Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25
Atkinson Globe Sights.

Atkinson Globe Sights.
How tender some women are over
the term, sold Maid!''
Don't become fond of a certain kind
of dog; it's sure to disgrace you.
There isn't much hope for a curly
haired youth who plays mandolin.
Men often display an undue fond
ness for an old hat; another point
wherein they differ from the women.
While this is an age of specialists, :"
no one has any great admiration for a
man whose speciality is billiard play
ing.
Spoilers say good deal about the
silent letters. Ever notice how loud
letter looks that is put wrong in a
word?
You have probably observed that
the principal difference between
spinach and dandeli ons is in the
grocer's bill.
Care should be taken not to attach
too much Importance to the judgment
of a man who likes the singing of a
glee club.
Life would become unbearably
monotonous to some women if there
were no sick people for them to "sit
up" with.
There are some women whose cook
ing always tells that they cooked
mackeral as long as a week ago last
Friday.
What has become of the old fashioned
mother who made her children drink
sassafras tea every spring, for their
blood?
When a man is asked what he thinks
of his wife's new hat, he wants to
know the price before he will express
an opinion.
If ever a certain Atkinson man dies
and becomes a saint, Shadeland will
see ghost who floats through tn all
as If he wore drunl,.
An unmarried man doesn't believe
it, but the time is coming to him when
his idea of the best kind of luck is
when the baby sleeps nights.
The day after the girl leaves is a
good time to chase the postman from
the gate: He carries letter announc-
ing that company is coming
A woman thinks nothing of eating
breakfast in five-dOllar kimOna, but
she would raise an awful roar if her
husband appeared in his 75.cent
pajamas.
There is one humiliation an old maid
without a love affair has never had to
submit to. She has never had some
man around denying that he is engag ed
to her.
Men are such natural born tryants
that they think every home making
woman who is on the streets at meal
time should have her reason pinned on
like badge
When a man marries a widow he is
particularly good to her in public that
people may not suspect he is jealous of
the first man.
When you meet man on the streets
and feel a desire to tell him 'story, "
shorten it. Don't string it out with
long and unimportant details; get to
the point at once.
1t is wonder a girl doesn't call
her lover her Chocolate Drop. since a
pet name is intended to convey what
is dearest to one, and that a man
doesn't call his girl his Cigar or his
Pipe
On a rainy morning little boy was
given an umbrella when he was ready
to start for school. He put up the
umbrella in the house, but coudn'
get through the door. II know why
it is unlucky to open an umbrella in
the house." he said; ''you can't get
out"
This is the season of the year when
the boy with nerve enough to battle in
ice water ''dares" the other fellows to
go swimming. Most of the pleasure
of that first swim lies in Boosting OF
it to those who lacked the nerve to 90
in. And. by the way, older people dc
lot of things from which pleasure is
derived in much the same way.
The Lancaster Literary society has
decided that man of fifty-seven may
get married without being called
"nutty:" that man of that age has
as much right to get married as man
of twenty-five or thirty. The discus.
sion arose il this way. 4 widower
in that section married lately, at the
age of fifty-seven. His relatives made
great fuss about it. one of his daugh-
tiers going so far as to faint while the
ceremony was being performed. The
Lancaster Literary society took up the
discussion and reached the conclusion
noted above. Those who engaged in the