Gilpin observer., 1911-02-16
OBSERVATIONS

When a man really has to tele-
phone his wife that he can't be homo
for supper, he feels provoked at her
he is lying again.
Some people get great deal of
pleasure out Of making themselves
miserable.
The girl who lets a man flirt with
her just enough to get himself into
an ice cream buying mood, has no
kick coming II she has to finally set
tie down with one of the skim milk
kind.
The professional heart specialists
who prescribe for the ills of the
heart forlorn in the newspapers, GER
tainly do not get their information
from practical experience.
When a woman isn't afraid OF be-
ing caught in a rain storm, you can
be sure her complexion is all right.
When we do something worthy OF
applause, it seems as If everyone Is
looking the other way.
Maxine Elliott is taking consider
able interest in the ballot for women
to the neglect of the ballet for men.
If some store should advertise
prices cut from 25c to a quarter. all
the women would fall over one an
other to get to the bargains.
Sovereign beauty makes a girl look
like queen.
A wise man consults his wife about
his affairs-to find out whether or
not he has got to keep them to him
self.
Let not the right hand neighbor
know what thy left hand neighbor
doeth.
The man who saws wood for liv-
ing is at least bucking his own way
through the world.
"The Nest Egg" New York play
is said to be as rotten as Salome.
The name would suggest it.
Taft says he is going to be pres
ident himself. We should think he
i could "fill" the position without call
ing in any outside avoirdupois.
kid" McCoy's fifth wife Is suing
him for divorce. He isn't such hit"
around the house.
The sugar trust has offered to pay
| 500. 900 in settlement Of crimes which
! 1t says 1t did not commit. Such unex-
pected and unprecedented generosity
and magnanimity is to be commend
ed-and We believe that the spirit
might move this kindhearted trust
still further under proper encourage
ment from the courts.
1t is foolish for q girl to quit a
hundred dollar a-month Job to marry
a $40-amonth man. She ought to
hang onto the Job. The man would
be willing to take her that way.
The larger cities are putting re-
strictions on the 'chaffeuring" of au-
tomobiles by children. 1t is unpleas-
ant to be run over by an automobile
at any time but to have the machine
guided across the delicate parts OF
your prostrate anatomy by a chauf-
feur in knee skirts and pink hair
ribbons is especially exasperating.
Do not be satisfied II you do not
feel that you have done your task
better than it has been done before
or as we'll as anyone else will be able
to do 1t again. To do less is to be
unambitious and drag on your
employers.
Some people don't believe in part
ing from a fool and his money.
An exchange says that editor" In
Latin means something to eat" The
country newspaperman Of Caesars
time must have been quite a dignifi-
ed parsonage.
| A boiled dinner is all right In its
place, but its place is not inside a
cigar wrapper.
| There are men making Christian
martyrs OF themselves by offering to
put up with all the inconvenience Of
missionery work in hoathen lands
who become peevish the moment a
tired wife asks them to rock a sick
baby few minutes.
An employe Of the government at
Washington has asked that his salary
be cut down. The request should be
referred to the committee on insane
and insane asylums.
In an obituary notice. an exchange
after a lengthy wrlte-up Of the vir-
tues Of the late lamented citizen had
reached the point where the deceas.
ed had gone to southern climes for
health. when the devil informed him
that there was no further space and
the writer wound up: ITO be con.
tinued In the next" We don't sup
pose the writer referred to the south
ern -climes. but he had better keep