Gilpin observer., 1911-10-05
OBSERVATIONS
Don't sacrifice yourself for pelt.

leave footprints on the Sands of time
A "stocky" man usually has fat
"calves."
No man will ever become famed fol
veracity who says he never lies.
All advocate brotherly love for
their neighbors.
Don't begrudge your neighbor the
happiness your smile will give him.
Don't play in game where you
can't lose with cheerful face.
There is nothing quite so aggravat,
ingly dignified as silence.
| A woman is not always the same
age as her twin brother.
Even great men have their
troubles. Lots of their relatives are
holding federal Jobs.
Hunt trouble if you will-but give
it body blow when you catch it.
It is not martyrism to let anyone
impose on you-it is downright fool
ishness.
Nothing makes so big a ho,e in the
family circle as the absence Of the
littlest one.
Edison predicts that We will soon
be wearing clothes made of mineral
wool. We suppose they will wear like
iron.
The aeroplanist is naturally an
apostle of the back to the land"
movement.
There is a silver lining in every
cloud-but you usually have to look
for it.
The Standard Oil is light and
power company. 1t sells the lights
and uses its power.
The fellows who get up the folders
for the railroads and summer resorts
are sure-enough optimists.
A Boston doctor says the teeth
need exercise. Try a jumping tooth
ache, Doc.
In these good, old twentieth cen
tury days it does not seem to b.
stylish to be moral.
Most of us dislike old age, but few
care to get away from it by dying
young.
1t seems a shame to put SO much
money into battleships that We never
use-brt then there is nothing to be
gained by using them.
A school is suggested for the teach
ing of kissing. Teachers in a school
of that kind would have to get down
to the level of the students. 90
The sweetening power of saccharin
is 800 times that Of sugar .Mostsey<ry
young man thinks his first sweet
heart is made of saccharin.
1t has long been said that nothing
is certain but death and taxes. To
this ought to be added that the street
car will be slow when you are late.
A father who does not learn to
translate the strange language OF
baby tongues is not doing his duty
to himself or family.
In New York's 400" there are 4
who run things-the rest are the
ciphers.
Why not give the ballot to women
over 25 years of age, just to prove
that women don't care to vote.
Mr.. Bryan refused the offer of two
million dollars to take up his resi-
dence in Memphis. Can he be pian-
ming on making more than that liv-
ing in Washington at $4,000 a year.
A man was poisoned the other day
by eating hash. Didn't suppose there
was enough of any one article in that
table delicacy to have serious ef-
feet on the ultimate consumer.
A man will race around billiard
table for half day and think it fun
and would think he was imposed
upon If asked to pr. the baby to
sleep for tired wife.
A woman in the East says that any
person may live to be quite old by
working fifteen hours day and 60
ing without gossip, flirting, novel
reading, shows, dances, fancy dresses
and jewelry. A woman living like
that would certainly get quite old.
If the past week has not brought
to your sight some new thing Of
beauty in this old world, your eyes
have been useless.
Very few do wrong thinking that
it is right, so that If people could
be made to see or believe that there
is more pleasure. profit and happi-
ness in being good there would be
but little wrong-doing left.
A member of an eastern legislature
recently exhibited before his col
leagues cabbage head weighing 65
pounds. Even among that kind Of
competition 1t carried off the honors.
Works Of art over 20 years of age
are admitted to this country free