The Pleasantville press., 1912-10-30
Terse, Tart, Timely
Short and Snappy Sayings to Interest
Old and Young

! do the very best know how-the
very best can; and mean to keep
doing SO until the end. If the end
brings me out all right, what is said
against me won't amount to any
thing. If the end brings me out
wrong, ten angels swearing | was
right would make no difference
Abraham Lincoln.
If you are farmer you will support
good roads, because your farm will
Increase in value, you can raise more
profitable crops, your cost of hauling
will be lower, you can market your
products when prices are best, your
children can get to school, your fam
lily can attend church, your physician
will be in closer touch with you, your
boys and girls will stay on the farm,
you will have better mail service,
more social life, and happier condi-
tions all around.
AS the motor car rolls past with a
dog on the seat, the thoughtful pedes-
trian sees ragged little child in the
gutter, sharing carmine lollypop
with typhoid fly, and he thinks how
much better things would be if the
dog and the child might change plac-
es. If the child might have the dogs
seat in the gliding car and ride
through park and country in the gol-
den autumn; and if the dog might lie
in the gutter and consume the child's
aniline confection, how much better
for all parties concerned, possibly ex-
cepting the fly. But things are un-
I1,-1
mucilaginous lollypop is eaten by the
child, whose stomach it will under
mine; while the dog, to whom the
cold tar delicacy would mean only a
barkish night, rides through ruddy
October scenery that suggests moth
ing to its animal mind but raw beef
steak.
Strong drink is the. cause, directly
and indirectly, of the degeneration Of
the human race that is now proved to
be steadily going on. This was one
Of the statements made by dozens of
the experts in medicine, hygiene and
.eugenics gathered at the recent In
ternational Congress Of Hygiene and
Demography in Washington, the chief
purpose Of which was to devise dis
ease remedies and recommend re-
forms in living in the men and wo-
men Of today Representatives at
the Congress from New York City
made an exhibit showing that alco-
holism carries off every ten days as
many people as were carried to their
death in the wreck of the Titaic-
1862. Other portions Of this exhibit
showed that 66.5 per cent Of the
crimes committed in New York occur
in saloons, and that so per cent. OF
the remainder are committed by per-
sons under the influence of strong
drink.
A New York physician writing in
the New York Sun on the subject of
hay fever makes the unequivocal dec
laration that the disease is boon in
disguise. He also offers some brand
new facts on the subject. In the
first place, he says, hay fever is not
caused by any kind of pollens; on
the other hand, he says, it is a ner-
vous disease, and an outlet for GER
tain poisonous matter for people OF
a nervous temperament. What, IN
other natures, declares the doctor,
would settle in some parts Of the
body in the form Of tuberculosis or
kindred trouble, is periodically
thrown out of the system by hay fe-
yer by people of this temperament.
1t is great safety valve, to De thank
fully received and nursed and cher
ished accordingly. This is cheering
advice to the members of the great
"sneeze army" Hay fever victims,
therefore, can cheer up in the fact
that annually they are made over"
into healthier individuals and that
the disease is worth while merely to
make one feel so good afterward.