Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-09-09

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lte noW crazy a man q
be over o any woman till they are
married.
A chronic liar lie less dangerous than
the liar who has spasmodic attacks OF
%veracity.
A gossip is usually willing to be a
liar 80 is the man who is always com
planning.
Many a smart man looses out when
be bumps up against an ordinary
mortal.
Too many men waste valuable time
talking about the things they are GO
ing to do.
We wish there was a cigar so bad
that smoking it would cure q man of
the habit.
The pawnbroker doesn't have to
shut up as long as people will put up
with him.
Don't climb 90 high that the world
can't see you when it wantst to r, move
the ladder.
Your bluff has a tendency to run
out, and ever so often it is necessary
to enew IL.
An honest confession may be good
for the soul, but it Is apt to sever
friendships.
We are told that figures meyer lie,
and yet we don't always believe a fig
ire Of speech.
Some fellows work for all they are
worth; but the trouble Is they are not
worth much.
A 80.cent clock has n advantage
over a 81, 900, 900 corporation; it's hands
never strike.
A real good friend lie one who will
say you are sensitive when you are
qusrrelsome.
Any mar who is determined to en-
Joy life, whether he does or not, is a
true optimist.
1t tales mighty good times to put an
extra dollar in the pocket of a clerk or
or bookkeeper.
The agents say that the towns are
worked to death, and they will move
TO bhe country.
ga courtship," says the Cynical
Bachelor, els generally the calm be-
fore the storm"
An enthusiastic meeting is that of
two girl chums who haven't seen each
other for an hour.
No woman should put her POPULAR
ty to the test by taking her children
and going visiting.
When a girl is very attentive to
married men the women say she has
married -men'i-tis.
A bachelor imagines he's a born dip
lomat because he is able to settle his
affairs out of court
1t is a good sign when a community
iudorses husbands and wives being in
love with each other.
The average woman likes to be told
she is sensitive, but she objects to be-
ing called %''touchy."
Girls know a heap more before they
are married than they are willing to
let on they know after.
No, Maude, dear, the fellow who
parts his hair in the middle isn't nee.
essarily well balanced.
A woman lie always willing to share
q man with some other woman If he
isn't willing to be shared.
In her own house a woman gets
homesick when somebody else who
ought to be there Is away.
If oil companies could begin at the
bottom and drill up the prospectus
gusher would lose his job.
A man can sometimes gain his point
in an argument by allowing the other
fellow to talk himself out.
Tommy-"POp, what Is tact?' Tom
my's Pop-"Tsct, my son, is the art Of
knowing what not to do"
It is said that every tennis player
can play the piano enough to disturb
the other people at a hotel.
The people always admire loyalty to
friends. Why don't you do more Of it
and become more popular?
Don't think because a man is taking
lessons on the harp that he doesn't
expect to live much longer.
You can't always tell by a woman's
cold exterior that he hasn't got a
sparkle like iced champagne.
Those who take the most pride In
doing a thing by sheer instinct pay the
penalty for It in cold Judgement.
"Time will tell, +" remarked the Wise
Guy. eyes, If a woman doesn't tell
drst," murmured the Simple Mug.
After the dance is over how many
men try to make an entirely new set
OF arrangements with the hddlerl
When q girl Is flirting with 3 man
she calls him her suitor; when she
means business he Is her plain beau.
A man never knows what be can do
until he tries-and II he tries the
chances are he will regret it later.
A Texas preacher says that some
newspaper mems only chance Of get
ting into heaven lie on a press ticket.