The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20
FOUNDATIONS
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UNCLE HENRY

Dear EOlteT, ! TAKE uy PCu ."
hand to let you know about Smar'
Alecks of which they is some in TINS
town and they are nanny and vary
OTIS. A Smart Aleck is a man when
s.ys that doctors don't know no.
thing. they just guess at ii and then
after while when they have got TO
20 to the dOcter they get mad If he
don't say that therein is the most
unusuel case he has ever saw any
where \ Smart Aleck is also fell
Ter which says lawyers is all fakes
end had ought to be put in the PEN
i,cnchcry for there dishonest dOins,
lut il Il Smart Alcck has hors'
which has got scared and broke a
IN. strap from the Smart Aleck driv-
ing too close 10 Il trane h. hunts
up IA lawyer and trls 10 9rt HIM 10
Smart Aleck is II Teller which says
real estate men is rascelS and theafs.
ST. if You don't Want - get chceted
YOU have gol to by OF somebod'
hich aint goi no license To sell
land \ Smart Alcck is Teller
which says life insurance is wrOnS
hccase il is gamblin with deth and
when you want him to give a con
,rbbution to help a widdcr or "A or
l'hen he says H., amt "A goin to be
case il would b. cncurasHin other
men TO die and l"rNr there fammilys
unpervidcd for \ Smart Aleck Is
also "A Teller which gets mad when IL
a,nt in the paper about women
k. tchin her hushrnd buggy ridih
with somchoddy, he SAYS he knows
they Was paved 10 keep il out, bn
the publick has sol Il right to know
the news or what is the use OF havln
a paper and then some day You see
him %, mad when the paper
Prints in one corner Il copy OF the
l., al estate changes in which il shows
he has put the home place in his
81 the verdi besides or "" are con
wite's name could write NANNY
III; yes ahou, Smart \lrrkS They are
VERY amusin About the only time
yun can krtrh a Smart Meek tellin
| the truth is when they is "A hipnOtisI
| H. town. The Smart AlerkS get to
! 4, her on "A corner and raSe each 9TH
,rs bets about the hipnotist cOuldn I
| | pnotizc them. and if they would
would OF found out long ago that the
| h 81 hipnotiSt i'm the world cant hip
nutize Il toolishmndcd pcrscn be
cas-. there brancs is too scarse anG
too much scattered around.
II | was To make one rule .whici
YOU could alters REFER to In tindilt
1
a Smart Aleck will say. A Smar
! Alcck is "A Teller which trys to maxi
hisself notised by saying sOmethin :
which noboddy else says, and IN
res, of MS beim kinder hopeful In our
dispositions a Smart Aleck is all're
locking on the dark side until after
verbs when he says he knOwcd how
it would happen. A Smart Aleck can
alters tell in 1913 what is gOn "a
happen in 1910
| would not like to have the Smar'
+ Weeks killed off Life would nor ~
"a intcrestin as i, is if such was
be the case. At the same time | aH
stand what is IA Smart Aleck al
what is a man of Judgment. y SIM
.tleck can do harm in a town eslFa'
tally new town if people don
know how to take him. The h'S
way to take him would be by the ma
e. the neck but | can't do not ia
like that becase he alters makes uia
laugh more than he makes me mac
4 Smart Alcck will alters say rs
improvements In town rascs
taxes. lie thinks that is awi
Funny you never ketch one of Il D"
sayin that improvements rascs 'h
value of the proppety, which You IN
knows it dos. Another thing he sat
is that the new people in this to "