The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-07-17

We sometimes sit and wonder I
And stew and fume and fret
For something may happen,
But it hasn't happened yet.
There was once lonely woman
Who cried down by the sea-
What IL my pretty children
All should persisted bel"
Now this particular woman,
Who thus did cry and fret,
ID still a maiden lady,
So 1t hasn't happened yet.
900
HOW TO TELL HER AGE.
Girls of marriage age do not like
TO tell how old they are, but you can
find out by following the sub-joined
instructions. the young lady doing
the figuring: Tell her TO put down
the number OF month in which she
was born, then to multiply it by two,
then to add 5, then to multiply 1t
by fifty, then TO add her age, then
TO subtract 365, then to add ll5
then tell her TO tell you the amount
she has left. The two figures to
tn right will tell you her age and
the remainder the month of her
birth. For example II the amount
IA $50, she is % years old and was
born in the eight month (August)
hit.
The need of some place to drop
down for a moment and forget things
, Is crying one in most homes There
/ ought TO be enough sofas around to
accommodate all the family. Five
minutes rest will prevent many a
family row, and how can You get rest
Isl you have to pull shams off the
bed and roll up the coverlidf A shah
by old lounge where you can get 1t
is worth its weight In gold; and
you won't want to die half so many
times II you make use OF it. The
loosening Of the tension for ever
so few minutes may save your reason
some day. Don't go out and try
to walk off your worries; don't tell
them TO your friend, either, Just
throw yourself down on the sofa fol
a little while; shut your eyes and
pretend you have no care. The wor.
ries will be lighter before you real
lie It, your brain will be clearer anC
your heart stronger to meet those tina
press closest
900
: II brothers or sisters err the
world says "shun them, thus yol
: will show that you disapprove o
: the act, making an example o
them" Alas, how many example
2 we have of this mode of teaching
crowding the haunts Of infamy to
J. day. Once bright young lives, owe
whose pure lips and innocent brow
S mothers watched In all tenderness
but the trembling felt took one falls
step and so we shut them, out o
our hearts, out of our churches, an
would thrust them out of heaven
Il It right, is it just, is it Christ
> like? .. -.. ~.
ADVICE TO AN ENGAGED MAN.
II you think that a woman is an
9 weaker minded than man, $50
I where 20 are.
J. II you intend to treat Yourself bett,
d than yourself, don't take one.
r II you suppose TINT running h
i house consists in paying the bill
n don't undertake it,
a II you have an idea that YOU al
q too good for picked up dinner, r,
X main bachelor.
II If you have found 1t hard tas
to be happy yourself, then don't II
TO make some one else happy.
If you have chosen a pretty woma
without regard to her other quail
ties, halt, you are on the wron
/. road.
!, If yon think that house -shoul
have only one head, and that |
yours, postpone Your wedding indie
initely.
II you are of the opinion that ma
!, riage makes the man and wife on
. and that you are that one, send 1
" your regrets at once.
If you are one of the men VIII
think that ten per cent of their IL
come belongs to the tap-rocm, ],
marriage alone.
900
THE EVIL IN FRETTING.
There is one sin which seems [
us is everywhere and by everybod
/, underestimate and quite too muc
overlooked in valuation of characte
lit is the sin of fretting. So com
mon that unless 1t raises above it
usual monotone we do not observe
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