Middletown transcript., 1906-08-18
ITEMS OF INTEREsr 10 EVERYONE
Little Paragraphs That viii Interest Every
Member of the Household

A<atus "a 0Si dPMs Audt Win interest &lefY
Member of the Household
i Japan gets $4,000 recruits yearly for
her regular army.
When the average man does you
favor be never lets you forget it.
The most difficult Of animal products TO
find substitute for is whalebone.
After working hard to get money man
has to work twice as hard to keep 1t.
The batiess man is the latest fad on the
Pacific ceast. The hatless man is as
proper in the street as is the hatless
woman.
President Roosevelt's address to his
supporters before his last election was
printed in no fewer than twelve different
languages.
Ii has been decided that young man
can marry on $40 week, hut Chicago
authority says it is hard TO find girls who
are earning that.
The Kansas philosopher who said that
every man ought to ask himself il he is a
TOOL, forgets that quite number of us are
married, and get some information with
out asking for it.
A camel begins work at years old and
frequently continues in use for over half
century. It viii carry 1000 pounds on
its back, while few horses can carry more
than 250 pounds.
Peroxide OF hydrogen is..a valuable an
tlseptic to have in the house. Il makes
pleasant mouth wash and throat gargle
when diluted, and will remove blood
stains very satisfactorily if ussd before the
stain is dry.
A New York flat owner has clause ia
his lease under which the tenants, famil-
les and servants alike are compelled to
wear rubber heels, he bearing the ex-
pense. The result is that he never has
any vacant flats, owing to the fact that
everybody is noiselessly ahod
When man, by the formation of good
habits, has acquired perfect mastery Of all
the simple regular details of his work SO
that he can attend to them almost without
thinking about them, be is left free and
unwearied to cope at bis full power with
new and complicated duties as they aa;se.
Pale death enters with impartial step
the cottage of the poor and the palace of
the fieh." Likewise the internal revenue
tax -gatherer, equally as certain as death,
makes his demands on the rich and the
poor. But he comes in such way that
ne is not recognized and not one time in
every million does the man who bears the
burden OF the tax know wheA he is paw
ing it.
VI course he is only horse, maybe a
lively horse at that, but he has feelings
Just the same and you are mighty sight
poorer specimen of man than he is of
beast II you do not respect Them, particu-
ariy during the hot weather. Water Of
en, stop for rest frequently if the work is
hard. Gut out the tightly drawn check
'ein, forget the. whip and let him jog along
Is easy as is possible. Just suppose for in
stance that you were a horse.
lie was thin, fragile young preacher,
out not half so helpless as be looked. He
'ould see and hear what was going on,
wen during the last prayer. Just before
closing service he said calmly but with
rood deal Of impressiveness to the square
nch: " Those In tbs congregation who did
lot get their things all on during the
prayer can do so while pronounce the
'enedietion." During which, however,
ne audience could hear each others
watches tick.