The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20
ALMOST
Incidents Of Every Day Life Which Very
Few People Stop to Think About on
Account OF Their Littleness

All this cry about birds feathers IN
hats is wearisome bosh.-To be consist.
ent the sentimentalist should object to
the wearing of gloves made Of the skin
of an "innocent kid And furs strip.
ped from the sbacks Of mink, sable
aud other beautiful amin ,ls.-They
should also eat nothing but vegetables.
Its no worse to wear the feathers
than ii Is to eat the animal.-Tbe mar.
BILE season is again on among the small
boy. But, boys you should not play
marbles 1t is bad .-Ify you do you will
learn bad words.-You say event."
"pix," "roundces," ''dubs" and other
wicked words But it don't make
much difference what the men do
though They can trade or swap
horses on Sunday, go hunting and
shoot rabbits and birds, go fishing and
drink water ~ out of a bottle, or co
most any old thing But boys must be
gOOd.-If you a get out on Sunday
and make a dollar it is all right, but to
eneagein the low vulgar amusement
OF playing marbles.-A Kansas editor
is in a heap Of trouble He recently
printed an item stating that a certain
resident, whose name he did not give
better stop kissing the hired girl
The next day twenty men called and
stopped the paper and accused the ed.
itor of meddling with their domestic
affairs .-That's usually the case.-n
an attempt is made to give someone a
little dig" there are generally all the
way from ten to a hundred around the
next day to confess that they too are
guilty Did you ever notice how anus
ing it is to watch some young ladies
while talking into a telephone.-The
bows and gesticulations are very fore.
IDLY received at the o.her end OF the
wire.-Also the bewitching smile and
the pretty POULAND, last but not
least the quicker that appears on the
lips when the goodbye" comes
We are not positive of the truth of this
but it was so reported to us by a mar
who processes to have made "A careful
study of the subiect.-Did you ever no.
tice that in the spring when the young
peoples fancy lightly turn to thoughts
of love it gives some old gossips some
Thing to talk about.-Ihis spring has
been no eXception.-The worst of it Is
that nothing is too mean for them to
say.-They appear to take great de-
light in repeating a story that is in.
tended to besmirch the character of
some young oma or man.-Every
time q story is repeated it is stretched
and in n days time a young lady's
or a young mans reputation will be
transformed from a spotless white to
take on the appearance of q printing
office towel.-rhe reputation and char.
acter of anyone is neither n football or
Il brickbat.-By law you cannot handle
it to suit yourself.-No two or three
old smut mills a "croney" together
like the toothless old hags or witches
in the cave of Macbeth and consign a
persons moral standing to the ash
pile.-Shun them always and give no
credencs to their stories a I'd presnmp.
tions.-Try and make them believe
that that they have fallen several de.
grees in your estimation for repeating
stories which you know have no foun.
dation and only besmirch someone's
character may, il things keep up,
publish a gossip column.-If VI do
anyone cal write up and send in any
story that is told them, together with
the names Of all parties mentioned in
the story, and who told 1.-THE writer
need not necessarily give his or her
name,-Jus. give the name OF the
party who tells the story We would
have to have some authority to pro-
tcct Us from libel suits.
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