The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28
SMALL TALK.
Warm weather.

school RlTls III Soho hohe'
And our young men are grleving'
Poor rellows--we are sorry for them,
But congratulate the school girls
And now the y. NJ, have donned linen
busters.
Suppose we have another Ice-Cream
Festival.
Last Thursday was the longest day
in the year.
Our people are faring sumptuously
OIL vegetables.
We hear considerable talk Of hog
cholera lately.
Who will present ua with the first
sack of new flour?
Go to church next Sunday, and
behave yourself,
Lantern bugs furnish US with Their
lights these nights.
Watch what you cat, This is the
time of year for flux,
We occasionally hear a struggling
musketer these nights.
The merry song Of the harvester re-
ycrbcratcs in our vicinity.
The music of the threshiug machines
will soon greet our cars.
Palm-Ieaf fans were in demand du-
ring examination exercises.
No preparation yet TO celebrate the
4th, and not likely to he.
Plums are ripe. Now for dcrangc-
mcnts among the juvenile population
Mocking birds are very numerous
this year, and they sing as sweelly as
ever.
1t would be q hard matter to fnl n
man who can swap horses or catch fish
and not lie about it.
Everything, SO FAR, looks lovely for
big crop. You can almost hear the
corn grow hereabouts.
June, sweet, busy June is rapidly
passing away, and still the farmer finds
his hands tull of good, earnest work
If men depended on the judgments
of their neighbors for their passports
to heaven, no one would ever get
there.
Don't think that because you go to
church on Sundays, that you are emit
tied to do as you please the balance OF
the week.
Young man, you can travel up hill
as fast as you please, but when you are
going down hill you had better be
slow about It,
A woman is very much like 4 kettle,
She sings away 50 plcasantly-then
she stops-and, when you least expect
it, she boils over
Checkers is II tavorite game with
some of our citizens, The best play
ers make their headquarters at the
Courthouse.
Some of our pretty girls are using
blue and red ribbons to hold the ears
OF their Newport ties together. We
admire their taste.
The latest fashion now is, that the
parasol must match the dress; so. il
you have a bingham parasol, you must
wear striped stockings.
Magnolia blossoms were circulating
over the hall during the examination at
Mary Sharp College as thick as Con
federate money in war times,
Did you ever notice the expression
OF mans face under the influence of .
first bite of green-apple pie which
the cook had forgotten to swceten?
There is q fine lot of young lassies
and laddies growing up in Winchester,
and whenever we see their smiling
faces, we always "wish we were n boy
again"
Any work, no matter how humble.
that man honors by efficient labor,
will be found important enough to Sc.
cure respect for himself and credit for
his name.
One may talk about his religion so
much that he has no time to practice
it. Rccollect, that one good act proves
more than the longest sentence ever
uttered.
Shock your wheat as though you
expected it to stand in the field for a
year; then, II there does not come q
rainy season, your wheat vii! not be
damaged.
Editing newspaper is somewhat
like carrying an umbrella on windy
day; everybody thinks he could man.
age it better than the one who has hold
of the handle.
Several of the "boys" propose to
have big fishing excursion next week.
Geo. Lefeber heads the list. They
are going down to the Devil-Steps.
on Elk river.
The citizens of Chattanooga are ma.
king preparations 10 celebrate the 4th
of July on a grand scale Our Mayor
has been honored with an invitation to
be present ON the occasion.
Children should never be slapped on
the ears, rs it is likely to make them
deaf. There are other quarters of the
body where punishment. may be in
hicted without danger.
We wish you could see the gentle
care with which one OF our nice young
merchants handles meerschaum pipe
that is just beginning to have a bilious