Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-26
TRUTHS AND EOCENTRIOTTIES.

From the Atchison Globe
A man never forgires until he has
had chance to get even, and has i'm
proved the chance.
A very selfish man viii go off by him.
self to laugh, and hunt up company
when he wants to cry.
When you think you are s'fooling' a
man you are very likely to be the
blooming victim yourself.
Argument is often introduced to es-
tablish falsehood. 1t takes few words
to make truth convincing.
1t is not good advertisement for a
man whose wife keeps boarding house
to take his meals down town.
When man goes wrong. the women
are the first to say that it is the fault
of some women who tempted him.
1t may be regarded as corroboratiye
proof that man does not like a Slip
perry pavement when he's down on it.
The devil would learn the meapsng
of despair if people tried half as hard
to get into heaven as they do to get in
to society. s--.
We should like to know a girl of i6
who did not spell Love with big L, Or
a waman of 26 who did not spell Dol
lar with a big ID.
A man cannot name an hour that;he
has not said something foolish, but be
,l>or I, L. ,,<-4&
said anything wise.
Some people appear to think that sin
in a woman is always a sin. With q
man sin is mistake soon to be for
given and forgotten.
The man who parts his coat tails
when he sits down, may be taking the
best of care of his coat. but he does not
look pretty when he does it
1t does more good to work than it
does to talk; it does not take as much
time, and does not bother others as
much We wonder that people do not
do more of it.
Take the difference between the pic
lures on the outside of a show, and
what you see inside, and you VIII have
the difference between engagement
and marriage.
/ Until men learn to use little of the
wisdom in their OWN affairs that they
devote to the management of the affairs
of their neighbors, the world will con-
tinue to hear of failures.
1t is SO much easier to raise your
hand at a revival meeting, to signify
that you are Christian, than it Is TO
lift the same hand to do good deed
after the meeting is over
Did anyone ever know d husband
and wife who were equally thin
or equally fat? Every farm wagon that
comes to town shows that either the
mans end of the seat is WAY up in
the air, or else it is the wonan's. E
There is a sweeter look on the face OF
the woman who wheels buggy through
the streets, with several little ones
hanging TO her skirts, than you viii find
on the face Of the woman who rides in
her carriage holding on her lap pet
poodle.
If you have friend who thinks you
are the greatest thing on earth, do
Everything to induce him to keep THAI
opinion of you. The older you grows
the greater you will realize how few
there are who will think SO highly of
you. The good opinion of an honest
friend is well worth striving to keep.
1t is very nice for the boys and girls
to have parties," and it does them
good TO associate with each other in a
respectable way, but kissing games age
nasty. What little fun there Is i'm kiss
ing is lost when it is done before a
crowd. The boys, you VIII notice, are
the first to propose kissing games The
boys have little to lose, and the girls
should oppose such nonsense
When you were child, do you re-
member how tired you became of people
} finding fault with you2 Grown people
} dislike to be found fault with as much
as children The next time you feel
disposed to find fault with any one, re-
, member your own faults instead, and
} keep quiet There is to much fault
finding in the world IF you do not
like man or woman, keep away srom
, them; do not try TO reform them by
finding fault We never knew a gen.
teel man OF woman who was a fault
/ finder.