The citizen., 1914-07-17


A newspaper out West refused to pub.
lish the Ten Commandments for fear
that some of its readers would think
them too personal and stop the paper.
| Did your wife take a vacation during
the past summer? II not. see that she
gets one next year. Every woman
needs, and should have, rest and recrea.
ton, surrounded by new scenes where
all Of her cares may vanish
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Many people will not drink city water
tor fear of disease germs, but the same
people will clean their teeth in the same
water and think nothing of it. If there
are germs in the water it is just as bad
to use it for cleaning your teeth as it is
totake il into your stomach.
Editors as rule are kind hearted and
| liberal. An exchange tells of a sub
scriber who died and left fourteen years
subscription unpaid The editor appear
| ed as the lid of the coffin was being
screwed down and put in linen duster.
a thermometer, palm leaf fan and a
recipe for making ice.
\
An exchange has discovered that
poor girl has to be awfully good looking
to be pretty, and rich girl has to be
awfully homely to be ugly 1t might
have also added that poor man has to
be awfully smart to be intelligent, and
rich man almost blockhead to be igno-
rant
Yes, these are hard times" We
throw away ashes and buy soap. We
raise dogs and buy hogs. We grow
weeds and buy vegetables and brooms.
We catch fish with 81 rod. We build
school houses and then send. our children
| away from home to be educated. And
at last we send our boys out with $40
gun and SIG dog to hunt 10 cent game.
You can sit on an egg case on the out
side OF your place of business until the
flies blow you, if in the summer, or un-
til you freeze to death, ifIn the winter, and
never draw any trade. Get up and hustle.
Advested in machinery? If not, do SO,
and you will see how important it is, that
you take special pains to prolong your
life. Advertise your goods-get rich
live long-die happy and then go to
your reward with the proud thought that
your wife and children are not in the
poor house.
Farmers, it is none OF our business but
now is the time to see that all of your
farm tools are properly cared for and
when you are done using them see that
they are carefully put away for the
winter. Did you ever stop to count up
how much money you have now in
vested in its term of usefulness?
That tired feeling" according to
Bavarian pat .ologist, is not superin-
-duced by the warm weather, as has been
supposed, but it is caused by a specific
bacillus. He has succeeded in insulating
the germ and is now studying it. II is
to be hoped that he will succeed in find
ing the serum that is needed for its
elimination from the system. If the hn
man race can get rid of the lazy germ,
there is no reason why we should not
have universal prosperity for short
while. But the venders of fishing tackle
will suffer losses.
Labor is the source Of wealth. No
other means of producing wealth have
ever been, or ever will be found. 1t
must be wrung from the soil by patient
toll; it must be brought up from the
mines deep in the earth by the labor Of
man, it must be coined from the forest
by the axman and the millman; it must
be wrought out from the raw materials
by the skill. the patience and the labor
of human operatives The curse of this
and all other communities today, is that
so many persons are trying to escape
this Heaven ordained law, and to secure
something for nothing-wealth without
labor of their own.
The man who saves something every
year is on the sure road to prosperity.
1t NAV not be possible To save much. Ii
not, save little. Do not think that
dollar or dime is too small sum to
lay by Everybody knows how little ex-
penditures gets away with large sums.
But very few seem to think or know
that this rule is one that will work both
ways. If "a dime spent here and dollar
spent there soon makes large hole in
a mans income, so do dimes and dollars
laid away soon become a visible and
respectable accumulation. In this coun-
try any man can make himself independ-
ent. or else keep himself under the har-
row for life. according as he saves or
spends his small change.
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In regard to our schools, parents have
duties to perform which they can i'll
afford to neglect. They should show to
their children that they have an interest
IN the school They should examine
very carefully the reports sent by the
teacher. should see that their children
are in school every day, and punctual;
should assist and encourage their chill
dren to do all of their school duties faith.
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