The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-01-08
sUNFLoWER PHILOSOPHY.

sUNFLoWER PHILOSOPHY.
What a lot OF things people hide
from each other,
There is not a particle OF sense back
! OF great deal of hope.
We don't IKE people who are always
fussing about hard times.
There are only two ways to guess,
but a man oftener guesses wrong than
right
OF the man you are wrangling with, IL
was yours.
People are usually willing 10 do their
duty. but they do not like TO do too
much OF it.
People expect so much that they
fear the worst when they have plenty
The only excuse for a man school
teacher is that he whips harder than
a woman.
Ii you keep on asking for good ad.
vice. some day you will get it and
won't like il.
There is always material for a fierce
political quarrel ii you can find fools
TO engage in it.
The newspaper a man takes is very
much like the town in which he lives
never satisfactory.
People will be all right as soon as
they forget this year and begin TO hope
for next year
Considering the annoyances of life, a
patient man or woman is entitled TO
a great deal Of credit
The smaller the woman the larger
the hat she looks at when she goes into
millinery store.
The woman who only powders feels
mighty superior to the one who also
paints her cheeks.
bald-headed man makes a good
deal better appearance than a man
with whole lot of bushy hair.
There should be fewer warships built
in time OF peace and more homes for
old people neglected by their kin.
Some mems systems of reform close
ly resemble a boys method of driving
cattle-to "holler" as loudly as pos
sible.
To the real strict church observer
there occur about forty seasons in
year when parties must be given with
the blinds down and the news kept out
Of the paper.
A woman hasn't thoroughly learned
the art OF shopping if she can't make
the rounds down town without spend
ing a cent.
You never hear a girl say she hopes
to marry a man who will love her truly
and sincerely; she always says she
wants to marry a rich man. Girls do |
not believe in love as much as they |
pretend to-
You must have noticed that army Of. |
fcers are very thrifty in their love |
affairs; they never marry poor girls !
who belong TO big families.
BY the time spinster has reached |
forty years OF age she has a horror or |
hearing of a marriage in which the |
bride is elderly because she knows that |
every one she meets will say. archly: |
There is still hope for you"
How many agreeable things do you |
hear during the day, and how many |
disagreeable Things? We kept count |
to-day. with this result: Agreeable. |
none; disagreeable. thirty-seven.
We once knew a man who seemed to |
really have sense. IF he hasn't sense" |
we used TO think, mo one has" He |
has turned out to be the biggest Ounce |
in town. and We are discouraged.
There should be more written con
tracts and fewer understandings"
Half the quarrels between men origi- |
nate because they do not understand |
agreements alike. Written contracts |
would avoid all this
When young man starts in bust |
ness without much capital 1t is custo-
mary to praise his pluck, though the |
quality known as pluck is often an |
Indifference to the possible creditors |
who will suffer by his failure.
A rich mans daughter shows II in |
the daintiness of her apparel all her
life. but rich mans son is as dirty
and dusty and unkempt as a poor
mans son until he is grown.-Atchison
(Kan) Globe.
III the women are seeking a field of
reform. let them find ii in themselves
Just before Christmas. This is the sea
son when a woman works herself 10
death providing silly and worthless
things TO give TO people she cares moth
ing for. and all at an expense to her
husband. whom she is supposed TO
dearly love. This is a field that needs
workers worse than all others, and ev-
cry woman In II has only to work on
herself to accomplish needed reform.
-Atchison (Kan.) Globe.