Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-01-30

/ Practice makes perfect, but there
are already enough piano players tC
supply ell reasonable demands.
once knew an old fellow who
had cast so much bread upon the
waters that old age found him bust
ed and In the poor house.
What has become Of the old fash
toned father who always wound the
clock about nine thirty as hint to
the young fellow that 1t was time
for him to go so the gal could
get to bed?
MY friend. you are always and
eternally talking about your trou-
bles." You never give them rest.
The real facts are that you are bear
ing no cross, Your pathway is a
road lined with roses and sweet
smelling flowers as compared to
some of your neighbors. know .
fellow whose life was one contin-
ual song. Affliction overlook him
and he hasn't walked for three years.
But he never complains. He never
puts HIS cross on display, If you
had half of his troubles for week
the daisies would soon mark the
place where you went under. know
another man who lived an honorable
life until ths SHOWS OF sixty years
covered his head. He had accumu-
lated lots Of this worlds good and
lived in comfort. In an evil day he
made bad investments and soon he
hadn't a place to lay his head. He
was forced to accept work of the
most mental sort to keep starvation
away. He only smiled and thanked
the Lord for the better days he had
seen. There isn't an hour Of the day
that you can't 60 out on the street
and run across some. poor devil who
is thousand times worse off than
you are. You ought to offer up
thanks that you are alive.
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The salary travelling man Is
getting never cuts any figure with
the girls If he works 1t right. 1
There would be more old bache-
Tors, too, If there were more level
headed girls. There would be more
old maids, too, If the price of mar
riage licenses were raised to thirty
dollars.
/ may be a little impatient, but
1t seems to me that the Fool Killer
Is long time in catching up with
the fellow who still insists on cam
ming peas and putting them on the
market.
I heard a young fellow say the
,ther day that "there are a lot of
Kings father doesn't know" You
yet there are. There are lot of
hings about that boy father doesn't
Lnow and 1t is blamed good thing
or the boy. But there are lot OF
hings father does know that would
urprise the boy. Father was q boy
,nce himself and we'll remembers
he stunts he used to pull in his
Wild endeavors to fool his father.
Father may say nothing about the
race game being played on him,
nut he is thinking all the time. He
sn't always asleep II his eyes are
hut. Now mother is comparatively
asy to fool. Father knows that,
or he works that same game HIM
elf occasionally. But the boy who |
trikes the easy stride under the i'm t
IMPRESSION that there are a lot OF 4
hings father doesn't know had bet h
Or put ON the brakes for brief spell 3
nd take another invoice. Those v
igars you smoke on the sly--father b
My grins. The little bills you owe b
nd fail to pay-father looks sad p
nd goes down in his own pocket h
nd makes it good. You don't hear h
ny more about it and go along in v
ne even tenor Of your way with a
he idea that you have done some v
ling smart in skinning somebody G
ut of few dimes. No, you are Il
Of fooling father. a
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Brother Philander," said Ito our n
,ss deacon the other day as we Q
ere walking home from morning q
.rvice, "does Brother Gasswell still D
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