The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-02-04
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! for life insurance | now give my
readers the benefit of the questions
1 so that they may be enabled to look
1 up the history of their families ana
be prepared to answer when called
upon should they ever apply for III
\ surance
They are about as follows: Was
I your grandfather ever hung for
stealing sheep? Where was your
i great grandmother born? Did she
A smoke a cob or clay pipe? Did your
4 great grandfather swear? Was your
/ grandfather or grandmother cross
/, eyed? Did your grandfather wear
Il wooden or cotton socks and were
d they home knit or store bought? DID
your grandfather chew home twist
/ mr. leaf tobacco? Did he drink his
whiskev straight or take sugar i'll
1 his'n? Is YOUR father a somnambu-
/ list or a Presbyterian? Which does
! YOUR mother put in bread first, salt
/ or soda? Are the measles. mumps,
! hives. whooping cough or nettie-
rash hereditary in your family 10
/ YOU chew Brown Mule, West Tonnes
| see or Greenville tobacco? DO you
sleep on your right side, left side
hack or face? Was your great grand
/ 'ather right handed or left handed
/ In YOUR dreams do you seem TO Walk
in fields elysian hand in hand VITA
A beautiful maiden or do you see the
beasts described in Revelations! Are
Won fond of dogs? If your grand
mother lived to be hundred years
old the physician insists upon
I your giving the immediate cause OF
i her untimely death? | was about 10
/ forget some of the very important
/ questions. Do you breathe through
| your nostrils or do you drop your IN
| der Jaw and let it breathe itself? Are
| your teeth sound and if not why not!
| Do YOU chew on your right side or
left side? Do you smoke a pipe or
cigars? What is your position on the
tariff? Are you low tariff republic
can, high tariff democrat or Just an
honest, straight democrat or repuD-
lican? Do you believe the infant
steel industries of our country
should be protected from the pauper
labor of the Fegee Islands? Do you
take your eggs straight. up, over or
scrambled? Do you prefer oats or
flakes for breakfast? Are you right
or left handed? What number OF
shoes do you wear? Do you believe
faith precedes or succeeds regener-
alton? Do you believe in the final
| perseverance of the saints or apoS-
tacy? Do you wet your hair or comb
it dry? Do you use a quill~or splin-
ter to pick your teeth? Do you be-
iieve the hanging of killed snake
on q tree will cause rain? Have you
an ingrowing toe nail? Do you eat
corn bread or the product of whea1
flour? Do you perspire freely In
warm weather? Who was the physi
elan whose acquaintance you first
made on your first arrival in the
United States? II you answer tn
foregoing questions satisfactorily
and are able to present good ac-
tive liver and healthy kidneys and
lights your chances are good 10
place your wife in a position that
will enable her to get pretty de-
cent sort of man for a second hus-
band
| have today given the tax collec-
tor my pedigree but as | have before
written what | think of a poll tax ]
refrain from any comment at this
time.
j. ID. Jacobs, a good farmer on
Forreston 2. was in Forreston last
week and renewed his allegiance to
the Enterprise. Tuesday | devoted
to small fever, some calomei, some
quinine and some grip tablets. We'd
nesday morning before boarding the
train for Red Oak I met II. c. Brad
ford from Forreston l. At Red Oak
F, F. Beddo Of the popular firm of
Lyon & Beddo, cheered me on my
road to fame and fortune. Mrs. IL.
c, Kirkpatrick gave me one of those
good dinners for which she is SO la
nous among the travelling men Of
this section. Out on the way to the
home of H. l.. Cherry | met Marvin
Parks and got his renewal. Marvin
said Mr.. c. though nearly SO years OF
age was pretty stout but on account
tl the uedtH Oh his Ola TeIldD1e gen
tie horse few months ago he does
not get to Red Oak often. c. II.
Simpson, a large, good looking far
mer from Red Oak 3, was in town
and renewed, also gave me sub for
his son, w. F., on Cedar Hill / R. e.
Orr was in from Henry and renewed
for his son, Sam, at Elk City, Okla.
Coming back to Waxahachie | noun
ted B. B. Thursday and rode over to
the store of Green & Barrow at Bel,
Branch where | got dollar ana
went to the Barrow home where
Mrs. B. gave me good dinner She
had a dish the children called stick
ey that was good. Leaving there {
rolled out 40 the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. w. S. Chalmers where I found
w. S. constructing a pen for some
pigs he had just @gottcn home. He
had not yet mashed his finger or
skinned his shin and was in a good
humor. Leaving there | arrived at
Maypearl where found L. S. Cavan-