The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-04
PITHY PARAGRAPHS

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 Tne svonan who has a house full of beantieul rugs seems to think they need airing quite frequently. Her neighbors with only a few haVe differ ent thoughts.
 A Chicago physician urges people not to eat eggs, for the reason that they are full of dead matter. in the dorm of lime. As near as we can rec ollect, everything 8 man eats ds dead Why don't those people who say they would like to live on a farm. go there and live? That's where several millions of live workers are needed at this moment.
 There are women. plenty of them, who appear to have been made out of mans backbone And they didn't leave enough Of the bone for man to use when he needed it
 Tanne was when the family nedi- cine chest-t1ae old corner cupboard was considered aib1ndantly supplied If it contained a bottle Of Balm of Gi1ead, a. bottle Of camphor, a. bottle Of opedeldoc and little salve.. Now the average 6an1ily closet contains enough vials and boxes to start country drug store. besides a skele- ton or two.
 The Pittsburgh chief of police warns women not to carry money in their stockings The tender-hearted fellow must be afraid they will catch. cold when they reach for the purse on am Winfry day.
 If those Paris women who. wear plug hats and go without stockings. think they are creating a furores they in the Garden of Eden when fig leaves were all the style-aIld only the style
 A New York man has been fined for importing a few cooks from Europe, in spite of the fact that there are so few real cooks in New York. An order has ben issued forbidding the importation of arms into Ireland. The British Governanent doubtless knows that the shil1e1ah is the only effective weapon. Four Of Ben Johnson's plays re- gently sold for $1,O0O each But that does not benefit poor old Benrhess been dead these many decades. 
 Convicts now receive high school course Still, they are not permitted to go outside of the walls and play football with the teams from Grass Valley. has been charged, but he has never | yet been charged with kissing a poodle or carrying a wrist-Warch
 
 German officers whO have been in the habit of walking rough-shod over l rough jolt by their government, 1t having been discovered that the peas- ants are really human and have in- mortal souls
 | An ordinance has just been adopted at Manila, prohibiting che sexes from appearing on the streets unless fully dressed. Not so very long ago a wo- man in that climate considered her. self right in style when she had a bunch of flowers in her hair and a bright ribbon around her neck. | That New York society woman who is going to the Philippines as a mis- sionary should not forget to leave her paint and powder behind. The climate out there supplies all the color nec- esary. and it's generally pink and brown.
 ! The woman who takes off her tango Igarters instead of a red petticoat, and waves them at a train approaching 9 broken rail or burning bridge may Iaccomplish her purpose, put it is more l likely she will scare the engineer and fireman to a standstill. | A London female doctor says that ] many colds are caught by kissing
 
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 No one has ever smoked a cigar that i tasted and acted like the first one he ever smoked out behind the barn.
 An Ohio editor demands the eldnai. nation of Few of the costly eads and the placing of greater emphasis or studies in OUT schools which will in sure high school graduates with sn- fcient training to speak correctly and write intelligentiy. Right he ts-
 A Russian baroness has sued St Louis man for 2,SOo.O 900 for breach o1 1 promise of marriage. He feels indat- ed-a baroness-jrst think of tn -ri The poor fellow might have courted an American queen with much less expense.
 Dorothy Dix says that marriage makes change in man. In a sense she is right; it thakes the change away from him-out of his pockets.
 Adam and Eve were never obliged to worry over gas bills, ice bills or the milkman's visits. Neither did they have to visit department stores aIons about the Holidays.
 Many people admire the binding a; the book they received as a Christ mas present more than they do Wha, is found between the covers.
 When we look over the back fenc, on wash day we are iInpelIed to be live that life is one long succession Of union suits.