Mesa free press., 1900-07-13
AoMEsPUN PHILOSOPHY.

Not half the people know what real
work is like.
You must fight with some people be
fore they will treat you decently.
Pictures of kin hanging in the parlo
look dutiful, but they can't be classed
as decorative.
Every old woman should have grand
children to keep her from becoming
maudlin over a cat.
Every man who is some distance from
home seems to have packed the wore
prominent in his valise.
If young man is late, he is accused
of letting his love grow cold, and aftel
he is married it is his dinner.
Some people approach you with al
the shyness Of schoolboy and then
ask you for your pocketbook.
When a young man has the mandolin
fever complicated with the girl fever
there is mighty little hope for him.
This is said to be practical age, bu,
it is as easy to-day as it.ever was for q
girl to fall In love with poor man.
By the time boy has learned to say
"thank you" for candy without being
prompted, people stop giving it to him
If babies are Gods best gifts from
heaven, occasionally. fault could bs
found with the Lord for being too gen
erous.
Some people never open the book-cast
except when they want to prove thai
the bright thing some friend said wa,
stolen.
The stories that end with declaring
that 'they lived happily ever after
were evidently written the day after
the marriage.
If a man does his whole duty to man
kind, cuts no ice for himself through
stopping to encourage younger mer
just starting out.
A school teacher who successfully
controls fifty children has perfec
right to entrtain contempt for parent!
who can't manage one.
One Of the funny things in this WORLD
is the expression on the average per
sons face when listening to the per
formers at a musicale"
When a man tells guest that he ant
his family are ''just plain folks" hi
daughters get mad and look as if the.
would like to enter denial.
AS proof of the superior intelligence
Of woman, what man could go off tt
church leaving a roast in the oven, an(
come home remembering the text?
The man who doesn't believe tha
any one in this cold world takes an in
terest in him should come down tow1
wearing pair Of pants that are tot
short.
When a man compliments some othe
woman upon her pretty clothes, hi
wife wonders if she is getting all th'
credit she deserves for her economy IL
wearing old ones.
Unless man raises such row whe1
his wife sells an old foot-stool that th'
neighbors send for the police, she will
become emboldened and sell all the fur
niture in the house.
We have noticed that after a woman
passes 40, when she wants to attract 1
mans attention she gives him vicious
punch, while younger woman will
give him a scared nudge.
When a man gets off the train at ,
little country flag station he has th
feeling that the rest Of the passengers
who are probably going on to a bi!
city, are laughing at him.
1t is a popular impression that when
ever stepparents look at forest the.
think how many switches could be Gu
off the trees, and there is no use IL
them hoping that it will ever be differ
ent.
A woman hasn't the true shopper
instinct unless she buys at least thre
articles every time she goes down tow
for which she has no present use, bu
which may 'come in handy" SOM
time.
When a man begins to hunt up hi
old father in order to pay him littl
tender attention, it indicates that h
has heard his own son disrespectfull.
referring to his father as the "olt
man."
What a Baby Can Do.
It can wear out pair Of kid shoe
in twantv-fOur hours