El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-22
Fables Of A Wise Dame
By DOROTHY DIX.

~ nee upon a time there was a
I'd woman who was the happy
Mother of an Infant Prodigy.
The little one was indeed a Wonder.
He could Breathe just as naturally as
could be, and while still in dresses ne
recited pieces in a way that brought
the Tears Of Agony 10 the Eyes Of the
Listener.
His Fond Mamma never let an OBJ
pOrtunity get past her Of Pushing hin
to the front and showing him Of II
the Conversation turned on Music and
some one began tOuung CarusO she
rang in little Willie and had him
Marble the Cute Dirty he learned in
the Kindergarten.
If any one mentioned Finance it re-
minded her of the stunts Willie could
DO with figures, and she lugged him
in TO Add two and two together for
the Diversion of the Audience. If a
Chauncey Depew Of the dinner table
was getting off a good story, she
would break ri to tell the Smart
Things Willie said, and II any one
dared to mention a Great Artist she
would yank out the Picture Of a purple
Cow in a sky Blue Pasture that Willie
had Just executed
Made EN- Tired.
Instead OF being a Conversational
Thriller, as she supposed this made
every one very Tired and they re-
garded her as the Champion Bore OF
Society, and whenever they saw her
coming Il was Back to the Pines 1or
all who could beat it.
Unfortunately, however, this World
is so small that is impossible to get
as far away from the Mothers OF
Smart Children as One Would Like
and as they could not lose Willie and
his Mamma, her Fellow Creatures
braced up TO bear it with what For
utude they could.
Now it CHANGED that one day there
was "A large Dinner at which VIII
lies Mamma got the Floor, and began
TO Monolog about her Angel Child.
Alas grOaned the Audience, I'VE
are in for it now, for she will not let
up until it thunders, and we shall have
TO applaud while Willie goes through
his Tricks All me, what a Misjudged
Man Herod has been, and how we wish
that he was here to grapple with this
Problem and slay this Accused Child
before he Stays US"
However, nothing happened to stop
the Fond Mother and the Infant Pine
uOmenon from getting in their Deadly
Work, but when the Wonder Child had
finished his Performance. an Old Man
arose up and thus addressed the
Mother:
Il believe" he said. that your Son
is Very Backward for his Age, for he
merely repeats Nursery Rhyems with
out any Action whereas little Emer-
son Brown who is no older than he is,
=
with Delsarte Interpretation, and a
Musical Accompaniment"
Blow To Mother.
This was Blow that staggered
Mother but in order to make good she
dra gged little Willie TO the front
again and made him do a juggling act
with figures, but instead of giving him
the Glad Hand, the Old Man looked at
him pityingly.
'.Ha." he said. 1T is plain that VIII
lie has no Financial Ability, or else he
would not be doing Kindergarten
stunts at his Age. Do you not know
that all great Financial Geniuses have
displayed their Talents in the Cradle
and that before he was two years old
Mr.. Rockefeller had already got an
option on all the MIX Bottles in sight.
and Before he could walk J. Pierpont
Morgan had organized a Perambulato
Trust?
Determined to make one last Effort
to sustain the reputation of her OFF