The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-06-04
GEMS FROM MAX O'RELL.
(New York American)

tThte MS cneerlul philosophy ana the
universal compass of his work
Women are roses. l always suspect
ed it from the thorns.
The key to success in life is the
knowledge OF the value of all things.
II all men were deaf, and all women
were blind, matrimony would stand a
much better chance of success.
Women are all actresses. What makes
actresses so fascinating aud attractive
to men is that they are women twice
over.
1t often requires head more solidly
screwed on the shoulders to bear a
great success than to stand a great mis-
fortune.
Everybody'runs after happiness but
nobody finds it, for the very simple
reason that happiness does not exist
unless you call it contentment.
Woman is an angel who may become
devil, a sister Of mercy who may
change to viper, ladybird who may
be transformed into stinging bee.
As long as there is one woman left on
the face of the earth, and one man left
to observe her, the world will be able
to hear something new about women.
When a woman says of her husband
"He is a wretch" she may still love
him; probably she does. When she
says ooh, he is a good sort"-poor fell
low.
Many men say they marry to make
an end but they forget that, if mar
riage is for them an end, it is o begin
ming for the women, and then-look
out.
There should be more Joy in the
heart of woman for a man who re-
mains in love with her than for hun
dred others whose admiration she may
obtain.
How many men have felt that, if their
wives had made as much preparation
for them as they had for all the stran-
gers present at the ball, they could
have fallen at their feet and worshipped
them.
A man who has been married enters
the kingdom of heaven OK officio, hav-
ing served his purgatory on earth but
if he has been married twice he is in.
variably refused admittance, as the so.
iourn of the seraphs is no place fol
fanatics.
Women we're not born to command
but they have enough inborn power tC
govern man who commands, and, as
rule, the best and happiest marriages
are those where women have most au
thority and where their advice is often
est followed.
, 1t would do most of us a great dea
of good always to keep in mind, or Il
J be now and then reminded of it, les
we should forget, that when we are gon,
the earth will not stop, but will contin
: ne her course around the sun. No on,
is indispensable in this world.
The time is coming, and coming at
, giants stride, when every child-bo,
or girl-will be made early to choos
the kind of work he or she best feel
ready to undertake to make q living
the time is coming when no povert
will stare in the face the woman VIII
can and is willing to work.
q People who laugh heartily are moral
because morality is cheerful. Writer
who make people laugh are the bes
!. moralists, the best educators of man
kind. Artemus Ward and Mard Twai
have been much greater benefactars G
! the human race than Thomas Carlyle
I Max Nordau and Emil Zola.
OF "Her Supreme and Magnificen
!. Majesty, Mrs. Jonathan, Queen of th
s United States, " as he characterized hel
!. Max O'Rell wrote; "She may be eve
: so learned, she is never q pedant; sh
h is and remains q woman in whose con
g pany o man feels at once at his ease,
sort of fascinating good fellow with a
the attributes of womanhood; littl
II OF coquette with suspicion of touc
OF blue stockings, but SO little. Sh
y loves dresses, and none puts them 0
better than she does"
Max O'Rell's love of children W,
equally boundless. "Oh," he wrot
one time, ''if / were the Master of ii
Universe / would see that every lit
child was happy" Then he related o
J. anecdote of a little one who, on bein
= informed that her friend had no gran'
n mother, said, with a glance of pit
g "You should get one"
5, "Dear people" said Max O'Rel
!. "who have not little girl to brightC
:. your home, let me give You the advi
le that my little friend above mention'
"a gave me about grandma-get one. 4"
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