The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-05-13

IL II ISL dangerous uON "uH AZ
tempt 1t.
Some people can not bear to be left
alone; they can not enjoy their own
company. How do you feel about it?
Men who want to argue the tariff
with us on the street must carry
chairs we are tired of arguing stand.
ing.
1t is a mighty rich girl who can
resist the temptation to reply to an
advertisement of lady cashier wanted
at So a week.
1t is generally said of an Atchison
woman: she accepts things so gra-
Ciously!" But no one can recall that
she ever did anything for others.
If woman refuses to lend a man
all her money, 1t is perhaps because
he never looked at her sympatheti-
cally, and said: you poor little girl"
Ralph Fisher, the Globes boy" in
the composing room for three years is
now working at Klostermeier Bros.
He wants to learn the plumbing trade.
Although the average layman is
willing that the preacher should take
vacation, it is never because he
thinks the strain of overwork de-
mands it.
They tell of an Atchison woman
who puts seventeen things in her
simplest salad and she once had the
great compliment paid her of guest
eating so much he died the next day.
An optimist is one who can think
of what fuzzy things peaches are, any
way, when the frost nips the buds,
and of the trouble in canning them,
and how the seeds scratch his throat.
When a young man calls on a girl
three or four times, her friends always
begin to whisper that he is keeping
other young men away, as if there
were troop of eligible suitors hang
ing outside ready to break in.
Why stand on the streets and ar
que? You must realize that you in
vent facts, knowing that the other fell
low does not know enough to contro-
vert them. The other fellow plays the
ignorant, and takes advantage of the
fact. 1t is waste of time to argue.
bookmark is something woman
keeps between the pages of Uplift lit
erature on the parlor table: She
never uses it in the trashy literature,
oh no! for the reason that, after she
begins on trashy literature she
doesn't stop till she gets through.
The girl who picks out the style of
automobile she wants, and makes out
long list of other good things, does
not succeed in landing a husband as
we'll as the style of girl who talks of
love in cottage, and says she will
do her own washing at first.
Note: 1t is proper for guest at a
party to get the cherry left in his
tortions are necessary so long as he
doesn't spill the punch on the carpet
He may be compelled to give himself
a shower bath to get the cherry, but
that is also permissible.
When woman rides down to a
dry goods store she ties the horse
and goes in Why? Because no wo-
man on earth will trust to a clerks
judgment to select her calico and
thread. But when the same woman
rides to a grocery store a clerk has
to step out to her buggy and tell her
what they have. She takes his word
for the condition of what she buys,
and lets him make the selection.
man was mailing up box. A
neighbor saw him. and went over to
make suggestions. The neighbor stood
looking, cooking his head first on one
side and then on the other, like a bird
dog looking at tumble bug or toad
in the grass. The man knew the
neighbor wanted to make a sugges-
ton, so he found a twenty-penny nail,
and began using is on the small box
Great goodness, man." said the neigh
Dor, you shouldn't use a nail of that
size" 81 know it," the man replied,
but you seemed so anxious to make
a suggestion that l thought I'd give
you chance"
A woman who has been married
seven years recently cleaned out a
writing desk drawer that belonged to
her father whose death occurred a few
months ago, and came across bundle
of receipts as big as a mans arm, tied
with red tape, and marked on the out
side, For Mary" She opened them,
and saw that they were receipts for
her trousseau bills. The woman's
best dress now is 5O-cent wool, made
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