Show OUR FAIRIES The New York Sun has an epitome of a paper read recently at the meeting meet-ing of the British association Prof John Rhys on the ethnology of the British Isles He believes that the fairy tales which have so long been an enchantment to the children of the British Isles and their descendants had their origin In a real race of short stumpy swarthy men and women who lived under ground and hunted and fished and were Inordinately fond of music and dancing The article Is most Interesting These people mingled with larger people a little at first but always had mysterious myste-rious ways and out of them fairytales fairy-tales began to be woven and then increased In-creased as time went on and grew faster when the Imagination was alone depended upon to give the fairies being be-ing and to clothe them with weird attributes at-tributes The story reminds one of what a real lively imagination could work up about our cliftdwellers when they were the residents of southern Utah It couldbe told how they built their houses and why how they dressed what they did etc Maybe they were like bigger people maybe they had their loves and their hates I no one can tell hov many died of ap pendioltlsj no one knows but that they ran newspapers and fought vaccination vaccina-tion In the name of the Lord and there Is not much doubt but that the whole array were opposed to giving up a 1 public square to the Los Angeles railroad rail-road company Maybe some of them were prone to get out and harangue I the people on the probable future of their city they may have had a City Council and an electric light company and possibly gave short weight on coal and ran the full gamut of all the work of modern men It seems to us that some good stories might be written writ-ten regarding them the only moral needed being the fact that despite their work their anxiety their loves and their hates there came a time when the last survivor of them all stood above the graves of allhls people and cried out that the world was but vanity van-ity and that It may have been the I echo of that cry that Solomon heard 1 and gave It out as his own |