The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-07
The Wasps That Envied
the Bees
They Thought the Bees Prosperous Because They
Could Sting.

The Russians ambitious He had read of
ceul who got their by thrung else
aside forgetting their old friends forming rich and powerful
acquaintance and trucking and Oadyng everybody able to
help them.
his father too, would do these things and
become rich and successful
Then the old man related his fable which he
long ago. sitting at his fathers knee in the little house in
dirty quarter of a dirty Russian town.
village of wasps, falling upon evil days, afflicted
with pestence and famine Nearby village of bees propered
exceedingly being cared for by who supplied them with
sugar when the frost fed the flowers furnishing them with
comfortable houses protected them with against the
cold of winter.
wasps having rendered service the fairy in whose
province they lived, besought him for assistance
1.-THE BEES they said, 'are cared for by while in
these evil days. suffer panic and peence Can nothing be
done for us?
YES said the fairy ''much be done for you. Go
study find the of the favor they find in mems
eyes, and if it be gift that you have not will bestow upon
you
The day the wasps after closely watching the bees
returned to the fairy and said:
The bees have sngs with which they brighten into
providing for them Give also these sng and shall be
as well cared for they
Smiling, the fairy gave them the stings and the wasps
delighted with their gift went forth to them against
The following day they were driven by man from the
neghborhood their homes and children destroyed
their return prohibited pain of death.
'The wasps said the old man. when he had finished the
fable made the mistake that you would make.
Had they taken the trouble observe closely they would
have discovered that the bees service furnish
ing him with food not their ability to harm him. for which
they rewarded with homes in winter and food in time
famine
Wherever prosperous successful other men
especially young ready to initiate them
The stories of Of genius eagerly read The bog
rapes Of those who succeeded in demand in all the il
brares
And usually the emulous young trying to be
initiating
worst qualities and proceeds oyousy make them his
course youth fired with desire to be poet would
begin by snarng at his mother and sisters Milton used to
snarl at his daughters.
all youthful tators of great writer's
invariably initiate the glazing faults Of their ea-faults
which pardonabe in genius but entirely unforgable in
mediocrity.
Unfortunately ability in certain directions brings
them into prominence in other directions very like other
men, with all their shortcomings and eccentricities.
SPITE OF THEM
Burns was grea: poet although he occasionally drank
more than was good for him.
had been content to let other drink his
whiskey.
And if he and other convvia genuses had led temperate
lives there would have been fewer victims Of 1.-THE
temperament the aspiring writer's of succeeding gen.
erations.
in this country men have become rich or noted or popular
1t will pay those who emulate them to find the real of
their success.
that avarice greed is not worth
having
But often the avaice greed bad qualities are
merely the accomplishments success not the CAUSE of it.
Imitation, of course is the WORST way young man
to begin life Sooner that what he is to
accomplish depends hmsefon his
character he tries unsuccessfuy other men
But if he initiate initiating the usefu1
qualities of other men Copying their faults even
faults conspicuous is foolish action of the
deuded who thought the stngs accounted for
perity of the bees.
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