Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-02-03
ALL SORTS OF TROUBLES.
List That VIII Be Good Enough Until
One More Complete Turns Up.

List ThHt VIII Be Good Enough Until
One More Complete Turns Up.
The trouble with good many men
is that they spend so much time adj
miring their own ability that they
don let other people have chance
10 SEQ that they havo any ability to
admire.
Ihe trouble with great many
women is that they can't find somo
particular selected man. who will APP
preelate thcm a' they feel in their
Pa'pitaling hearts that every woman
should bo appreciated.
he trouble with II good many girls
Is That they don't find out what thew
want until some time after they have
liad the sad conclusion forced upon
mem that what they want doesn't
want thom.
inc trouble with good many BOYS
Is That they think the rcd cranes that
grow on neighbors vine and that
have TO be picked after dark. nrc n
good deal sweoler and better than tho
ripe black grapes that grow ON their
own vines, and can be gathered in the
bright sunlight OF publicity.
The trouble with great many
readers is that they don't understand
how much easier II is to point out n
tree in magnificent landscape thati,
hairs breadth out ofperspective than
1t is 10 paint tho magnificent land
scapo itself.
The trouble with most of tho horse
car conductors is that they haven't /
eyes enough in tho back of their heads
10 satisfy the public.
The trouble with n cool many af
The school-toachcrs is that the present
school year is divided wrong; instck
of being forty weeks school and twaHe
weeks. vacation, they think 1t should
be forty weeks vacation and twelve
-''asks school. ,
hoys and girls. is.sIr.s,..-.-,-,- .l,iray % ~
that they don't have fifty4tlireo " ~s'.,, ..,s
vacation every year. with an additi1ahl
week on leap year.
The trouble with most Of the people
in this misguided world is that they
waste so much time thinking Of their
virtues and enterprises that they don t
have leisure TO see how laudablc and
useful your little schemes are
The trouble with the small boy is
that his big sister never was small
boy herself. and so sho doesn't know
how the small boy feels.
Tho trouble with tho small girl is
that she isn't bigger.
The trouble with the big girl Is that
every pair Of scales sho steps on gives
her weigh.
The trouble with tho purist in
grammar is that people will persist
in thinking that things themselves
are more important Than how you say
them.
The trouble with lots of cats is that
they don't get enough dreamlcss sleep
moonlight nights.
The trouble with millincrs is that
the womon folks don't get so enthusi-
astic over their bills rs they do over
their boane's.
The trouble with tho average wife
is that her husband is more prodigal
with his protcstations of affection than
he is with his money and that ho
doesn't waste much of either unless
he wants button scwod on.
The trouble with the average hus-
band Is that he knows he ism so big
man as ho wants the world to think
he Is.
The trouble with the people genor-
ally is that they can't always have
what they want, and they seldom
think they want what they have; that
they see their own virtues and other
peoples vices with magnifying
glass, and turned tho telescope tho
wrong end to when they look at their
own vices and other peoples virtues;
that they grumblo when things go
wrong instead of going to work to
make things go right; that they cry
over spilled milk when in all proba-
bility the milk has all the water that
it can stand already. = SomerUiR
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