The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-10-06

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The incest things in summer hats
Pretty girls.
The man who feels certain that he will
not succeed is seldom mistaken.
What is it that a man with two eyes can
not see with one? T'othcr eye.
Wonder if the sea serpent could swallow
all the stories that are told about him?
The question of the hour is always one
of great mOmcn
Why was Eve like Sunday? She was
the first of the weak.
The tics formed at sociablcs sometimes
lead 10 matrimonial knots.
IF everybody would mind his own bust
ness we wonder how a lawyer would live.
Tho following words, if spclt backward
or forward, are the same: Name M one
man
What will he the ruling fancy of the
season? In other words, what will take
the place of progressive cuchrc?
a Western paper says there are pretty
tough nuts in the army. Does 1t refer to
the kernels?
The man who has made his own meat
and bread is the man who carries homo the
money Wncu Ills COllOu Is SOlu.
There is frozen music in many a heart
that the beams of encouragement would
melt into glorious song.
Now for the "sCar-and- ycllow-lcaf" poet.
lie may approach, but with The UNDER
standing that We keep n club.
1t isn't always the man who knows the
most that wins, but the man who can apply
what he does know.
y man Of short statue gives us n reason
for his stuntcd growth that he was brought
mp when a child on condensed milk.
It is a little singular that a journal for
the blind should get SO excited as to printa
scathing article against low-nCckcd dresses.
We know the summer is over because
when we pick up the papers now we don't
see columns about how the girls look in
their blthiMg suits.
George: "Do you know, Ethel. old
Smokes had q pcrplcNity ii, the other day.
Ethel: "a pcrplcxity TT You mean a
parallel stroke
as she tripped on n string stretched across
the pavement. Il feel as if / could cat a
couple of them this minute, raw"
The floral bell is getting TO he rather
stale for marriage ceremonies. Why should
not some enlcrprising couple he married
under a pair tree?
y Chicago minister preached on what
can do to he Slvci?' EwonlA seem that
about the first move would be TO get out of
Chicago.
-" Mother, said a little girl, q believe
I'll BE- Il duchess when grow up GLOW
do YOU oNpcct" to become u duchess. my
daughter Why, by marrying Il Dutch,
man to be sure.
The lawyers and doctors of Ellsworth,
Me, went out in cold blood the other day
and attempted to play base ball. The law.
ycrs won, but the doctors will eventually
get the best of them.
y young man who has Il good deal of
spare time on his hands wishes to learn of
something that will keep him occupied.
We can think of two things right otT-gct-
ting married and tipping over u beehive.
\ little girl lately wrote to her friend:
y eNtcrday Il little baby sister arrived, and
papa Is ON a journey. 1t was but Il piece
Of luck that was at home 10 take
care Of it,"
When a wife runs away leaving II hus.
oand and nine children, as a Tennessee
woman did the other day, the poor man
might almost be excused for wishing that
he had never seen her,
Give a boy address and accomplishment
and You give him the mastery of palaces
AN! fortune wherever he may 70. lie has
not the trouble Of earning or owning
them: they solicit him to enter and possess.
The girl who never screams when she
Sc"s a snake !>n'ta safe girl to marry. With
her calm, cool, collected, uncXci,ablc dis.
position She would hi where she aimed
with the rollingpin every time.
y contemporary asks: ''IIow shall