The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-01-01

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Wanting what you can't get, to the
Chicago News, is about as much fun
as getting what you don't want.
The tailor displays fashion plates,
thinks the Louisville Courier-Journal,
to show us what he might have done
to us.
Cooks dash to the lecture platform,
suggests the Baltimore Sun, is what
hurts Peary worse than his dash to
the Pole.
A college boy of Lake Placid has
rescued three girls from drowning.
Lots, proposes the New York World,
might be drawn by the girls to de-
eide which shall have him.
Caruso says stage fright gives him
| his fine voice. According to that,
claims the Atlanta Journal, every
high school orator has the making Of
tenor in him.
| A womans mo" means mo" all
right, admits the Pittsburg Dispatch.
but like the peoples mo-" there are
ways of overruling it.
According to the New York Amert-
can, chewometer is the latest de-
vice invented by Fletcherite. 1t is
machine which, when fastened to-
the lower jaw, rings bell when the
requisite number OF t:chews" have
been performed.
We are old enough, confesses the
Christian Register, to remember with
regret the days when American clip
per ships were seen in all waters
and the American flag fioated over
American ships in every seaport in
! the world.
| Whose mocketh married man,
breaches Smart Set, let him take
heed, for fool is born ever minute
and the mocker himself falleth by the
wayside.
Mrs. Annie Besant says there will
not be poor man in the country g.
900 years from now. Cheer up! It's a
long time to wait, but it will roll
around.
The Florida Times-Union has 1t
down right, when it says: Money
| put into good roads is an investment.
not an expense"
The young woman who wanted ST.
600 for each pound of her weight she
lost as result of being Tilted was
probably merely taking her tickle low
er at his word, surmises the New
York Tribune. Doubtless he often told
her that she was worth many times
her weight in gold.
Americans are given overmuch to |
stressing the fact that this is young |
mans age. The call is, not for youth, |
but everywhere for ability. fidelity and
endurance, moralizes the Atlanta Con- |
stitution If the candidate for occu- |
patton or promotion fits these qualifi- |
cations, it is rather immaterial wheth-
er he is twenty-five or twice that age.
A fairly significant fact is that few
men occupy high responsibilities in
government, business or the profess
sions until their hair is tinged with
gray. And, in England, especially,
they do not think a man is mature I'M
til he climbs into his fourth decade.
Insists the Indianapolis News: Good
roads must come because we need
them for other purposes than speed
ing automobiles. There are farm pro.
ducts to be hauled in and building
material, coal and other supplies to
be hauled out and over them, and the
peoples time is too valuable to spend
twice the time on half the load haul
ed over a poor road when good one
will make SO vast a saving. Life Is
not all joy riding; more of it is heavy
hauling, and as heavy hauling needs
the good roads even more than the
joy riding, the chances are that we
shall get them in spite of prejudice,
bad manners and arrogance.
At Munich the museum authorities
are engage in forming an aeronauti-
cal department. According to the
Frankfort Gazette, the museum al
ready possesses some exhibits of very
great interest, such as the first flying
apparatus of Lilienthal, model OF
Zeppelin's dirigibles, those Of Parse
val, and others. The department will
be divided into several sections. The
first will contain examples Of the bal
loon proper, with examples Of the
Montgolfiers' inventions. Another
section will be devoted to balloons
used for scientific purposes and those
designed for use in warfare. A section
is to be allotted to the heavier than
air type of machine, the parachutes,
and the kites. Flight will be shown
In all it's stages of evolution, from
that of nature in bibrds UP to the ar.
tiicial flight of man.