Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-25 | Page 19 | Ruskin on the House Fly

OX ON THE TIlE HOUSE F PLY FLY Y The common house tl fly against which eer everybody's hands are arc turned was wai described b by as M the most per per- teel free freo and republican of ol creatures remarks s the tho London Chronicle There Tere Is no courtesy In him ho he wrote oto lie Ho lo does not care caro whether It li Is a king kinK or ora ora ora a clown clo whom ho teases and In eyer every step of at his swift mechanical mechanic marchand march marchand and In every every pause of ot his re resolute ob observation observation ob- ob there Is one and tho same gae perfect expression of ot perfect egotism perfect Independence and conr self an and conviction of oC tho the world hayIng hay hav ing been made for flies flics mes It I ma may bo ho remembered that when hen king of at Sparta Sparta Invoked Athena Athena foe for strength to withstand Hector tho the SOd god goddess Y dess gave him the tho courage of or the tho most fearless and audacious of oC creatures cra crea crea- T tures tues the fly i I