Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-20 | Page 39 | Fables of Everyday Folks

Fables iKi of Everyday Folks j I j By Sophie Irene LochS Loeb Loch S by Tt The Tb Preas ress Co TUB Fur III A N OLD fable Cable says flays There uTher was once A AN t a bald man who sat nat down after work on a 8 hot summers summer's day A Fly Ply came cam up and kept Jept buzzing about his bald pate pato and stinging him from tIme to time Tho The Man a aimed med a J. J blow at hu ilia little enemy but but his whack his palm camo carno down on his head Instead A Again ln the fly tormented him but this time the Man tan was wiser wilier and said ald I r will only Injure myself If It I take tako notice of ot despicable enemies U Once Onca upon a time there thore was wa a 8 worn wora- fin an The wom woman n liked meed to talk talk ABOUT ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE Jn In truth she ahe lived on talk Just when her neighbor was wa buy busy some som Thursday morninG she ho would fly In and buzz a H. little while about alt all sorts of ot things And then b by and b by she would send forth a a. sting Rh She would toll tell about seeIng a a. neighbors neighbor's husband downtown talking ver very very at at- at to another woman Hor- Hor rora And she would feel teel bad about Aboul th tho poor little thins thine the wit wife etc eta Then tho maid next door was discharged and she said cald ald so 80 and BO and thus and thus Awful thine No o matter how bow lightly nho sho was waved wa off sho sIlo would come back a again train aln and make herself In tn spite of ot allt all I. I t V Now It happened that a a. young worn won an In tho the n neighborhood ll had become th the particular target for th the talking talking- I crt tun At l t tr c every little meeting t thi the talker would whisper to som some someone one Ohl Oh I have e something awfully good to tell you jou Then would follow tollow a s something new she ha had neen or heard about the tho particular young woman As things thing go Co It came camo to the young womans woman's ears But she bravely he heeded dd It not and brushed the momentary re re- re aside Yet tho the woman per per- and slated and finally to the point of ot TELLING tho the young youns woman herself herselt Th Thin n there was an ACCOUNTING TING The talker was made mado to lo PROVE her bet Assertion aSsertIon anti and as usual she could not do so for tor It was ALL talk Everybody jaw her as 18 she ohio was was was-a a human fly ny flitting flitting flit flit- ting BR from one on place pIneo to another and On one n o ONLY ry to be lie regarded res d In the light or ot a a. fly One neighbor after another found excUses 4 for tor not being In when she Bhe For the they recognized at last on a a I a cos Osip p. p The woman oman awoke For or she sho ho wondered wh why she ehe was wn not received d bore hore there and every ever where Soon site aho round found site she had no nu She was waa shunned l' l or ah saw I he home elt as ns saw n her er She was wall to take Sho she coun e found found- Oun M u self and nud this was what MORAL tonAI ARE BUT RUT HUMAN X HOUSE FLIES l IE lf OP SCREENS H E-H li PLACED C D BON N BB In