San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-06
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Written for the LIGHT.

Written for the LIGHT.
People who borrow trouble by
always anticipating evil, are al.
ways miserable.
The man who regards all other
men as rogues, is the biggest rogue
Of all.
Book Tearing without common
sense, renders one learned fool.
A woman who is disrespectful
and unkind to her mother, will be
sure to make a sorry wife.
Parents should not shorten the
period of girlhood and boyhood by
converting their girls and boys in
to women and men.
Prosperity multiplies a mans
friends, but adversely separates
the true from the false friends.
The man who does everything in
churlish manner, will seldom
possess any friends.
II to "eschew evil and do good"
constitute religion, a great many
church members are sailing under
false colors.
Professional politicians are dead
beats, whom the public feeds and
clothes for the sake of their gift Of
CAB.
Politeness costs nothing, yet
many persons Of both sexes are too
stingy to be polite.
Friendship has been so extern
sively counterfeited by flatterers
and hypocrites as to be almost out
of fashion.
A selt-conceited fellow always
gives himself away by his endless
chatter and his effort to monopo-
lie conversation.
Fortune tellers profess to read
the future justas one reads book,
that is before him, but sensible
and thinking persons know they
possess no such gift of foreseeing
future events, as they claim. ~s
Women show their good sense
in preferring to be bread winners
to being the playthings and toys
of man.
Women have an equal right
with men to work, yet there are
men that censure them for work
ing, but really for taking work
from men.
1t is all right for women to sup
port lazy or drunken husbands by
sewing and washing; but when
they compete successfully with
men for situations in stores and in
counting rooms a howl is set up
by the dudes and drones.
In a few more years every man
in Texas will be notary public.
A politician out of office is sure
to feel the country will be ruined.
The people do not look on the
Brand new city collector as the
right sort of "brand."
The juvenile toughs and rowdies
both white and black, in the city,
should be introduced, frequently,
to the Recorder.
Tattling lays the eggs from which
are Matched neighborhOod quarrels
and rows.
Spring is a devotee at the shrine
of st. Patrick, as she wears moth
ing but green from top to bottom.
A large number of men, like bal
looms, rise by gas.
Solid success is the result OF
solid efforts, not OF accident or luck.
The legislature should regulate,
and not fatally cripple corpora
tions.
JEFF McLemore's bill to impose a
tax on obdurate bachelors is not
original, as Henry A .Wise preached
the same proposition as far back as
1916.
The man, or woman, who never
speaks well OF any person, is bad
hearted creature.
A few drops of oil will lubrlcate
the wheels of business much better
than a gallon of the sharpest
vinegar.
The Persian of cid time used to
sell the pretty girls to the highest
bidder, and use the money in CIV
ing portions to homely girls. Why
not tax rich girls to raise dowers
for the poor ones?
Plcnics and red bugs will soon be
the fashion.