The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-07

leaves, just az the yused to trim we'd
ding cakes.
Some men, when talking to woman
over telephone. have such earess-
ing voice that II amounts to almost a
hug.
Every woman takes as much time In
getting off street car as II she thought
her destination was as far as the car
expected to go.
Some friendships from the start are
as uncertain as that existing between
one woman who owns a cat, and an
other who owns a bird
Preachers and lawyers are great on
quoting poetry.
No one prepares for a storm until
the storm arrives.
Most of us object to having every
thing we do blamed on us.
If you make figures before election
people will know what bad guesser
you are.
When some people get into trouble
they enlist lot of people to help
them out.
When farmers meet each other on
the road, they are as apt to visit too
long as town women.
No child Is really being raised pet
unless its mother gives it hammer
and looking glass to play with at
the same time.
AS rule, soldiers are fond Of mu-
sic, but none of them care for war
songs.
A common plug has some advant-
ages. There are no five-cent cigars
named for him.
When a man has a big bunch Of
railroad passes, he takes great pride in
showing them.
Our idea of poor advertising is that
obtained by a college sending glee
club on the road
In the estimation of the public a
man is richer just after his death than
at any other time
When a man cannot attract atten-
ton in any other way, he can always
go without a coat in cold weather.
A mother is never entirely recon
ciled to her sons marriage until she
has become attached to his children.
What a comfortable world this
would be- if people didn't take such
delight in making trouble for each
other!
If man follows the family clock
in taking train, he will find when he
goes to the depot that he is going to-
morrow, when he really intended to go
yesterday.
When a man stops and wipes his
feet before entering a restaurant, the
men ia the restaurant look at each
other and smile: They know he is
henpecked, all right.
II natural gas continues to spread,
there viii finally be more plumbers
in the state than farmers. In future
political campaigns. politicians will
not inquire, What will the farmers
do?" but their inquiry will be, What
will the plumbers do?"
farmer living six miles west Of
town says that last night he heard a
commorion in front Of his house. Co
ing out, he found a man under an auto
mobile. AS the farmer came out, the
automobile owner said TO him: You'd
better get you one Of these things"
II you are selfish, and like to get
along in the world, you cannot afford
TO be dishonest II you want to make
money, the surest way TO accomplish
that result is to be reliable and hon
orahle- The preaching done for cor
rect life Is not in the interest OF re-
ligiou, but for your own personal good
1t may be iuperCineut to make sug-
gestIOus TO ministers about funeral
sermons, but we have remarked 4 good
many years that people complain Of
long funeral sermons; they complain
bitterly when minister tries, by
means Of i funeral sermon, to convert
L lot OF people who DO not ofteu hear
preaching When a man does not hear
preaching regularly, it IS not because
he doesn't know what it IS. Preachers