Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1914 — FABLES FOR THE FAIR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FABLES FOR THE FAIR

JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM

THE WOMAN WHO PLAYED “CYRANO” i There was once a Woman who was very Plain. She was also CleverJ ' She had a Friend who was Far from being Either.- Her Triend was much Interested in a Brilliant Man who was an Author. The Author begged to Correspond with her, but she Knew that he would Not Care to Keep it Up long, because she could Not write Clever Letters, nor Understands ' them, for that matter. “I will Write them For You,” said the Plain Woman. “I think it! would Be Amusing, and I should Like to be Amused.” “Oh, How Kind you Are!” said her Friend, Gratefully. The Woman had read “Cyrano,” and so she Knew how These Thing* rfj Worked. She Wrote many Letters, and also Taught her Friend to Play Up to| S|| them Subsequently in Conversation. Finally the Author Got to the Point! where he, as it were, Offered to Share his Desk with her. “It is now Time for a Coup dTtat,” said the Woman. “You must* Tell him the Truth, and Let him See Who it is that he Really Loves.”' Her Friend was Frightened, and when the Author came Again she' Confessed. “You have been Laboring Under a Delusion,” she said. “I Cannot!

tell a Lie, because you would Certainly Find me Oht later. She wrote them?’ “Who ? That Thin One ?” said the Author, in Surprise. “You don’t Say so!” “Shall I Call her Down?” said the Friend, sadly. * “Not by a Great Deal!” said the Author, Decidedly. “Why do wo .-8 Want her?” “Why!” exclaimed the Friend, “Don’t you want to Marry her?” “You Precious little Idiot!” said the Author. “Do you Imagine that A Man Marries a Portfolio? Now don’t Cry, or you’ll make your Lovely Eyes ah Bed.” ' . This teaches us that All the World’s Not the Stage.

"DO YOU IMAGINE A MAN MARRIES A PORTFOLIO?”