Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-07-01

Honesty Is better than policy.
Electric fans are putting on airs.
Generally come out on tOp-Hair.
Summer boarders are being taken
In.
Bathing suits will be shorter before
long.
The hot weather show is often a
frost.
Everything's all right to a dead
man.
It is hard to tell who is borrowing
money.
Better be not at all than not be
honest.
Kleptomaniacs draw the line at TAX
ing hints.
Weighed and found wanting-the
fish story.
Out of sight, out Of mind-the blind
imbecile.
An uplifting prOfessiOn-running an
elevator.
A drum is never a delusion, although
it may be a snare.
Charity covers a multitude Of sins
that don't deserve 1t.
When a man realizes the curse Of
rum be swears on.
Some men take what is in sight and
hustle for more.
Natural headaches are not in 1t with
the acquired kind.
Fortune seldom knocks at the door
Of the chronic kicker.
Don't make a name for yourself by
adopting gu alias.
Tell your troubles to other people
or they'll tell you theirs.
An alarm clock is something not 80
alarming as it sounds.
The Polar bear at the zoo is signing
for home and mother.
Some merchants won't advertise
even on a circus elephant.
It's strange but true that floating
debts win sink a corporation.
A man only has his hair cut when
he doesn't want it any longer.
The wise girl never distributes too
many latch keys to her heart.
The people who do the most grumb-
ling seldom try to improve things.
Frugality consists in knowing how
to get others to supply your wants.
No one aver heard Of love giving a
locksmith the laugh after marriage.
No, Cordelia, an adept in pyrogra-
ply isn't necessarily a successful pie
maker.
Some men are high liVers because of
their inability to pay ground-foor
rents.
Some men stand on their dignity
until they give you the impression of
being stilted.
1t is better to hitch your wagon to a
star than to wrap yourself up in a wet
blanket.
Most men are unable to ride in the
head carriage of the procession until
they die.
It takes a mighty good speller to
write with someone looking yer his
shoulder.
An elderly man very much dislikes
to have a fippant young woman call
him baby.
People who keep diaries for any
length of time are those who keep
them for sale,
An artistic temperament and a bank
account are seldom on speaking terms
with each other.
The man who attends strictly to his
own business soon gets the reputation
of being eccentric.
There is this difference between q
house and a oman A coat of paint
improves the house.
Action don't speak louder than
words in the case of the fellow who
shoots off his mouth.
Just 50 much worrying must be done /.
If the husband is a ''good fellow" the
wife worries for two.
The last straw that put the human
camel down and out has g mint julep
st the other end of It.
Strenuous efforts by some people
are noticeable only when they begin
TO pry into the affairs of others.
Some people are so busy worrying
about tomorrow that they have no
time for anything today.
The man who orders spring lamb
must sometimes expect to have the
wool pulled over his eyes.
Overhead al the musicale-'He
looks like a violinist, doesn't he?"
eyes; he even has bow legs"
There are exactly as many different
ways of being fooled by a woman az
there are women in the world.
It seems a pity that about the only
wav for a man to learn what kind OF
woman he ought to marry Is to marry
her.
Hosx-"The paper says we may
now expect some sticky weather. "
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