Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-09-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LSaulhS piySlclaHS are DeRlnnlng to
endorse the chewing of gum. They de-
clare pure gum healthful.
The jamestown Exposition Midway
is to be called 1.-The Warpath. In
this case, however, the war paint will
be worn by the squaws, not the braves.
New York Mail.
When live people are trying to do
something for the community, whether
it be little or big, everybody should
cooperate with the effort heartily and
promptly. -News-Leader.
A German proverb has it that what
three know will soon be known to
thirty" One of the Sagas' goes fur
ther than that. A couplet in it runs:
Choose one to trust-more seek not thou:
The world of Halfdan knows what three men
Know" News Leader.
Next to the wife-beater comes the
horse-beater, and it is to be regretted
we have one or two in this community.
A horse is the most noble and faithful
of animals, and the man who would
abuse his horse has something lacking
in his manhood Southampton Demo-
crat.
This is the way Colorado bachelor
POLITICALLY lays bouquet at the feet of
his best girl: ''There is gladness in her
glasses when she's glad, there is sad
ness IN her sadness when she's sad. But
the gladness of her glasses nor the sad
ness of her sadness is nothing to her
madness when she's mad. "-Harper's
Weekly.
An item Of news which has been go
ing the rounds of the press to the effect
that persons opening letters which had
been given them through mistake at
their respective postoffices would be
fined $500 is absolutely without founda-
tion. This correction is made at the
request of prominent postoffice official.
who was here last week. IN. N. News.
The only thing that old goat has got
against me is his head. He is like lots
of other people. You have to work
over time to get them in a good humor,
and what good are they when they are
in a good humor? Ill natured people
seem to require good deal of petting.
They will require some doctoring later
on, for bad tempers make bad stomachs
and hvers; and it is usually bad tempered
and egotistical people who go crazy. -
Buster Brown.
Young people lay up something. You
will need it when you are old and laid
up. Some folks never lay up anything
unless it is grudge; but grudges,- no
matter how choice and varied an as
sortment you may have accumulated,
will hardly keep you alive. Lay up
something for rainy day, even though
you have to borrow the umbrella. Lay
up for old age, and if you will lay up
for repairs occasionally, as ships do, old
age won't come on so rapidly as it
otherwise would. And then lay up
treasures in Heaven, which will last
you throughout eternity. Lay up some
thing. Orange Observer.
Josh Billings said, eff you wish to
train up child in the way it should
go you must walk once or twice that
way yourself" This matter of train
ing child is of grave Importance. A
word to the oysterman who expects his
boy to be successful in business-the
business ne himself has founded. The
boy is likely to walk in the footsteps
of the father, so let the father walk in
the right way. We have often heard
an old Chincoteague oysterman say,
Nothing beats doing right" Yes, a
man must be right to do right. Let
us for the sake of our children walk
the straight and narrow way. THE
Oysterman.
Large quantities of musk were mixed
in the mortar in the building of the
church of st. Sophia at Constantinople.
That perfume clings to the stones to
this day. A thousand years in its pas.
sage has not waited it away. Just so,
if we incorporate in our acts the Spiri,
of Christ; if our sacrifice to Him is like
Mary's of old, the fragrance of our en-
deavor will send down through all the
coming centuries, the fragrance that
will never die. Men, let there be the
spirit of charity in all our acts to on,
fellows, and it will be said of us wher
we have crossed over the dark river
''He being dead yet speaketh. '-Oys
terman.
Miss Margaret Schidu, of Cleveland
O., sent out invitations to twenty-thret
girl friends for a party in honor of hel
twenty-third birthday, for the 23d O.
September, at her home, % Eas
Twenty-Third street. She says it will
be "skiddoo" party. People hav.
joked with my name so much that In
going to have some fun myself" sait
Miss Schidu. ''There will be % candle,
on the birthday cake, souvenir card
lettered % will be given to % guests
: an orchestra of % pieces will play be