The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-09-03

Naming a country place is more diff
fcult than naming O baby. There are
so many pretty names that won't fit
and so many fitting ones that are not
pretty! The most important step In
naming a place is to get one. Then
the trouble begins. You suggest
"Hickorynook" and your wife isn't
convinced until a friend of yours in
the same place calls his home "Hick-
ory Ridge" That puts you out Of the
hickory race about the time that your
wife is growing enthusiastic. You sit
on the front porch in the evening and
suggest names like "Crestnook," Sun
set Lodge" "Laughalot," Rose Cot
tage," "EdgewOod," "Crestlynn," and
"Wierwood," but your wife shifts at
each and every one of them. Then
you search the House Beautiful" for
suggestions and end up by consulting
the dictionary, a book of synonyms
and the Holy Bible, but to no pur-
| pose.
| Finally your wife begins to make
suggestions, and you sniff at all her
names Just to get even. When there
is danger of her overriding your au-
thority and settling on "Heartsease,"
or "Fernbank," you roar boisterously
| to laugh her out of court. After forty
| or fifty names have been rejected, you
| go to bed and dream you have the
most appropriate handle that ever
graced happy home. but by morning
you have forgotten it and have to
start all over again!
| Anyone having a real dainty cog
nomen for a country home will CON
| fer a favor by sending 1t along. Oth-
erwise the house may be worn out
before the argument is settled.
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| Too Hot for Cake.
/ A lover named Cake
| Won one who could bake
! The finest of things in pan.
| But while she could bake,
| He learned his mistake
She made things too hot for a man!
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IdIeWiId Faneies.
Never nurse crouch. Blow of and
be done with it.
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! Suicide might be all right II we
I could pick the victims.
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| Hardware men say stoves are going
I'D. Not at our house-they're coming
down.
The old resident will please get in
trim to recall hotter days. The Their
mometer is acting flighty.
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The reason some people talk Sc
much is because they have not brains
enough to entertain themselves by self
communion.
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And, of course, the North Pole Will
stay right where it is until the intrepid
explorer finds it. That's nice thing
about the Pole-it is no dodger.
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A recent novel, in speaking Of the
heroine, says her face fell. Maybe
somebody opened the oven door. I've
heard my wife say that knocks the
center out of fine cake.
600
| Great INVENTION.
At last genius has been born! He
has invented a comb that will not fal
from a lady's hair. No matter wha
the provocation is or how mussed vi
the fair ones crinoline, the comb, like
the star-spangled banner, Is still
there! The frizzes may catch on vii
lies shirt studs or in his society pin
but that precious comb sticks to 1T
work like an organ grinder. Unex
pested company may come, ma or pi
may drop in almost unannounced-
verify the comb keepeth its own sc
cret and doth its mission well! TIT
inventor bids fair to become very pop
ular, while his grapple-tooth comb Il
already a joy and a Cupid's assistant
Now il the same genius will inven
a bald cure for the shiny top OF mid
dle-aged bachelors he will have mad
good indeed!
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A Sweet Mystery.
Judging by the following from tn
Powersyille MOI Record, June wed
ding Is on the tapls for that village
one OF our young gentlemen took
Young lady friend to Sewal last Sun
day and before departing for the sal
city, stocked up with chocolates, pepper
mints and bon-bons. In some name
| the candy was lost sight of until almos