Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-11
For an Idle Moment.

hour Of nature study. Teacher was show
ing us the flowers and birds on the hats
of the women who went by.
Success in Life is gettin people ter
think ez we'll er you eZ you think er yer
self.
The deader man becomes to sin, the
liyelier he gifts in the service er the
devil.
Their golden rule amt printed no
palmer in er hundred dollar Bible than
it is in er 10-cent Testament.
There's lots of folks who'd ruther be a
whistle on er steam ingine than be one
er the driyin' wheels.
Joseph Letter, in an interview OH his
yacht Chantecler, said, with smile:
"PIease quote me accurately. In an
interview, you know, the slightest mac
ruracv can make man ridiculous. 1t is
like the Frenchman, who, though he had
very fair knowledge Of English, never
theleSs said to the father:
"'Ahal Your son he resemble you. A
chip off the old blockhead, heinz"
Two Of the gilded youth of Providence,
R. l., were in Newport, according to Life,
and came upon neWsbOy.
Let me have paper" said one of them,
giving the boy so cents.
81 can't change that" said the boy.
Lend me Nickel" the gided youth
asked his companion.
ooh, bother let him have the SO cents"
"Ne, indeed! You let him have it if
you like. My father-in-law is not dead
and yours is.''
In the art of dining" remarked G.
Rector, zone should complete his meal
with the feeling that one dish more
would be in no was distasteful, just like
the little girl of whom the late Julia
Magruder used to tell.
"The writer took the little miss out to
luncheon, and when it was over handed
the waiter $50 bill. He returned with
change-a plate piled with greenbacks
and silver. The little girl looked at the
plate with shining eyes.
"'Piease Miss Magruder,' she said, TIL
have plate of that, too"
A YOrkshireman was standing next to
a representative of the Red Rose on the
second day of the Blackpool flying meet
ing, says the Dundee Advertiser, when
he remarked:"I understand that justice
is meted out very quickly in these parts" :"
"Quicklyw exclaimed the Lancastrian.
81 should think it is. Why, mate, only
yesterday all airman fell out of his aero
plane, and he was tried and sentenced to
six months in Jail before he hit the
ground" 'You don't say sol What was
the charger" "Vagrancy; he had no visi-
bic means of support
Gordon Selfridge," said Chicagoan
on pier in New York, sis running the
biggest and best department store in
London. It's stately building of gray
stone on Oxford street. Selfridge, with
his liberal American methods, has made
the English sit up.
He told me the other day that too
many English shOpkeepers pursued the
short-sighted and niggardly policy of a
certain baker in Bloomsbury.
"a customer complained to the baker
about currant bun
"'My bun this morning. he said, CON
tanned several flies. I'd like you to give
me another for it, please
"'Oh, no. said the baker, 4 can't give
YOU another bun. That would be unfair
to my business. But I'll tell you what
| will do-for each fly you found I'll
gladly give you another currant.'"
Prof. Hugh W. Ransom of Harvard was
describing at a dinner at Cambridge his
experience as a subway workman-ex-
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science.
"One thing that impressed me-" he
said, twas the happy home life of these
hard working men. 1t is far happier
home life than that of the idle rich. And
yet, the way people talk you'd think it
was wretched and squalid home life.
"The wgy people talk, you'd think Jim
Jdckson's was typical poor mans home.
"Jim, very pale and shaky, stopped at
the butchers one morning and said:
"Give me small piece Of raw beef
for black eye, please
"'Who's got black eye. Jim?' asked
the butcher, curiously.
"'Nobody amt yet Jim answered.
But I've been on a bust for the three
days, and now I'm on my way home the
old woman"