The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-07-16

A reputation at quilting bee Lasts
tbout as long as celluloid gargoyle
IN satan,s old homestead, signs Life.
It. is the uncertainty of women.
muses. the Chicago News, that makes
men go daffy about them.
! Piety adopted because it pays, com
esses the Chicago Tribune. costs
more than it is worth.
For every person that acts like 3
sonic on us, 1000 act like mustard
plaster, complains the New York
Press.
Home is where the heart is" go
ihe poets say. But some declare, con-
lends the Kansas City Journal, that
nome is where the crouch is on dis
play.
The man who would rather be right
han be President, thinks the Phila-
lelphia Record, generally has his
preference gratiied.
The worst feature about the man
with one idea, insists the Philadelphia
Record, is that the idea is seldom big
enough.
Perhaps it is wisely ordained, sug-
gests the Chicago Tribune, that the
coal dealer and the ice dealer shall
DOT both be happy at the same time.
Reform, declares the Washington
Star, will proceed slowly in Turkey,
doubtless advancing and retreating as
faction succeeds faction in control
But it must progress ultimately.
The sure sign man is so old he
ough to be able to know it but doesn't.
explains the New York Press, is when
girls don't think it's any different to
kiss him from doing it to their grand
mothers picture.
Says the New Haven Register: In
stead of going abou' 70 change TIE
law or make new laNs what we need
to do is to make the most Of the laws
which we have. Laws do not change
people, but some times their strict APP
plication does.
It will be in the interest Of the pe0-
pie, observes the Washington Star,
II the new law for the theatre in New
York State is utilized sensibly and
carefully, not sensationally. II the
managers are in earnest in their pro-
claimed determination to improve the
morals of the stage there will be lir-
tie need to apply the statute. But
ganization representing the first class
theatres. They may seek to establish
a decent standard, and there will re-
main scores of places where the viii
est exhibitions are given twice daily.
There is no need of accidents, no
occasion to make the Fourth of July
a day OF mourning instead of joy by
scenes of disorder and the bursting
Of bombs in the hands of small boys.
No celebration at all, insists the
Washington Star, is preferable to .
celebration similar to some we have
had in the past; but it is not neces-
sary to go so far. Let the people in
sist that private celebrations be pro-
hibited and let them ask for proper
public spectacle which everybody can
enjoy.
The person first to be honest with
is ones self, philosophers the New
York World. Self deception is worse
for the character and for the happi.
ness than attempts to deceive others,
Tor it is the one kind of dishonesty
which grows fastest on itself and
always finds a willing ear and yield
ing will. The best way to enjoy life
is to take little pleasure from many
things and to train ones mind to
pleasant and kindly thoughts. No one
is wholly bad. and no one is always
good True appreciation of the char
acter of others Is the right mental
point of view.
A woman writer in the Southern
Workman invests Indian music with q
strange fascination albeit she does
manifest hospitable credulity toward
very far flung conjectures. What she
suggests is that the music of the abb
original tribes OF this continent is not
aboriginal. not of Asiatic origin, but
is survival and an echo of the civil.