Amador ledger., 1909-11-26

cept promises they cannot make good.
Every poor.man is ready to make fun
of rich man, or borrow money of him.
For every dollar a man catches, three
or four others nbble at his bait, and
get away.
Look at any mans clothes, and you
will find from seven to seventy-fve
spots that should be removed
What has come of the od-fashioned
man who thought it smart to swear in
the presence of a preacher?
The cigarettesand the wolf are abused
good DEAL but neither is threatened
with determination.
1t is contest these days over which
will contain more different articles the
top bureau drawer, or the salad.
We have noticed that the sort of man
known as an lconoclast is pretty apt to
finally get into serious trouble.
When boy wears pairs of new
shoes without protest, it is an indication
that he is going away on the cars.
The girl who works hardest in de-
corating the church can usually be de-
pended on to be poor worker at home.
Hatred takes time, and energy, and
health. And the dividends on the in
vestment are pitifuly small and unsatis
factory.
If there is anything in the world that
will please woman almost to death, it
is to say of her that she is ''inimitable.
There is woman in Atchison who
complains of illness so much she makes
other neihgbors think of ward in
hospital.
Apply to any woman word of which
she doesn't know the meaning, and she
will smile, and thank you for the COM
pliment.
There is one time, at least, when
stinginess is admired the stinginess of
the girl on the programme who refuses
to respond to encores.
There are so many unpleasant expert
ences in the world that you needn't tell
yours on the theory that you have a
monopoly.
Say a home is beautiful, and the
women present will intimate that it, is
due more to the wife's taste than to the
husbands money
If you pay attention to baby and it
acts cross and mean, the mother is
pretty apt to say Baby does not feel
good; he has not had his nap"
You may imagine people give you
the worst of it, but, if your stomach
could talk, you would be abused good
deal more than you are. In the average
magazine, we usually find something
to interest us, but, outside of the news,
we cannot say as much for the average
Sunday paper
If you want to see a man who is really
money mad, hunt up one who has been
unsuccessful for good many years, and
then begins to make money late in life
After girl has worked in a boarding
house two days she begins to handle the
dishes with as little respect as a suffra-
gette handles men in her conversation.
When a man dies suddenly you hear
dozens of men say that when their time.
comes they hope to die that way. Men
dread lingering illness, pain, and
grumbling kin.
We know a certain man who is bright,
and we hang around him a good deal
because of the original things he says.
But we have noticed lately that he is
beginning TO repeat his smart sayings.
1t will come to pass one OF these days
when a woman shows her work hardened
hands as a proof that her husband was
not always considerate of her that he
will exhibit his fingers torn and bleed
ing from trying to fasten her waist up
the back, as proof that she was not al
ways kind TO him.
A man paid another a compliment
yesterday. 'lf you are sincere, - said
the man complimented, 4" am obliged
to you, but if you made the remark to be
polite. ] don't care for it. In fact dis
like that sort of thing. don't want
anyone to make me believe a creditable
thing about myself that isn't true. "
The first month that mans enlarged
picture is hung on the wall, he finds
himself being constantly drawn toward
it until the carpet in front of it begins
to look like that in front OF a girls
mirror. After he is dead his wife looks
at it often; then she quits looking, and,
in a year or two, she begins looking
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