TO “LOOK AT HOME!”

The advice given by a girl to Thales, the Milesian philosopher, was

strong and practical. Seeing him gazing at the heavens, as he walked

along, and perhaps piqued by his not casting an eye on her attractions,

she put a stool in his path, over which he tumbled and broke his shins.

The excuse she made was, that she meant to teach him, before he indulged

himself in star-gazing, to “look at home.”