Show Ii r I Fables F of i. i j I Everyday Folks f I I I I BY Bl SOPHIE IRENE a LO LOEB B I Copyright 1313 1913 it by the ie Press Tret Co THE S SEEKER EKER OF OP MYSTERY CE upon a time tinie there O ONCE was a LL young woman Sho She was an impressionable im im- im young oun woman An Im 1111 Pe youner youn woman Is not apt ant iu u ue De one ana whO taJ es lIt me mite vcr very I She Is absorbed In Iii everything that comes her wa way and even cven goes out or her way to take everything that comes She accepts man maul many things as gospel that are groundless s. s and builds on them a 11 firm basis for thinking She has DREAMS and takes them as truths In the ear early years rears this young woman haunted the fortune tellers and sought ht th the seers of destiny until a mystical realm was her especial pre pro In Iii the common course of e events the young O woman became a u wire wife And now she eho had more time for tor continuing her flights o of fanc fancy She hobnobbed with her women nel neighbors and evory every new fad religious academic scientific or otherwise found round her one of ot its devoted devotees In truth she wag vas HAU HAUNTED with them and sho spent mall mami many sleepless nights night In thinking over o the supers supers- lore that was being propounded In her iier willing oars and everybody body still longing to bo ho humbugged d. d Every lr new now cult found her one ono of oC tho the charter member mem meni b ber bers e rs One Onn dR day It it- was nn an Idea Idell of ot colors by which she might direct her ever everyday existence Another T time It was a series I o of numbers which If Ir pursued would bring her Health fame and 1111 fortune I Her mind became one mars of lr m mysticism cism And ever every ever little mystic had a meaning all Its Hc own She forgot the theREAL REAL nEAr tImings things that were wore ever around herand her herand herand and wa ta was lost In the tho maze of ot m mystery ster She Sho would not listen to lo the advice of or orthe the earth-bound earth spirits who know that tho the supernatural is iR only the natural UNEXPLAINED Now this woman as asIs asIs asis Is usually tho the case caRe not satisfied with being herself a n wanderer amon among the these e wonders of oC the fio n and thin things s was us eager In converting con her better half to her beliefs This man n however er was a terra firma Individual who saw the tho trend o of the current which after a while bade bado fair Cair 1 t. t a to I Ing to save savo her her- from It H. He endeavored to give lve her the tho philosophy of 01 old 1 Omar tr-j tr I who said Myself when young oun did dM eagerly frequent fre Cre- fre- fre I quent Doctor quent-Doctor Doctor and Saint and heard great argument argument About About It and about I hut but evermore C Caric out h by the t same door where In I went Yd the woman would not heed and continued In her hel the whichever I blows WLL way Then something happened Yer Very mu mu h h like her sister o of the shoe sho shoe shoe- r this young woman lived Jived In a 11 Uto ate v she sho 1 l hud had so 50 ninny many fancies she didn't know I what to doTo do To make a long Ions fable Cable short the med med- g ical ICI man was vas the lie friend In need and he s pro proscribed three words Cut it out b Ho lIe salt said something about nerves and pro prostration and wholesomeness and the tomfoolery of fancies And as asa a a. last re resort ort she was as confronted with the ultimatum of or either life or mystIcs mystic She went vent through a n siege c of or suffering and at last had to REALIZE with old I sent Bent my Soul through h the Invisible Some letter of that life After-life And by and b by my Soul to spell to And d I J Myself me Hell am n Hea and But she wished she had saved her Now No suffering b by recognizing th the Here and MORAL IOn THE SAILOR OF 01 MYSTERY ON OX THE SE SE IS ONLY SAFE E WHEN HEN HE rE CAN ANCHOR TO iO THE TIlE TRUE AT 1 THE ri I FIRST CALL OF HORN THE FOG- FOG |