Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18

We can forgive the hair Drained mutt
49,. VINO trumps his partners ace;
The bonehead who buys mining stock
may have SOfne saving grace;
There may be circumstances when we
can forgive the goat
Who takes a woman out To row and
ga1ly rocks the boat;
We may. perchance, dea lightly with
the chump who hands his friend
n carefully prepared cigar which shoots
sparks at the end.
The man who borrows our lawn mower
and Keeps the thing a week.
May have some saving qualities of
which we nay we'll speak;
But We cannot find one kind word OF
any sort to say.
About the gink who says: odd man,
you're looking bad today"
TRIED AND TRUE.
When all else fails and thoughts are
blue.
When Fate does all that she can do
TO disappoint and test your grit
When nothing goes exactly right
And You are harrassed day and night
Ana ceaseless worry and dull care
And there's no comfort anywhere;
When friends you've always loved de-
And hand you little Sights that hurt;
| hen disappointment reigns supreme
And rudely skaters every dream:
When you have been misunderstood
And old time friends lambaste YOU
good.
And nothing seems to be worth while
or fit to cause the faintiest smile,
There's one friend who will stick to YOU
No matter what the rest may do,
TO comfort you and smooth YOU brow
And in Il manner show you how
The. world might be Il whole lot worse
And teach YOU to pass up the hearse.
This friend l speak or. many know.
With cheerful air and all aglow
It's Friendship fingers, old and ripe,
1T is your good old brier pipe.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Constant Reader-We must positively
branch of the Ananias club. Perhaps
YOU have no idea just how reaching
this organization would be or the diff
hcu!ty that would be Encountered in
finding a lodge room with accommoda-
lions sufficient for the needs of the
order. Almost any other kind of II club
we Will take pleasure in organizing. but
nOt an AnaniaS club-nOt in this town
or In any other.
-Perplexed-You say you are going
to a wedding and that you don't know
the proper remark to make when you
congratulate the bride and groom. 1t
is always proper to say II wish you
both many happy returns of the day"
That creates a feeling of optimism all
around and IL much better tina the
old fashioned salutation: May all of
your trouble be little ones"
FREEDOMS CALL.
Erasmus Binks spent many years be-
hind the prison bars.
He grew most mighty tired OF the
brand of prison fare
n wished to get back home where
he could breathe the open air.
u many thoughts of by-gone days
went coursing through his mind
n he thought Of the patient wife
whom he had left behind.
He yearned for freedom constantly all
through h night and day.
untll he got his courage up and then
he stole away.
"Ah, ha.' I'm free at last. he cried as
he approached his home.
Right here III stick In quietude and
never will roam"
see. ned been away so long he
hadn't heard the news.
His wife had Joined the suffragetes and
had absorbed their views.
The freedom he had hankered for
turned out to be but drOso.
me patient wife that once ned known
was an ~exacting boss.
In dead OF night he tramped away. his
$780, III W.
He hiked back to the same old Jail and
broke right in again.
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LITTLE HOUSEHOLD INTELLECT
TIES.
o the square. Mag. I'd lust about
as soon eat toothpicks as these here
snoestrtng potaters Of yours"
more to stop hanging your hat on the
corner OF that picture in the parlor and
then I'll 90 home to mother"
Who hlled my whisky decanter
with vinegar? What do you want to
do. collect my life insurance?"
new hat. and you had one
IN January that cost SIS and I can
wear q = hat for three years. No won
der the young men are afraid 6f the
cars nowadays when 1t comes to get
ting married"
THE HEIGHT OF -
Absurdity-T0 expect that anybody
is Soing to stop and take you out rid
tng In an automobile unless you own a
car yourself.
MISUNDERSTANDING . man 4 black
y IN exchange for q broken nose.
Amiani!ity-Allowing your wife Al
most half Of h liberties that you en-
joy yourself.
Reepectabinty-Reading the Con-
greesi0nal Record on Sunday.
Observation-Disclosures your mother
inlaw tosa ~ after he has stolen
stand the vrit'ns q Henry james.
THINGS THAT MAKE. LIFE
WORTH LIVING.
Having the life insurance premium,
the ren aud the lodge duNs become
teAyoblo simultaneously.