The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-10


We have too many laws and too few en-
forcements.
People who borrow trouble are always
willing TO give it.
No rest is good except that which con-
duces TO good work.
An empty stomach is nearly always full
OF food for thought.
If woman desires man to be good she
should not tempt him.
The idle attache might be set to work
nursing the street beggars.
The man who keeps out OF the frying
pan never has TO jump in the fire.
The man who takes breakfast in bed is
not up to date, but he is fin De steele.
The most appropriate monument to the
dead Congress is the Cleveland bust.
Some people waste SO much time in re-
Penting, they never have time to atone.
No matter how cheap a joke may be, we
always prefer 1t al the expense of another.
A broad mind can always find more
room in the crowded world than narrow
one.
There are some birds which it is much
better to have in the bush than in the
hand.
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friend only because they wish TO make
touch.
Take look at the city and see how
much 100000 well expended could i'm
prove it.
The business advantages OF San Fran
cisco are not greater than her holiday at
fractions.
The way OF the transgressor is hard
simply because he paves the way with cob
blestones.
Society girls are not precipitate about
Lenten penance, but they make high
bluff AT it.
You make stepping-stones for yourself
when you take the stones from your neigh
boris path.
The ottice-holder may complain of his
thorny office, but he is generally too stuck
on it to resign.
Those who have the most pride in San
Francisco as il is are the most eager to
make it better.
Every community should make idleness
harder than work for every man in it who
is capable OF work.
Some people are so stingy and so blind
that they see no beauty in moonlight ex-
eept that it saves gas.
Grover may be as good a fisherman as
ever, but he will never catch suckers with
mugwump bait any more.
Ask your neighbor If he can remember
anything about the Oriental war except the
peacock feather of Ii Hung Chang.
No matter how windy the speech of an
orator may be, the average man always
considers it eloquent if it blows his way.
One cause OF unhappy marriages is that
so many husbands and wives are more
welded 10 themselves than TO one another.
Society bellies often fail in the matrimon-
ial market because they flirt with ten men
ten per cent each instead OF loving one man
at par.
1t was rather hard on Ii Hung Chang
that he lost his yellow Jacket before winter
began and gets 1t back again Just as spring
is coming in.
1t is foolish heiress who regards a for
eign nobleman as an attractive novelty
since there are so many of them on the
bargain-counter.
Since there was so much fuss and folly
over the Gould-Castellane wedding. inst
think what would happen if there should
be a divorce suit
The politician is known from the states
man by the fact that he regards local an
preparations as the only appropriate
thing IS in politics.
Patriotism may be eager to patronize
home industry, but if the industry doesn't
advertise its existence the patriotism will
never know where to catch on.
AS result of the immigration OF Swedes
and Norwegians, it is said that there are
more men trained as sailors living in Min
nesota than in all New England.
If the anarchists would quit trying to
abolish law and set about trying to get rid
OF the Lawmakers, they might strike bust
ness men as good crowd to join.
Some New York women are talking of
organizing a school of lectures for hus-
bands with the idea probably of giving a
superior instruction TO the home course
Manufacturers who are seeking to build
up home market for home products
should not overlook the fact that the best
way to do it is to advertise in home
papers.
1t is astounding TO learn that the ad-
mirers of James G. Blaine in Maine have
not vet succeeded in raising more than $50
TO erect a monument to him, and that they
have now applied to the Legislature for