The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1901-01-04
Editorial and Otherwise.


A good neighbor is a good morrow.
1t is easy to poke another mans fire.
1t is bad to lean against falling wall.
There is no need to fasten bell to
fool.
n To friend's house the road is never
long.
Slander expires at good woman's
door.
After one that earns comes one that
wastes.
Somebody ought to invent a laughing
cure.
The ankle skirt is now worn by the
ladies.
1t is wise woman who can accept
correction gracefully.
1t is a well-bred man that is as courte-
Gus to his wife as to strangers.
He that lies down with dogs will get
up with fleas.
In the bright lexicon of youth, there
Is no such word as fail.
Tell them that you saw me Christmas,
but you did not see me drunk.
Worry is a greater enemy to the face
than smallpox.
He who would make fool of himself
will find many to help him.
The female compositor is certainly a
girl of the period.
A schoolboy says there are too many
switches on the road to knowledge.
Why it is we can never see our own
duty quite SO plainly as that Of others?
While they ate, drank and were merry,
they did not forget the empty dinner
pail.
Grover, though hopelessly lost in the
shuttle during the campaign, is now very
much about.
If you don't want to know what q
mans wife is like, study his taste in 9th
er women.
Some of the ancients knew q lot. The
ancient Hindoo women had to pray to
their husbands.
Love makes the world go round only
when the lovers are intoxicated with
happiness.
Practical christianity is when you
cheerfully forgive the person who treads
on your corn.
The simple touch of sympathetic
heart bears more riches than tons of
plate or silver.
Many people who are always getting
their feelings hurt mean that their self
esteem has been injured.
An old topper says he envies acorns
because they always remain in their
cups until they drop.
There are some men who would be
worth lot more to the world IL they
weren't in 1t.
Ananias was great man, because
there weren't any elections then for men
to practice on.
If woman ever really did have neck
like swans, all the men would run
whenever they saw her.
Many hundred dollars worth of fire.
works went up in smoke here during the
Christmas holidays.
Intelligent people make many blum
ders because they never believe the
world as stupid as it is.
Love pleases more than marriage for
the reason that romance Is more inter.
esting than history.
You run the risk Of being disguised II
you pry into the processes Of cookery,
government or justice.
When man and girl pull a wishbone
he always tries to look "meaningly" at
her and she always tries hard to blush.
Every woman has longing to know
just how much her husband would take
OH when the doctor told him she was
going to die.
Some old maid has now gotten up a
story that baby biting on the rubber
nozzle Of a milk bottle will make II
grow to chew tobacco.
"White coffin nails" is q very appro.
pirate name given to cigarettes, for they
have proven just that in the case Of
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An Atchison girl is always referred to
rs "the late Miss Blank" not because
she is dead, but for the reason that she
is never on time.
The value Of the Christmas gift-mak.
ing does not lie in the cost, but in the
real honesty back Of the good wishes sc
generally expressed as mere form.
The average man doesn't get married
because he loves little children. What
he gets married for is because he thinks
he is going to get fed better.
When one woman calls on another
woman for the first ten minutes neithe,
of them says anything that the Other
can remember, because each one is stu
dying the others dress.
When q poor young man marries I
rich girl all women say he Is mercenary
but when > rich young man marries ,
poor girl, they say such . love is th'
most beautiful thing In the world.
A bright woman told me once tha
| when choosing . sweetheart . woman
pays moro regard to what other womel
say about the man Of her choice than Il
her own opinion Of him.
An lndisputahle Fact. THAT man onl,
Il truly brave who fears nothing 20 mucl