The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-06-15
THE FEMININE OBSERVER.

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when woman is i'll.
The road to ruin is bordered by tho
moss attractive yerdure.
Some one must smoke herrings, for
they are always smoked"
An unmade bed emphasizes the
character of the entire house.
The hurt that lives longest in mem
ory is the unintentional one.
The furnace man now seeks q posi-
tion with the ice company.
The bitterest troubles generally arise
from the most trivial incidents.
The character of a family can pretty
easily be read from the weekly wash.
Debt is an old man of the sea, who
meyer grows any more feeble.
Isn't it strange that gray day has
the power to make woman blue?
There is no man living who isn't in
his heart just a little bit afraid of his
wife.
Misfortunes never come singly, but
we rarely hear of favors rolling in in
lunches.
The veil habit becomes firmly estab-
lished with a woman after she has
reached 30.
How happy one would be if the ele-
ment of ennui were forever banished
from our lives.
Nothing is so exasperating as the
memory of misfortune that was all our
own fault.
The smudge from q black glove can
convert beautiful woman into a YER
liable horror.
A man may be in the wrong a thou
sand times, but he seldom, if ever, says
forgive me-"
Frills are so fashionable that wo-
man can be forgiven if her temper gets
rutlled at times.
We are so perverse that we rarely
like dessert until there isn't enough
of it to go round.
1t is rarity to come across q really
pretty woman who isn't photographed
in every new frock.
A man may lack all other virtues,
but if he possess courage a woman will
forgive him the rest.
When a man begins to talk about his
conscience it is almost certain that he
is suffering from Indigestion.
Some of the new frocks are in so
many sections that they look as though
they were falling to pieces.
Some Of the new coats are SO much
cut away that you wouldn't know they
were meant to be coats.
If doctors we're to present their bills
before patients get well there would be
very few chances of recovery.
The woman who says she just jumped
into her shirt waist looks as though
she were indeed telling the truth.
The tinkle of the ice in the pitcher is
the pleasantest music when the ther
mometer is on the upward move.
| The room in the house that you ex
pected least to enjoy is the one tina
7 generally turns out to be your favorite
; The inanimate objects that woman
loves give her as much comfort and no
half the trouble as the animate ones.
' 1t is not necessary, but it often hap
pens, tnat we make fools of ourselves
I every time we have the opportunity.
I If there ever was woman who reall,
: thought herself ugly, we might expec
to hear of her suicide at any time.
1t is foolish for woman to recogniz
;, a present fashion as an old one revived
!, 1t speaks entirely too much for he
years of experience.
Advertisements differ from books o,
disease in that in the former you alway
9 read of something you want, while i
the other you see nothing desirable.
g The trouble about liquor is that
/ makes a man bold enoug Oh to call o
d the very people whom he would mt
e have know for the world that he drinks
Eo-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
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II Thus far /, ,661 soldiers of the Cuba