The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-09-21

Overcoat to see whether IL can again
answer to rollcall?
One of the worst things going,
you might say, is the bore of a
guest who refuses to go.
The polite well-preserved woman
doesn't say, wouldn't that Jar
your" when some one tells her she
is a peach.
Have you been tagged as yet? If
not, that winsome blonde or spark
ling-eyed brunette is waiting for
you between here and the next corn
er. Please don't renig!
oh yes, you need not be a poet
to know the frost will soon be on
the pumpkin Or that the snow will
soon be on the sidewalk before
breakfast-time in the morning,
either.
The blanket that was pooh-pooh-
ed during the daytime as an old
maids idea, tee-totally unworthy
the attention of a real live, red
! blooded man of the moment comes
| in mighty handy in the wee, small
| hours of these September mornings.
The last baseball news of Wayne
! county for this season of 1910 is
pretty good news at that. Tom
J Gilrs White Mills team is to get the
! $50 the Millers honestly won from
! Archibald at Lake Lodore that beau
tiful Heptasoph picnic day in Au-
/ gust.
We presume the sovereign state
of Pennsylvania will be on the map
of the universe at II O'Clock sharp
the night of Dec 81, despite the
pitiful fact that the 1910 apple crop
is little, if any more than half a
crop in the 67 counties of good old
| Pennsylvania
We harbor the impression if not
the full-hedged, black and white be-
lief that Woodrow Wilson, college
president and Democratic candidate
for governor of New Jersey, will be
almost as chilly cool a candidate as
Alton Brooks Parker, the Strong
Swimmer of Esopus, who "also ran
in 1904.
DR.. Cook and his claims to Polar
priority will not down, says an ex-
change. We prefer to say that the
prevalent opinion of the American
people that DIR. Cook is the greatest
humbug fakir, fraud, fourflusher
and bag of wind generally that ever
made track up the continent will
not down.
There are lots and lots of Maine
Democrats never before heard of
locally, statewise and nationally, who
think they are real competent to
hold down that United States senate
seat tenanted so long and so well
by the Hon. Eugene Hale, a states
man whose prominence antedates
Tom Reed and his speakership.
"Chump'' Clark's threat to drive
two Democratic mules from Mis-
souri, down Pennsylvania avenue tC
the White House gate on March 4
J should work up nicely for what few
Chautauqua dates the Missouri
congressman has left. 1t is hardly
heavy enough for the lyceum plat.
form this winter.
The John K Tener buttons the
county chairman commenced to dis
tribute Saturday show an ALFRED
goodlooking man on the face of em
Now, if the women folks could vote
in these 67 counties, the Tener ava
lanche in November would be even
greater than the one beneath which
the Hon. Grim and the Hon. Berry
are shortly to be buried.
Twentieth century physical cul'
ture and athletics have received 6
, setback from which they cannot eX
pect to recover until another Amer
lean distance runner goes acros!
{ the pond and cabbages a full-sizeC
Marathon. Congressman Billy Sui
Zer, the arch exponent of the stand
ing broad jump at Tammany dis
= trict picnics, will not from present
indications be the Democratic nomi
nee for governor of York state.
Here's hoping today's meeting o.
the fair workers for the Honesdalt
. hospital will get on their job at
sharp, as advertised; that they viii
get a permanent president and {
permanent secretary in less time
than it took them to get a presi
dent pro TEN and a secretary will
the same afix; that they will get to
gether with the vim and the alacrit!
Honesdale women have a way o
showing when there comes to thei
hands any effort for the benefit o
2 humanity; and that the $4,000 the
town must raise to find the state
$4,000 may be pledged before June
l.