Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-11-21

fishing tackle always catches re
Newest fish. Jast the OPPOSITE In
matFim0ny.
| | always rest easy as long as my
audience yawns and looks sleepy,
hut as soon a. the people begin to
sit up straight and look q each
other I commence to look arOund
Cor place 10 light.
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Every time take layOff to
mind some OF my neighbours busi-
ness j return home only to find
that my own cattle have gotten out
OF the feed lot and destroyed lot
Of valuable shrubbery in my front
yard.
Girls worry almost as much over
the thought Of getting fat as they
do over the idea that the girl they
/ don't like has bought q hat and
waist Just like me one they have.
Ithave seen a lot of them try It.
but never yet ran across the man
\ who could fool his wife and the
brothers OF his lodge at the same
time,
Whenever meet o man who
keeps this boast fresh on hlsN lips.
9HI don't believe In beating around
the bush; always tell q person
| what / think Of them to their faces, :"
/ / know have met one more liar.
One Of the great griefs Of mar
ried mans life Is that his wife is
always jumping onto him FOR for
getting to bring the bread home for
lsupper.
A phonogranhic record or the,
convention at tete-a-tgte between
. man and q woman who had never
been kissed wouldn't attract much
attention at q party. M
!, en ~ s. a
There is this to say about the
man who Is run by his wife. He
~ never forced to smoke and chew
tobacco and drink whisky.
Il n -
we often read In books OF men
who made their dear old mothers
i promise not to do certain things
when they were boys and kept their
word all these years. Did you ever
know such man In real lief
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Answer to anxious inquirer; The
people pay no attention when you
hold hands and do your sparkling
la public. However, it Is well to
remember that while love Is bind
albecf our citizens are not.
MY young friend, don't you know
that you can't afford to gambler
You can't afford to spend any Of
your spare time playing poker,
shooting craps or engaging in pitch
at ten cents corner and five cents
"set." Yes, | know You had read
of men who had got rich at It, but
how many Of them were there?
What was the proportion to the
number of well-to-do men who went
broke following the same gamer
Where one man gets rich as gam
bier one hundred thousand lose their
all. You can't afford to mix gam
bling with any kind of business. Do
nothing but gamble and become an
expert as you can. OF course you
have seen young gamblers who wore
good clothes and always appeared
to have plenty of money. But fol-
low them for twenty years and see
where they wind up. When their
sight gets little dim and their
health becomes wrecked from sleep
less nights and other excuses that
always fall to the lot Of the gambler
you see different man. Their
clothes become old and ragged and
they become hangers-on In the
places where they used to rule.
They sweep and clean up things
for drink and q piece of money
to get bite to eat. They have no
home and some cold night the young
gamblers say TOO bad Old Sport
croaked. He was pretty handy
sort Of fellow to have around"
There is a new grave in the potter's
field in the next day and the world
wags on Just the same.