The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1901-09-06
Editorial and Otherwise.
FOUR soul cannot eat by proxy.

speech.
A dog in the manger deserves the
mango.
Floating debts should be paid in cur.
rent coin.
To make tall man appear short, strike
him for loan.
The successful teamster always does a
driving business.
The man who reduces salaries is sort
of revenue cutter.
Don't be down-hearted because you
ore up against it.
More people squint with their brains
than with their eyes.
An uncertain temper is better than
one that is certainly bad.
A man can't make man of himself if
he has nothing to work on.
Why should a man who il. not an ideal
man, demand an ideal wife!
The dividends of sin come back in the
same coin as the investments.
Once there was man who never told
a lie about the salary he got.
God gives riches to our hands when
our hearts are not fixed on them.
When young man with money tells
lies, the people call it "enthusasm."
The optimistic pessimist rejoices that
some poor devil is worse off than he is.
The world may owe every man liv-
ing, but it takes hustler to collect 1t.
One sign of a meek man is his hat; ii
is always two or three sizes too large for
him.
A man may forget to wind his watch,
but the flight Of time goes on just the
same.
| Girls are the pure, clear water of So
cial beverages; widows the rich, red
wine.
There is a whole lot of comfort in re-
fiecting on the misfortunes OF youl
friends.
Unless girl has pretty hands she sci.
dom uses them for the purpose of hiding
her face.
The fellow with an expensive wife
realizes that little earning is danger.
Gus thing.
Itwas Boston damsel who referred
to bowlegged man as a parenthetical
pedestrian.
Perhaps your dull-season might be
sharper if you would hone it up with the
advertising strap.
The crooked path of life is never so
very crooked unless you insist on stay
ing in it too long.
1t would be a good thing If people
thought less of their ancestors and more
of their progeny.
You can usually tell what man had
for breakfast by looking at the front of
his negligee shirt.
Heat expands and cold contracts; tina t
is probably why the days are longer in
summer than in winter.
OF what use is girls elocution to her?
She is never picked out as orator for o
Fourth of July celebration.
When you make a date with a girl
over the phone you end it with the en-
gagement ring-off.
The imaginary troubles of life are
often more worrying to soul and body
than many of our real ills.
II women were al careful about their
appearance after marriage as they are
before, their would be fewer matrimoni-
al failures.
Last years straw berry crop in the
United States is said to have amounted
to $sO,OOO,OCO, and the grape crop $780,
900.
The war against the mosquito goes
merrily on, but up to date the mos
quitoes seem to be holding their own in
good shape
Give woman baby to coo over, some
underclothes to sew on, and novel to
cry over, and she is pretty close to her
ideal of happiness
Colonel William j. Bryan has pur-
chased the controlling interest in tract
of oil lands covering several hundred
acres near Spring Valley, Wyo.
Too many of our citizens are afraid to
cast their bread upon the water unless
they are assured before hand that it will
come back in q few days q full grown
sandwich.
A new kind of tombstone has lately
been introduced in Colorado Springs. II
is Of bronze. A lid may be lifted show
ing printed matter and photograph Of
the deceased.
When we are young we arc slavishly
employed i'm procuring something
whereby we may live comfortably wher
We grow old, and when we are old W.
perceive it is too late to live as we pro
posed.
Many disastrous wrecks and failures
in life are to be accounted for, not fo
lack Of enterprise and energy, but be
cause the too self-reliant spirit does no
listen to the dictates of prudence ant
good Judgment
When we are in the company Of seusi
BILE men we ought to be doubly caution
OF talking too much, lest we lose to-
good things, their good opinion and on
improvement,for whatw we have to 50.
we know, but what they have to say W
know not.
II the average woman had the choic
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