The Mena weekly star., 1908-12-24
BITS OF EVERY DAY PHILOSOPHY
lAtchlson Globe.

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 Nearly every man accepts this fic- tion: Everybody knows me"
 A man is scared hundred times for every time he is actually hurt.
 It is surprising the number of things people know" on each other :.
 A woman never has so many aprons that she doesn't need another one.
 It is never safe to tell a newly married man a secret; he'll tell his wife.
 If you want to set woman crazy, advertise good dish pan for ten cents.
 l Fully ninety per cent of the peo- pie you know will impose on you if they can.
 When a man buys a new hat, he wants one just like the one he had befo e.
 When man calls you uncle" and is no kin to you, 1t is sign you are growing old.
 When a woman goes to neigh bor's house to stay minute, she stays an hour.
 We are longing for a scheme whereby a man may avoid man with schemes.
 When a woman wants to be in bed by 10 o'clock she should begin un- dressing by 9 o'clock
 A man and woman can argue pleasantly until they marry each other, then they can't.
 Every man eats too much and too fast, and then says that no one in his business has good health.
 If mother has a husband and four children, it means that she has to do the thinking and planning for six.
 A father will never admit his daughter was given the outlandish name she calls herself, but a mother sometimes will. ] Occasionally man who has nat urally cheerful disposition depends too much upon it, and becomes gen. erally worthless. If the present sentiment continues growing. in the future mothers will not let their children play with the children of bank receivers.
 We think this is important enough to be done in zephyr and cardboard, and hung on the wall: Nobody Likes the Man Who Knows It All.
 Probably no buyer of railroad ever felt the financial glow and hap piness a woman experiences when she sells quart of milk to a neigh bor.
 Answer to correspondent: It de- pends upon the size of the town. A Sl0 hat may be called a creation in Oak Mills, but in Atchison the hat must cost at least S20.
 Worthless people are usually so good natured that you may find a great many of them occupying good positions. The people despise an old cross bone.
 People are always willing to be- lieve things that they should not believe, but they sometimes regard with suspicion anything that has truth written all over in.
 It is a hard lesson to learn, but people do not care much for your opinions. The next time you begin to talk, and air your opinions, notice how soon you are interrupted: those listening to you do not care what you think.
 An Atchison woman hit on the plan of inviting people she did not like very well to her house for din- ner in Lent, as her sacrifice. She felt very religious about it, until she learned that her guests attended as a sacrifice.
 Fully half of what the average man says is of no consequence and is only annoying to those compelled to listen. Very few men seem to real ize the importance of keeping quiet when they have nothing to say.
 During the average engagement both parties get mad and part for evermore" at least thirty times. When young people begin to part "forevermore" it is an indication that their friendship is getting to be more than irritation.
 When a woman gets her rights what will she get that she hasn't now? A woman's wrongs are private ones; a harsh father, an unkind hus- band, ungrateful sons. It is not the election of the wrong man for may or that makes her cry herself to sleep every night and no wrinkles come because her candidate isn't elected president. If her men folks | happen to be tender and indulgent she doesn't want rights and if they are not. the Lord help her: voting will not.
 No man with the slightest self re- spect will go 10 neighboring town as delegate to a convention and quarter himself on a strange family i The members of the family despse him and only agreed to entertain l. L I 4