The Red Cloud chief., 1901-02-22
NUMBER X
PICKED UP FRESH.

~ Iutu 10 always "'s'oS w 49,
up his turn in n dental parlor than in n
barber shop.
Tee much dreaded spring house
cleaning day is already beginning to
cast its shadows about.
The quickest thing in the world l.
light and the slowest thing is n person
who owes subscription.
II II woman constantly keeps her
husband IN hot water she alone is to
blame for his being soaked.
II there hal been n dozen Adams in
stead of one, probably Eve wouldn't
have lirted with a serpent.
Women are said to be always looking
lin n glass. Men always want some
thing in n glass when they look into 1t.
When n woman says TO her husband
"this is a pretty time OF night for you
to come in," she doesn't mean a word
OF It.
Nothing pleases n woman better than
to have her husband return from q trip
and say N haven't had a thing tit to eat
since | left no ne"
Judging from the size OF some breach
OF promise suits we are led to believe
that in woman's estimation man is
I, worth something after all.
@ A corset agent remarks that corsets
have the same effect on women that
rum has on men. The harm in each
@ case is the same. The inevitable result
It is getting tight"
d Some folks ideas Of christianity are
that il they go to church and prayer
h meeting regularly they can do pretty
re mnch as they please between times ana
the Lord will be satisfied.
re 1t takes n girl about four hours long
10 err to clean the front windows OF IA
house than it does the back ones. That
T. is, il il is the hired girl instead of the
90 daughter Of the house who is doing the
W washing.
20 1t is now said that Mrs. Carrie Ma
:, tons first husband died from alcohol
~ ism. Why didn't the poor fellow just
y, take a gun and blow his brains out and
be done with it, instead Of taking such
an indirect suicidal II ute.
Those who reside in glass houses
n should be tho very last ones to delapi'
az date their neighbours windows; but, al
ks a matter Of fact they are the very ones
who most persistently persist In peg
al ging away at their fellow men.
The usual spring agitation Of cnrfew
OK ordinance is being heard. The bes'
tu,few ordinance Is one that is adopted
~. in each family, where the old man act
cd as mayor and city council, night watci
and calaboose keeper; where fine ant
punishment 20 together, and where
good hickory is feared more than any
thing else.
,., A learned Judge has divided lega
d~runkards into three classes; the sim
Pile, the complex and the compound
The simple d%runkards are those VIII,
are. merely in u state Of exhilaratiol
and can walk straight. The complies
SIX are the incapable ones, and the com
pound are the disorderly and incapable
ing ones.
OF An ankle corset has been ~invente,
for the support of weak ankles. II i
now in order for some philantrophis
the to invent a brain corset for the use o
ike weak minded people who wear Ions
hair parted in the middle, smoke vii,
cor "ciga- woots' and always have a mouth
vas full Of smutty remarks to hurl at som
young lady who passes them.
" An exchange describes a cigarette II.
n roll of paper, tobacco and drugs with
a big hre at one end and a bad smell
TO and a fool at the other end. Some o
its chief ~enjoyments are condensed
nightmare, fits. cancer of the lips anC
stomach, spinal meningitis, softenin,
ing of the brain, funeral procession ant
,ut family shrouded in gloom.
Boys with caps on the back of their
oy. heads and long hair hanging dowI
do their f~oreheads, and cigarettes an
90, smutty stories in their mouths, ar,
cheaper than old worn out shoes. No
ac' body wants them at any price. Mel
for will not employ them and the girls will
nd not marry them. They are not wortl
their keeping to anybody and they will
not keep themselves. IL any boy VIII,
h happens to read this answers t
y this description let him take a look a
~ him self and do what his conscienc
says is the best thing to do.