The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-02-11
PITH AND POINT.

You can't measure girls love by
its signs.
A maiden speech" One stickful Of
tutti trutti, please
Sober second thoughts are generally
preceded by headaches.
Courtesy is the salt of society, as
love is the essence of life.
The testimony of good conscience
is the glory of good man.
A decent provision for the poor is
the true test of civilization.
Nature makes US vagabands, the
world makes US respectable.
Two things a woman always jumps
at-a conclusion and a mouse.
They are never alone that are &C
companied with noble thoughts.
There is a remedy for every wrong,
and a satisfaction for every soul.
People who blow their own horns
do not always furnish good music for
other people.
Grip and matrimony are epidemic
this winter, and as between the two
we'll take whiskey.
A great many people want the
earth, but are willing to compromise
on a few building lots.
A good cry has the same effect on
an angry woman that 4 good dinner
has on z mad man.
When they say brides costume
was dream do they mean to imply
that it was an illusion1
Honor and shame rom no condi-
ton rise Some mel were lowly born
on whom there are no flies.
Children think NOT of what is past,
nor what is to come, but enjoy the
present, which few of us do.
The love that conquers the heart is
the love that stoops to raise the object
upon which it would be bestowed.
When young man is writing a
love letter he should keep constantly
before him how it would look in print
A woman delights in a speaking &C
quaintancc, especially if she is per-
mitted to do most of the speaking.
The shortest love letters on record
are said to be the following: "Dear
Clara? Tom" L" Dear Tom, TWILL
Clara
Rosalie-" Do you keep diary?"
Grace" Yes. I've kept one for the
first week in January for the last seven
years"
The first thing that some women
will want to do when they get to
Heaven will be to hunt broom and
dust and clean.
The kind of women who would
make their husbands obey and stand
around are the kind of women who
don't have any.
He" And you can only be sister
to me?" She That's all. He
q Then please kiss me goodbye; my
sister always does
Coroner" What was found in the
dead woman's pocket?" Assistant
" Nothing as yet; we've sent for an
expert to find the pocket"
Marriage seems never SO much of
failure to a man as when something
goes wrong at home that he can't pos
sibly blame on his wife
"Does dress make the lady?" Well,
if it is az evening dress, no. There is
not enough of that to make more than
a good sized infant.
81 am very sorry for poor Mrs.
Cumso" "Why?" She has SO little
to live for How is that?" :. They
say she lives only for her husband"
Girls, maids and spinsters, do not
let leap year so down on your single
wretchedness. Let no unmarried man
escape.
Calamities that seem insuperable
when looked at from a distance lose
half their power when met and resisted
with fortitude.
Happiness is chain Of innumera-
Die links, welded together by the fl
deity of those to whom we have min
stered in time of need.
The woman you would call a poem
n the evening is not the woman you
would call in the morning to kindle /,
he breakfast fire and fry the slap |
acks.