The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-11-06

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The popularity of the 1ong-winded
man, thinks the Philadelphia Record,
is short-lived.
1t is easy, confesses the Chicago
Tribune, to mistake self-approbation
for reformation.
All a woman has to do to discover
brains in man is to be his mother,
exclaims the New York Press.
Don't it beat all, remarks the Com
moner, how big little cottage seems
when the babies are all visiting
grandma?
Manila had an earthquake, notes
the Chicago News, but it was much
lighter than some the city had when
under SPANS incapable management
Wireless bulletins ofsbaseball games
to battleships at sea should furnish
another incentive to enlistment in the
navy, argues the New York World. |
A Missouri woman obtained a d. |
vorce from her husband because he |
struck her with rolling-pin. She |
is doubtless a suffragette, surmises |
the Atlanta Constitution, who had the |
poor man working in the kitchen.
1t is foolish to say, as a recent
writer does, that miscegenation would |
rapidly increase if the marriage of
blacks and whites were encouraged |
by law Laws, insists the Christian
Register, spring out of antipathies,
they do not create them.
Says the Chicago Record.Herald:
Paris has school where young wom-
en- are taught how to smile. It re-
mains to be seen whether the school
will be able to teach young women
how to smile while clinging to straps
in street cars.
There seems to be growing pre-
JUDGE against the surgical contre-
temps manifest in sewing sponges,
forceps, scalpels and what-not into
patients. The loss of the material
may be a trife, admits the Philadel-
phia Ledger, but several subjects of
operation have objected to being load
ed with junk, and made a real fuss
about it,
Who will say, demands the Chicago
inter Ocean, that base ball is bad
or the American boy? He is devel
,ping all that goes to make the ty-
oical American. He gets out on the
playground and does his level best.
When the game is finished and he
S tired out through his efforts he
lurries home to mother, for the boy /
S always hungry and mothers meals
re the best. y
President Taft is dead right in in
listing that politics shall be kept out
f the census and the census out of =
olitics, asserts the Philadelphia Rec. !;
I'd. The plan of appointing men for I
Government service, with the single
of reaching just and right
esults," might be wisely: extended
. the lasting advantage of the ma !.
ION and the deserved renown of an :"
xecutive courageous enough to put
in operation.
1t seems entirely, to the New York =,
Iail, that the steady spread of the Il
rohibition movement, if it continues, q
ill require some radical readjust- y
rent of the internal revenue taxes
we are to depend upon such levies -,
or any considerable share of the :
ational income. The notion, how ~
yer, that the extension Of prohibi-
on and the consequent decline both a
revenues and in the consumption o
liquors may be a cause of en- N
arrassment to the treasury will te
ighten nobody.
1--WE are not seeking" says Presi-
mt Wilson, of Princeton "to force -,
marriage between knowledge and =.
easure; we are simply trying to =
row them great deal together in =
e confidence that they will fall in ~
We with one another. We are seek
g to expose the undergraduate
len he is most susceptible to the -"
st and most stimulating influence
the university in the hope and be-
f that no sensible fellow fit for es
reer can resist the Infection" Doc. tn
: Wilson should look more about We
H. There arc dozens of Anor;,,n ~