The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
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Weren't the ponies cutter

Weren't the ponies eutee Of course you didn't want to see the circus .yourseif--"just took the chill there.
 Some men expect their wives to look as young and pretty as when they were first married. After four or five years a young bride (be she ever SO Sisie 9s to Mendie Sse sona stT1gped up the the marchl, begins to look more faded and washed out and older than her moth- CT.
 When poverty comes in the window. love pulls down the shades, stands 1t as long as she can and then applies for divorce or at least ought to.
 We suppose the suffragette will be willing to stand up in street car and paddle her own canoe and do other things on par with men.
 A woman who stole s4,000 worth of jewels in Mexico was released the other day on account of her ignorance. Funny plea that.
 Three highwaymen in Topeka held up a minister of the Gospel there re- gently and secured so cents for their trouble Anybody who would rob a minister and only get 80 cents Is mean. positively wicked.
 People with the most schemes for telling you how to get wealthy have fringe on their pants and holes in their elbows.
 It just takes a bacheloRA who hasn't any hair at all to sheer at red-headed women.
 Fkn TTnt was worth $6,1Ss,000, a large propor- tion of which can no doubt be traced to her nutty millionaire murderers who reside in New York and kill with a vengeance and get released with a plea Thanksgiving on the home stretch and the big Alabama turkey who Is time be stuffed with chestnuts.
 Fear God. tive right. love each other, pay your debts and all the world will be full of love and beauty to you. When somebody hands you a lemon.
 Go on your way undismayed. Just add some sugar and water
 And make you a lemonade. to buy coal. On; no, Louise the reports of the meetings or the aero club are not nec- eSSariy written on fly paper.
 Jack London had a narrow escape rom some cannibals the other day. But now, he's lived to get away Jack will write and make 1t pay.
 A man can abuse his wife a whole lot sometimes and she won't retaliate put let him try abusing his stomach ha Hf suffer for 1t.
 Whenever you see school girl gag ing out Of che window with dreamy, fool enough to imagine she Is think ing Of love the fact of the matter Is ing of love; the fact of the matter Is VIII let out so she can go home and and cold beef and raw oysters and finish of with lot of candy and other trash that would make a hefty farm hand renlg.
 These salubrious November morn. ings make a fellow feel glad he is living in Heavens branch office-Mont- gomery.
 After A While. @ AfteF-a-while s-,L when the gdseans come In the misty far away. W ASA AO tAG thAAiS3o tAtaL VIC tuGdnt
 to do
 Upon some golden day. I'll come to you, dear, through the I'll See once more your smile. After the heart-aches and the tears, After a while! After while in pleading tone
 Hand clasp and throbbing breast, I who have been these years alone Will seek that haven O rest. I who have mutely begged in vain. A word that might beguile, Shall know surcease from the years of
 pain
 After a whilei After a while-when shall it be
 Sometimes it comes in dreams, Your sweet face hovers over me
 As the light on your gold hair
 gleams.
 Then wake with longing, vague
 yet real
 At vanished. haunting smile Oh, Heav'n-shall meet my souls ideal, After a while?
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