Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-10
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen

A Swede was courting his girl one
night, and, overcome by the tender
passion, asked her to marry him.
She readily consented, after which
both were silent for a long time.
Finally the girl asked Ole why he
didn't say anything He replied, Il
tank der bane too much said al
ready"
A woman of Seattle, Wash, adver-
tised for young man TO whip wife
beater. She was flooded with appli-
cations. She selected a young man,
six feet, and weighing 190. Her
prize was $40. This young man said
he would do the job gratis; that it
would be pleasure to do it. The pa
pers say the husband has not been
able to be out since the job was COM
pleted.
To steal a kiss is natural To buy
one is stupid Two girls kissing is a
waste of time. To kiss ones sister is
proper. To kiss ones wife is obliga-
tion. To kiss an ugly woman is gal
lantry. To kiss an old, faded woman
is devotion. To kiss a young, blush
ing girl is-quite a different thing.
To kiss ones rich aunt is hypocrisy.
kissing three girls on the same day
is extravaganza.
There are great many people who
labor under the sdelusion that what
was once known as the drop letter"
can be mailed with a One-cent stamp.
That is a mistake. Every sealed let
ter, even if it contains only printed
matter, requires two cents. So does
written letter whether sealed or
not. These rules apply as much to
letters addressed to people in Ash
land as to people in San Francisco.
Look most to your spending. No
matter what comes in, if more goes
out you will always be poor. The art
is not in making money, but in keep
ing it; little expenses, like mice in
a large barn, when they are many,
make great waste. Hair by hair
heads get bald, straw by straw the
thatch goes off the cottage, and drop
by drop the rain comes into the
chamber A barrel is soon empty if
the tap leaks but drop minute.
At a funeral of well-known sa-
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making the usual announcement that
"an opportunity will now be given to
view the remains" thought to make
a change in the announcement and
said, An opportunity will now be
given to pass around the bier" And
quite a number of old fellows in the
back part of the room wiped the SYM
pathetic tears from their eyes, re-
moved their guilds of tobacco, spit
out of the window and awaited re-
suits.
We live in what may be termed a
superficial age. A man or a woman
is judged by clothing and external
appearance-not by intrinsic quail
ties. We wear diamonds to show
that we are well to do" We wear
fine raiment to show people that we
can afford it, We live in stone-front
houses to prove that we belong to
the upper class. To discern charac-
ter, which, after all, is the thing of
greatest value, we must look beneath
the exterior surface, for such virtues
as honesty, consistency, humility and
character, which are the attributes
of the best people.
Every community is divided into
workers and shirkers, hopers and
mopers. The workers toll on cheer
lily, daily contributing to the prosper
ity of the place and full of hope and
plans for it's future. The shirkers
hang back, contribute nothing to its
welfare, criticise those who do and
talk despondingly of things in gen
eral. Strange as it may seem, it is
easier to be a worker than a shirker,
and ceratinly it is a good deal better
all around Then, also, there is the
satisfaction of knowing that ones life
amounts to something. Therefore
don't shirk, work don't nope, hope.
1t is estimated that the great school
army eligible to school privileges in
the United States will number ap-
proximately fourteen millions. OF
the total number about one-half of
them are between 10 and IA years
of age; those from 10 to II consti-
tute less than 13 per cent and those
of IS and over about 5 per cent.
There is a significant fact in the re-
search which was made in estimat-
strength of the school army of the
United States that out of the entire
number of children ranging between
and years of age available only
half attended school; of those from
10 to IA years of age substantially
four-fifths, and those of from 15 to
II a little over two-fifths.
The boy stood on the back yard
fence, whence all but him had fled,
the flames that lit his fathers barn
shone just above the shed. One
bunch of crackers in his hand, two
others in his hat, with piteous ac-
cents loud he cried, Il never thought
of that" A bunch of crackers to the
tail of one small dog he'd tied; that
dog in anguish sought the barn and
mid it's ruins died. The sparks flew
wide and red and hot, they lit upon
the brat, they fired the crackers in
his hand and exc those in his hat.
There came burst of rafting sound
the boy! Where was he gone?
Ask of the winds that far around
strewed bits of meat and bone, and
scraps of clothes and balls and tops
and nails and hooks and yarn, the
relics of the dreadful boy that burned
his fathers barn.
Land offices report a great deal of
| inquiry for vacant land in this state