The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-27
FOOLS OR KNAVES.
Which OF the Two l. the More Harmful
Ia thc Domestic Circles

Ia thc Domestic Circiee
Ar old question often asked Is,
Which 10 mos harm to the world, /
fools or knavc.. But. old rs it i,
no one has yet answered it satisfac-
torily to all-that i. authoritative
~ and decisively. And no one can. /
for it l. one of those questions which T
depend on circumstance of /.
those secsaw conditions where now /
one l. uppelmOst and now the other. I
and no one can say which l. SUI
premc
The fools. who are many. with I
the best intentions in the world I
work infinite mischief even To those /
they love best and would serve most /
loyalty For one thing, ~ "A rule. /
they are chattcrhOXes and let ont
everything they ought To keep tO
themselves. If they are your guests, (
meaning no harm, thcy gossip about
your domestic affairs, discuss your
character. tell all the little circum-
stances OF your daily life. and. bc.
ing fools. unwittingly distort all
they relate and cXasgerate into i'm.
purtance the veriest trifies that may
have occurred. \ sharpcned accent
IN Il hasty contradiction-cven good
folk are given To- these puny bursts
of irritation is made into the sure
sign of deep seated disagreement,
and you and your husband, who live
like turtle doves in the main. with
Just an occasional. very occasional,
peck, are presented To- society as
profoundly inhalmonious and al
ways quarreling You cannot quito
understand what your sympathetic
friends would he at when they speak
To YOU compa~>ionately sigh and
say. Poor dear You do not know
why you should hc piticn not hav.
ing overheard your fool when he OF
she reported that little scene at Ia.
ble where you had perhaps blunder.
ingly. perhaps obStinatcly. main.
tanned that the shield was red when
your husband declared il was blue.
Thus the little squirt came. and the
fire died down a. soon a. il was kin
died, like a match that catches hut
does not burn. But your fool made
II into serious confiagration, and
only one of many like unto il. 50
with all Your domestic concerns in
detail, If you have fool as your
guest-one who docs not understand
the very alphabet of good breeding
in the reticence imposed ON all who
are admitted into the intimacy of a
family.
y fool of this kind l. mischievous
beyond all after remedy In this
gossip moagering world of ours il
needs but the slightest push to set
the snowfall a-rolling, when ii gath
crs rs il goes till it Is out of all pro-
portion with the original nucleus.
y great many of those disastrous
surmiScS and those evil reports
which flIt about the world like spec
tiers in the twilight are the unde-
signed work of fools-fools as fool
ish as was that silly knavc who
used his master > formula To call up
q demon water carricr-a bheesti
not quite after the pattern of good
old 'cathen Gunga Din-and could
not lay him again, though well nigh
drowned by the creature he had in.
Vokcd. Between fool and a knavc.
then, rs "A guest, the fool i the
worst, because the knavc cannot dO
more harm, and the chances are
that. having brains and counting
the cost and the gain of his own ac-
tions, he viii refrain from setting
about lies which will do him no
good and may come smashing back
ON his own pate in the form of an
action for libel. with damages Ia
follow Philadelphia Times.