Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-03-21
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Those Who Fancy Al Sorts Of Things,
More or Less Complimentary to SELF

Those Who Fancy Al Sorts OF Things,
More or Less Complimentary to Self
Beware Of the man who thinks he
has none, for he is the man most
likely TO be permeated, saturated with
w~himsicalities.
Our whims become a part of our
character, Just as our virtues or our
vices; indeed, with some Of us they
become so prominent that they over
shadow everything else in our natures
and we would not be recognized by
our friends If, like Christian at the
Beautiful Gate, we should suddenly
lose the burden and appear before
them.
L know a woman-a noble, gener-
Gus hearted woman in most things
who tips the scales at 200 pounds,
whose principal whim is that she is
not so large rs she looks. Wherever
she goes, she becomes the terror of the
modiste. Her first remark always, to
a new one, is to be sure to remember
that she is not SO large as she seems al
first sight She is continually chang
ing, because, rs she says, they don't
understand her figure and always
make her look larger than she is.
/ have known a man who fancies
that his early teachers spoRed a first
class artist by not encouraging his
school day ~caricatureS. lie never
speakso of art and artists without bring
ing up the thought that many an EN-
byro Raphael has been killed by the
frosts OF disapproval. As he always
supplements this assertion with his
own personal experience, it is quite pa
tent 10 his friends that when he says
many a one" he means particularly
the one who wears his shoes.
know another mar so grotesaue in
feature that his face would make a
good illustration for q comic almanac
or a copy Of Dickens, whose fayorite
whim is that he bears a great resem-
blance 10 the illustrious BENJAMIN
Franklin. Never having crossed the
path Of any of the old statesmanis
heirs and acquainted them with his
belief, he has lived TO a good old age.
DE derives great comfort from the
statement of the mental scientist who
affirms that if two people look alike it
betokens a similarity of mind. DIFF
ference in surroundings and circum-
stances only has prevented his attain.
ing the learning and eminence OF
Franklin.
In the suburbs of a distant city lives
q childless old couple who, when past
middle life, suddenly became very
rich through the legacy of q relative.
Their previous life had been very SIM
pie and narrow, as far as any knowl-
edge of the world outside the sim
pie village life was concerned but
they Immediately set 10 work TO live
as other moneyed people do. The old
lady took up the study Of the diction.
airy 10 improve her conversational
powers. The old gentleman went 10
Europe, TO Rome, and proved a good
angel 10 the struggling students, many
Of whom found an unquestioning pur-
chaser Of their productions. He came
home with the most wonderful collec-
tons of statuary and pictures, the
most homogeneous mass one could inn
agine. He made his house one vast
picture gallery from basement 10 at
tic. The large grounds about the
house he dotted with statuary till O
stranger would imagine he was com
ing 10 a cemetery when he first caught
sight of the cleaning marble through
the foliage. Some Of the results Of
the old lady's dictionary study have
become old landmarks in the stock Of
local funnyisins Of the community.
For instance, a neighbor calls. Good
morning, Mrs. B. is Mr.. - at
homer Yes, he is out on the me-
randum pursuing Shakespeare" An
othertme, in answer 10 the samequery &
Yes, he went out on the lawn-to-
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