The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-02-06

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A mans wife can't even keep him
on the water wagon by telling him
| how her mother predicts he will fall
Off, opines the New York Press.
No unmarried woman over forty.
five is fit to teach, says a writer
File, shouts the Cleveland Leader.
No unmarried woman is that old.
When we hear a girl refer to her
dresses and shoes as frocks and
boots we know, insists the Ohio State
Journal, her father is making more
money than he used to.
The man who never intended to
be famous is often the most sur
prised when he finds a basket of
prestige on his front doorsteps, con-
tends the Manchester Union.
Colonel Henry Watterson refers
to Panama as fy-by-night republic,
which, remarks the Richmond Times
Dispatch, seems to leave nothing !
much unsaid in this direction.
MUSES. the Utica Press: China
has shown a disposition to welcome
the outside world and adopt some |
modern methods, but the controlling
element is not prepared to abandon
all the ancient Chinese ideas.
Remarks the Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph: PROFESSIONALLY there are
tremendous advantages to be gained
by opening up the internal water
wavs to trade, to the handling OF
which in good times the railroads are
Prophesies the Philadelphia Press:
Consumption will wholly disappear,
and probably in the next twenty or
thirty years, when the great mass
that simple precautions,
followed, will prevent its
spread, that any one affected can be
cured by rest, fresh air and feeding
nd tih n +b;c froofp,apf 10 hoorr IN r11,
will infallibly bring a cure, and if
deferred too late leaves a patient
without hope.
Hotels bar dogs more than twelve
inches long. This is necessity
where they have those revolving
loors, protests the New York Telc-
ram. Dog longer than twelve inches
s liable to get caught and cut In
alf, and it annoys men and women
o be followed into a building by
'ido's head and fore legs while the
outh end is left out on the steps
,oting, as it were, for the rest of
tself.
One of the most prominent and sue
essful retail grocers in Greater Bos-
on has been experimenting lately in
be delivery of orders to his custom
rs by automobile instead of horses,
I'd he tells us, reports the New Eng.
ind Grocer, that the result of his
experiments thus far has been such I
S to justify him in making the I
+atement that the time is not .
ar distant when the automobile will
e generally used for delivering
oods to retail customers. r
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A Berlin correspondent cables to
lie New York Sun this bit of gos- -
p, interesting if true: "The 'Volks.
eitung' says that steps are being
ken to- suppress the record of an T
,terance of the Kaiser made for a 4
recorder five years ago, |.
'e record being intended for Yale Il
collection of voices. 81
lillian spoke into the recorder on o.
'ndition that the record should not c
J released until after his death. Re-
mt events have impelled the German
liberties to ask the possessors OF Il
e record to return it,"
The principle of arbitrary retire. OF
ent of all teachers at sixty-five, re- ~
rdless of their strength and eff
ency, is one. that should be care II
lily considered, however, before it
adopted. Is Oslerizaticn desir
lie? We doubt it, protests the New
'rk Globe. And we should expect re
at the wiser institutions would take 10
re to retain in active service for c,
longer period, in some cases a hi
1ch longer period, those members oil
their faculties who are improved OIL
ther than impaired by age For pc
- mon though exceptional, are be
~ valuable exceptions. III
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According to the annual report is
ID by P. " McGraw. Fourth AS
tant Postmaster General at Wash no
ton II n in charge of tho frno