Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-10
EDGEFIELD, S. 6.
A store of Impractical piety IN the
heart warns the Chicago Tribune.
soon paralyzes it.

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The man who never tries to do
fhings seldom feels the hammer Of the
knocker,s observes the Commoner.
No matter how Intellectual she may
be. sneers the Philadelphia Record, at.
ter . woman reaches a certain age
che feels that almost any man is a
match for her.
One OF the first ways in which an
opportunity to earn money was open
TO women came in the days before the.
sewing machine. relates the Christian
Register. when hundreds of thousands
OF linen bosoms were sent throughout
the country to be stitched by hand for
The shirtmakers OF New York City.
Notes the New York Evening Globe:
China in her ruling classes is now
committed to progressiveness. Civ
EHWr ~ fA
Mzation has won its victory. What
win it do with it? II not in a,military
way certainly in an economic way
China must In the near. future be
reckoned with. The Chinese are in
dustrious and intelligent, and the un-
loosing Of the latent force of its mil.
Hons win have effects now seen only
BY men of imagination.
An ambitious barber, having i'm
proved his idle moments by studying
medicine and surgery, and having
graduated in that profession, opened
an office and waited for patients. re-
lates the Argopaut. The first me had
appendicitis. Deity the surgeon per
formed the operation, then, after the
patient had recovered from the effect
OF the anaesthetic, inquired. Won't
ron have your leg cut off today, sir?
Looks as if it needed it"
Says the San Francisco Chronicle:
So far the automobile as a luxury.
has had a more complete demonstra-
lion than the automobile as a utility.
Still, the sale Of auto trucks, deliy.
arv carts and even hearses Is grow.
ing. With the perfection OF the mech.
anism it wiz probably grow faster;
for when there Is no longer any peril
OF delivery wagons being stalled be-
tween store and customer we shall e1-
pect to see a great increase in the
commercial demand for them.
Observes the Louisville Courier
Journal: There is no quarrel between
the average motorist and the law, or
between the average moto-ist and the
pedestrian. No one is more constantly
In danger from the "joy rider than
those who make sensible use of auto.
mobiles. The interest of the pedestfi-
ans. the drivers of horse drawn reht.
cIes and owners of motor cars in the
observation upon the road is common.
and the various elements should make
common cause against joy riding.
The Poe cottage at Fordham is now
owned by a dentist. In this little dwell
ing, with its shingled roof and gabled
ends, that gifted mar Edgar Allan
Poe lived from 1916 to 1870. The
cottage contains only three rooms, but
here it was that Poe wrote "The RAY
en- and "Annabel Lee" in musical
meter that still casts a spell. Perhaps,
suggests the New York Mail, in the
very room where "The Raven" was
written down in words that can new
er die the groans of patients will bear
witness to the torments of toothache.
In this day and generation there is
no time mol place for romance. Even
the Poe cottage has had to be COM
mercialized. Listen a moment to the
subway guard: -step q little lively
pleased"
a school OF matrimony," having
for its object the medication of "the
prime essentials of welded happi-
ness" has been instituted in Boston.
reports the New York World. To teach
a Boston girl how TO be a happy wife
seems like attempting to paint the
flny, and there is reason to suspect
that the academy in question is a form
of the educational philanthropy for
which the Hub is noted. A school for
wives is no doubt q perfectly logical
extension of the widened scope Of
modern education In what school the
RomanlCornelias. the resolute matrons
who embarked on the Mayiower and
Inc millions Of happy American wives
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