The Washington times., 1918-10-07
Two Fables Worth While:
Or, Don't Think of Success Unless You Are Ready To
Give Up Something
Here are two FABLES:

There was painter once who painted picture. This
painter made only picture It all done in tones
Of red Other painters and marveed at the picture
They the painter work They his pigment. They
his brushes they were unable to solve his secret
They went away and into distant lands and pur
chased pigments rich and They painted and failed
to produce the results Of the painter in red Others
suited the chemists and mixed for themselves coors of
drous uer but when they put them the they
faded
And all the time the painter worked alone. All the
time the painter grew winter and whittier and the painting
grew redder and redder At last his fellows found him
dead beside his picture His brush in his hand and his
work finished. The who found him stood before
the canvas wonder. Each one said to his neighbor
Where did he get his conception? Where did he get
his color?"
And when they had undressed him to put the grave
clothes him they found upon his left breast open
wound It was old, old wound that had been there
many years Its edges crusted and hard But those
who buried the painter still marveed They still said
to another Where did he get his conception? Where did
he get his color?''
Once upon time there was man who went through
life without accomplishing what he started Each
morning he had noble thoughts and went forth with fine
purposes. But each night he back with failure
stamped upon his brow. His neghbors looked upon him
and he seemed to be other But he knew that he
was not as other From his earliest youth he had
been chained being who kept behind him and held
him back in his every endeavOr to attain to something
better.
Each day ne had tried get glimpse of this being
but had always failed Many times he had asked his
friends to tell him something concerning the being his
back but each time his friends declared they nothing
This man started out in the morning with the declaration
I will this day accomplish something for my advancement
in life" At his back the chained being would answer
why be foolish? You cannot by any effort accomplish
anything to advance yourself have willed it so and
stand always ready to prevent you And it So
And by and by the man became Respondent and tired
Of trying to become something better among his fellows
he said, II will now try to be of to somebody
else will help somebody else to attain" And the being
for the act that would help somebody else the being
at his back seized his hand and he poweress.
In the end the man was possessed with unconquer-
able desire to triumph not for himself or for his fellows
but OVER the being chained his back He went away
from the hauns of humanity and out into the wds And
when he aar in the mountains he began the struggle
The bonds of iron and the being great strength
BE fought for hours get his where might
get glimpse of him. but in vain Finally as strength was
failing and the thought of ultimate failure was fastening
The finish, the chains broke and the and the being
apped in the last fight The struggle long and even
and DEATH stood them both they fought At last
strength was Zach dropped at the instant and
IN falling the MAN the face of the BEING It was
HIMSELF
Well these are rather morbid stories which somebody
the writer does not know who invented long ago. but they
contain truth which be missed even by those
who read in haste and do not stop to ponder.
You have all heard and women, young and old
who complain that life is failure for them They look
at their successful neghbos and marvel as did the
envious painters Make mistake however story of
always the You cannot hope to be great
among men in any sense worth while without putting into
work LIFE BLOOD.
There undoubtedly who might be worth more
to themselves and to the world if it not for THEM
SELVES. The hardest task in lfe and the one most es
Sentia to success is the breaking with self at the very
cause thew are Chained to TEEMsEVEs band ond ua DE-
having failed to break the bonds early in life
These things obvious in the two fables printed here
but here is something which is not quite evident the
surface:
Don't gauge SUCCESS by what you GET OUT of it