Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-02-18

silence may % n koou huDhAlaAuto
for wisdom, but It's difficult for the
man who is short Of wisdom to keep
his mouth shut.
The thing that makes one woman
love another more than anything else
is to know that she Is better looking
than the other.
By looking closely the available
man may see upon the door Of the
grass widows heart this sign: "Don't
knock. Walk in"
Filiplnos object to the Chinese as a
competitive laborer. There are labor
unions In the Philippines already, and
they are strong.
"There are but few rich DOCTORS"
says a medical journal. This Is doubt
less dne to the fact that there are 80
many poor ones.
We have this much faith in human
nature: we will believe a man any
time except when he is denying that
he is to be married.
It is easier for a man to make love
to a woman when he doesn't want to
than to make her stop making love to
him when she wants to.
A woman would be suspicious of the
photograph of a mans own grand
mother II see found 1t hidden away
where he keeps his tobacco.
Either a stout woman can never
convinced her husband that she isn't
too fat or be a never convince her
that he does not think she is.
One Of the hardest things in the
world to remember is that IN addi-
tional rufle doesn't show as much on
a dress as 1t shows on the bin.
Every time q woman picks up atow-
ell it makes her husband shiver for
fear she is going to tie it around her
head and go to house cleaning.
When a dishonest man starts out to
do business with an honest man,
thinking be Is dishonest, he never can
get the tangle Strengthened out.
A man gives a woman just as much
as he sees ft, but demands that she
give him not only today and tomor-
row, but a clean slate for yesterday.
When a woman is converted the
people wait breathlessly for the test
of her control over her husband; will
she bring him into the fold with herr
No matter how innocent a man is
when he is travelling and gets his bag
mixed up with a strange woman's, he
can't go home and look his wife in the
eye.
Occasionally you will find you have
a friend who will sit up with you all
night ii you are sick, and gladly make
it three nights il you are delirious and
tell things.
1t depends on what you do when
you are out of bed whether early ris-
ing is beneficial or not. The world
would be better of il some people
never got up.
Somehow when a newly married
couple begins welded life by spending
the evening reading poetry, every
one knows that their happiness will
not last long.
A man dressed up for a masquerade
ball feels like q sealed sardine box,
but even at that, he is like open-work
stockings to what a woman is every
day In her life.
Instead of spending money on a for
tune teller to peer into the future,
look at those about ten years older
than you, whose lives have been much
the same as yours.
The old saying, "The hand that
rocks the cradle is the hand that rules
the world" viii have to be revised to
an automatic nurse.
It is pretty safe to say that the fam
lily pocketbook is not carried by the
wife Of the man who keeps his seat in
the car while women with babies in
their arms have to stand.
If three men sat over whisky and
cigars and talked OF the things that
three women will over their embroid-
cry, the skin would scorch off their
faces from red hot blushas.
If New York would quit building
heavenward, leave of playing mole
near the surface and direct their ener-
gy and anger straight down, they
might 500 strike all the heat they
need.
A contemporary is ungsllant enough
to state in cold print the fact that
Adelina Patti, who is preparing to
make one more farewell tour OF the
United States, has 9 9 sixty sum-
mers
You may be honest with others,
but are you honest with yourself2
When you lack success, and it is
clearly your own fault, do you admit
the fact, and endeavor to apply the
remedy.
A Territory man sent the following
testimonial to q patent medicine
house: "Dear Shiny wife took a
bottle Of your medicine and died. /
am now married again, Please send
me another BOTTLE"
A woman writer says "there is no
reason why q woman should not sup
port a husband, If she thinks he is
worthy" Yes, but the kind of hus-
bands women support are not worthy,
no matter what they may think about
It..
John Wanamaker, the great Phila-
delphia merchant says: "No power on
earth is so strong to build up a town
/ a. mall ne a $780, va-n amA-a.s.a1