cun CUIl- dug ning and mn may SO contrive e that tile the lady has hns to cut the tho th knot lenot that has ban ha been ma made made Or or e-or or rather tho the spider web ho he has fin woven Ho lie al always J left grief In his wake V But nut that did lId not con concern corn nIM Now cow ow aa DR success I Who not born of ot actual ACHIEVEMENT IE T Is hut but a rL transitory goddess one day ho awoke to find that ho W waa UI no longer a CL successful stul man num lie He had spent ALL SLL In tho the conquering game cam lie was alone alona But nut so 50 groit roat had hen boon his belief In JM elt that he lie had thought ho ennui could STILL create creale tim tho spark of ot sincerity that ho bo had awakened tl along the wa way he had passed p needed anti and WANTED ANTeD r b 1 Ho now sym sym- and love rind kindness For he hail teen Introduced to grief and un understood tin un- tho the need of comforting words and nd deeds deell He lie went nt BACK BACIC to tho those o whom he hind put aside nf But nut as its Father Time Is IB a a. healer of ot all nIl Ills each Cach In turn hor hod boon of or ortho tho the wound and now rn him who ho hail Inflicted It In his bis TRUE lI light ht They were wen But all nIl feeling that he had hind AROUSED was gone Gone never never to return Indeed ho was all alone Tt It was earning coming toward the evening c of or R and ho hn feared the thc He TIo realized rc that thatto to tn him him that HATH love 10 ho bo CIVEN GIVEN GIVEN EN love But to him that h bath th not ov oven sn n that which lie ho hail FEIGNED I I b be taken falcon away from Crom him Ho lIo wished that ho had his lIt life to live all over o again so that he lie ml might ht not have found himself 1 BO so 0 clone WHEN TIlE THE WAY PAY OF THE TIlE TON TON- N- N HOn IS lR NOT 0 PAVED D WITH I GOOD Goon TTE TH OFTEN FALLS BY DY TilE THE o I |