The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-06
OBSERVATIONS.

The average Kentuckian is abJv
the high-waier mark
How easy to resist temptation
which doesn't tempt.
Every woman is secretly proud 0
her guests who dress we'll.
Gossip is always short lived un
less it Is poorly ventilated.
Experience i a dear teacher but
she is worth all she c sts.
It's never too hot in summer OF
cc.d in winter for the ice man.
The less heart a man puts iato q
task he more labor it requires.
When the King loses he alw lys
comes within an ace OF winning.
People who drown their troubles
usually preserve them in alcohol.
There's a deal of temper mas
querading as frankness in this
world.
The cup Of happiness usually
springs leak before it begins to
run over.
Satan never gets tired of jollyine
people who imagine they are prize
beauties.
The joke you play on another fell
low is mean trick when he plays
it on you.
Some girls set their caps for hus.
bands and Others set their capital
for titles.
The tongue is sometimes mightiel
than a bullet, though it may moi
speed as true.
We never heard of husbands and
wives quarreling about which loved
the other most.
A girl in love is often unable to
express her thoughts, but it's quite
different afterward.
It's always tough on the tigh
rope walker when he steps from The
straight and narrow path.
How many people would be oil
speaking terms if everybody sale
what they really thought?
When a man says he does no
feel at all like himself some of hi
acquaintances are glad of it.
Some actors are like some egss-
they 90 upon the stage when they
are no good for anything else.
The foolishness of the wise mar
is delicious; the foolishness of tn,
fool is something to flee from.
Many a man is ont in the bacl
yard bemoaning his luck when for
tune knocks at the front door.
], In nine cases out of ten the faith
ler in-law of the man who claims t
be self-made, is RESPONSIBLE for th'
Job.
The older one grows the more on,
wonders if people ever do arrive a
what may be called years of discre
ton.
One never so fully appreciates
broad, live people "a after a seanc'
with craven images OF the Opposite
sort.
Some people who take pride il
never changing their mind MAKE
one wonder if it isn't a case of sou
grapes.
When the girls are in doubt az t
whether visiting girls complexion
is real they take her wading anC
find out.
Probably the happiest day in th'
average farm RS life is when hi
best pig takes a So prize at the
county fair.
Whenever a girl begins to lecture
a young man on financial economy
he can safely ask her to name the
happy day.
How cooling it is to vanity to
think that most of Us will IL minage
somehow, some time to make asses
Of ourselves.
Families are generally the best
conducted in which the wife does
all the scolding. A mans scoldlne
does no good.
The wind may he tempered tc
the shorn lamb, but woman can
see it that way when Boreas re
moves the hat for which she has M
reliable anchorage.
An old bachelor says there is bu
one thing sweeter than loves younI
dream, and that is to wake up AM
find yourself still single.
i The maddest girl Of all is the ia
,vored feminine who not only cal
whistle, but does whistle (strongly
enough to be heard quarter Of
lmilel and then fails Ia etop the car