The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-04-27
WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHERS

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1t is extended, however, not with re-
yolyer or dirk in Italian fashion. but
for 'Crismus gif'."-Columbia State.
The proportion of unmarried women
in America is growing larger each
year. Is it because the men are too
diffident or the girls too discriminate
ing? Angeles Herald.
That woman who married burglar
who had robbed her probably figured
it back by going through mis- pockets
while he was asleep. Washington
Post.
The Richmond papers are complains
ing of 'the Ninth street swamp" in
that city. 1t they had that swamp in
Norfolk or Charleston they would be
calling it a harbor.-Bristol (Tenn.)
Herald Courier.
''Giye the wicked Bernhard a wide
berth demands a Boston divine.
What for? There are enough fat peo-
pie to fill the wide berths.- Brockton
| Times.
A young man in. Indiana killed him
self because he could not understand
Poes poetry. What would he nave
done if he had been reading Brown
| ing?- Washington Herald.
Again it is reported that the hoop
skirt is coming back Not if the wear
ers have to pass the Williamson build
ing in Cleveland and the Flatiron
building in New York. Cleveland
| Leader
Music hath charms" remarks the
New Orleans Picayune. Leaving,
aside the fact that this can scarcely
be called scoop, we hope the Pic
ayune didn't have in mind an electric
piano Austin Statesman.
1t doesn't require much provocation
to have oneself arrested, nowadays.
An American in London has been
pinched because he had 1000 81 bills
in his possession. And it was only
the other day that Explorer Peary es-
capped like fate by pawning his over
coat with the waiter to pay for his
dinner What the safe means is no
fellow can say with certainty. -Roch-
ester Herald.
Time alone can tell whether that
carload of motherless and fatherless
babies shipped from New York to
Texas went from bad to worse.-Des
Moines Tribune.
The rumor that Kansas has develop
ed a popular movement discrediting
whiskers sounds like a charge of po-
litical backsliding Washington Star.
Chantecler is a queer thing to be
staged in this skeptical age, and to
originate in hardheaded France, and to
have Maude Adams, petite as she is.
for the masterful title role. Can she
really crow?-Buffalo News.
According to The News and Courier
Charleston girl received fifteen
proposals in one week. But it is not
recorded that she accepted either
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.
If these fearful scenes between dog
loving and childless women and clerks
continue to be enacted in our hotel
corridors because of refusal to allow
the pups to be taken into the guest
rooms, some Observation-Disclosures will
be justified in erecting a canine hos
telry in the capital city.-Ricnmond
| (Va.) Verginian.
Folks who, have lived long with
the continual bark of the wolf just
outside, their door. will get little
smoker out of the firm name Of Uf,
Uff & Uff, Kansas City, Mo.-Buffalo
News.
Harry K Thaw can pay one-fifth
of his debts. This announcement sur
prises those people who thought that
the lawyers had got all of Thaw's
money.-Pensacola News.
A stocking stiletto is the latest
weapon to be used by women, and this
handy weapon Of defense is said TO
be attached to the garter. The fight
against long hatpins is no doubt the
cause Of women adopting new weap.
on in place of the time-honored hat
pin.-Pe Pensacola Journal.
Peary, it appears, walked fifty
miles in fifteen hours. Pooh! Cock
must have done twice as well, at
least. Otherwise he would never
have reached the pole. = Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
American Industries has a special
article on How an Emergency Chrren-
cy Works. The paragraphers' union
knows how emergency currency
works. Usually it purchases break
fast.-Austin Statesman.
Woman has invented the term hus-
bandette to denote the man whose
wife is wiser and stronger than ne is.
Huh! Why not cravenette? BY the
way, some new word is wanted to de.
scribe some roughnecks in woman's
garb doing carttail oratory under the
yellow flag at saloon side doors de-
manding votes.-New York Telegram.
Medical records SHOW" says a
nerve specialist, that persons who
are not loquacious have always been
remarked for their good health" Let
him explain that to his wife.-Cleye.
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