The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-04-28

When a friend is i'll is the time to
show of what stuff genuine friendship
is made.
A mans amiability rarely stands the
test Of an upsetting of any of his cher
ished plans.
1t is funny to listen to the understood
men talking of their valor if war should
be declared.
When woman's face is her fortune,
advancing years mean certain bank
ruptcy.
And soon the strawberry festival will
put on airs of superiority with the chat
ing dish party.
Very few women can cultivate q TO-
mantle affection for a man who eats
with his knife.
The plainest sort of an absolutely
well-kept skirt is superior to an expen
siye but frayed one.
We had the real gentle spring week
or so ago; we are now having touch
of autumn.
There is one secret a woman can al
ways keep and that is the one her mir
ror tells her.
Black silk skirts can never be called
pretty after they have collected sundry
layers of dust.
The shad is not as popular as SEINE
other fish and he knows it too. He
feels it in its bones.
There are times when we grow tired
Of everything and everybody, but par
ticularly of ourselves.
The man with the little tripping
walk is not apt to make the world ring
with his heroic deeds.
Poor Mr.. Henpeck doesn't know
which he prefers, to have his wife read
his mind or speak hers.
Camden generally shows itself in the
freedom with which one admits the
faults of others.
The corkscrew curl aud corkscrew it.
self are among the possessions of the
really up-tO-date girl.
The woman who has lost good hus
band shouldn't grieve half as much az
the one who still has bad enc.
There is method in pale girl carry
ing a red umbrella even more palpablt
than her desire to keep off the rain.
The spring house cleaning makes III
wonder how on earth we ever came tc
gather such lot of rubbish aboutus.
Isn't it forlorn to know that ytU
have forgotten something, yet for the
life of you can't tell what You have
forgotten?
1t is not always the man that stands
before the swell hotel with toothpick
in his mouth that has had his dinner
there's
| Conoo WOMAN ora oo AuataJ whom
they undertake to endorse check as
though they were singing the own
death warrant.
Lovers1quarrels may make the par
Elephants happier in the making up, but
they leave their scar, nevertheless.
Some Grape wells are worn SO coquet-
tishly that no enc would ever think
they were intended to be evidences of
grief.
The sense of work done is apparently
as satisfactory to the average person as
a sense of its being we'll dene.
It seems almost as though there had
been death in the family when the
clock on which you usually depend
stops ticking.
There is nething left to the magma
ton in the new spring hat. Every
thing that is possible to crowd on it is
there.
Many man wis hes war would break
cut during house cleaning time. It
would give him such a splendid excuse
for staying away from home.
True love shows itself in a tender
thoughtfulness IN time of trouble rath-
or than in a'dispesition to run away and
wait until the sun shines out again.
1t does not follow that because the
cakewalk is the current society diver
sion that the prize pastry must neees-
sarily be currant cake.
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