Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-23
Wise and Otherwise

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the steps to give the alarm when the
President comes to the Capitol, not SO
many of them would get caught away
from their desks.
Vincent Astor, who recently went in
to farming, has been sick with throat
trouble. Perhaps he had to do too much
hollering to the horses when he plough
ed up the lack pasture. .
DR.. Sargent of Harvard says that ply
sical training and exercise would cure
women's unrest. The broom and wash
tub has always been considered benefi-
cial in this respect.
The bankers, manufacturers, law
yers, and ministers can learn the prop.
er time to put on the straw hat. by
inquiring of the college students.
President Wilson is going to Panama
when Congress is adjourned. If he
waits until then every one else will have
seen it first.
Of course it is pretty hard to have all
your vegetable gardens tramped down
by the boys of the neighborhood who
are playing ball, but if the boys ran
around, the runners might get another
base.
While the ownership of the steam
roller passes from one hand to another,
the model seem to differ but little from
year to year.
There are still q few people left who
think you can get business by turning
a lovely and secluded country scene in
to slum bill. board
Prof. Tafts opinions are extensively
reported in the newspapers, but he
will have to get out with gun and
shoot something, if he is going to draw
81 per word from the magazines.
Holland farmers are coming to this
country on account of the high rents for
land at home 1t is much better to live
in country where you don't have to
fence off the bottom of the sea.
Mothers day was celebrated in many
homes by having Mother get up an
extra course dinner.
The new straw.hats put on early this
year will look yellow by the time you
get out on your vacation among the
summer girls.
Everyone favors cutting the frills out
OF the school sysem. but some people
feel that those long cube root examples
in the old arithmetics were more frilly
than the bread-making in the new
| domestic science courses.
| The railroads are asking for higher
rates, and the stockholders are picking
out sunny rooms in the almshouse in
| case the petition should not be granted.
! A Southern Congressman speaks at
the Gettysburg reunion this year, and
the bloody chasm will be we'll filled
with sandwiches and doughnuts.
The striking school boys will never 90
on a hunger strike as long as mother
keeps on making pumpkin pies.
The Suffragists are charged with
making a "sex appeal" through their
clothes, but they can't be expected to
wear rain-coats all the time.
The University of Toxic is trying to
get ball game with the University OF
Washington, but Congressman Hobson
has not yet used this as an argument
for more battleships.
The 50,000 postmasters who have got
to take the civil service exams are
perhaps wishing now that they hadn't
spent quite so much time in throwing
spitballs. .
Some playful congressman hoisted q
stuffed donkey when the tariff bill was
passed, but strangely enough the Con-
gressional Record does not mention the
incident. The city editor of that pub
hcation should get some reporters with
news sense.
The base ball umpires at least should
have fellow feeling for the President
of Mexico. .....
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