The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-08-23
THE IDLER.

marks I was talking about how mem
bers of the legislature, or even pros
pective members, might acquire fame
by advocating the enactment Of a
chicken law semilar to the North Car
olina statute with the additional pro-
vision prohibitiong chicken roosters
growing except at such tines as fixed by
statute and thus disturbing the morn
ing slumbers of the inhabitants. This
may be considered as interference with
the personal liberty of the rooster, but
in this country now personal liberty
is a thing of the dead and glorious
past. Everything must be regulated
by statutory enactment. There was a
time in this land Of the free and the
! home of the brave when men and roos-
tiers could do somewhat as they pleas
ed when they didn't please to inter-
fere with the happiness or the proper
ty of others but that tinlte has passed
and we are now our brothers keeper
not so much by eXample-but by law.
| And why not regulate the rooster?
I did read the following, however, in
some paper some time ago. But it was
a. New York decision. And yet it
seems to me the. lawyers in South Car
olina once upon a time-it may have
been in the long ago, too-Would oc-
casionally rely upon decisions of the
New York courts. but I reckon that
time is gone too. At any rate it is
refreshing to know that there are
few places where man has a little
personal liberty to do as he pleases,
but you will observe that there is in
timation Of restriction because the
decision says he may spree three times
a year. Some one will be ready to say
that should not be allowed and I have
no doubt myself the man would have
been better off if he had not spreed at
all, but that is his affair. Here is the
newspaper clipping:
New York, March 11-"Three times
a year is not too often for a gentleman
to get drunk" said Surrogate Daniel
Noble at Jamaica, L. Il today, in de-
Gliding will contest where two BROTH
ers of the testator sought to have the
will declared void on the ground that
he was an "habitual drunkard" Sur
rogate Noble promptly decided the
will was valid and gave the contes-
tants lecture.
The will was that of William Trest-
er, of Evergreen, L. l., who left an
estate of $4,000. To one brother he
! left S5 and to another the same
amount. The two sisters got the resi-
due.
I have tried to improve my limited
opportunities and have really been a
rather close observer of men and wo-
men and so far as could have tried to
improve my opportunities. Of course
my experience is very limited, but I
always did wonder why people after
they married and had pledged them
selves to love and protect each other
all their lives were not, in some cases
of course, as polite and courteous and
considerate Of each other as they were
before. Little attentions, little cour-
tesies do not cost anything, but they
go long ways towards making life
happy and pleasant-yours and others
with whom you come in contact-and
the folks at home You old married
man and you young married man read
this:
If your wife does not love you as she
did when you married, you must have
fallen off in your attentions. Remem-
Der that wife is only a sweetheart a
few years later, advises Charles Bat
tell Loomis in the Delineator. Make
believe that she is still your sweet
heart.
When you go home from business
have the maid send your name up just
as in the old days. A wife likes these
little attentions, and if she is the right
sort, she will send down word that she
will be down in a few minutes. Then
put fve-pound box of candy in a pro-
minent place and wait patiently. When
you hear her coming, run to meet her,
and kiss her in manly way as if you
had waited all day for the privilege.
Then give her the candy. If there is
but one chair in the room let her sit in
Il while you stand. Now tell her the
events of the day in the office in a
witty way, that will appeal to her love