The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-03-31

body's table and victuals or on thu
baby's lips, dabbing it's nasty fee
in the food or in the baby's mouth
This brought the women of the Lame
again into fighting trim on the OLE
question, and now with the openin,
of spring, every well informed CIR
and unmarried woman is going tt
take notice of the eligible bachelors
and see II they spit, where they spit
whether they have fly screens at theil
doors and windows and fly traps or
the porch by the kitchen door. WheI
he is at meeting they will observe
whether he refrains from splitting
and If he calls the other fellow dowr
for it that will be an additional mark
to his credit if he does it in nice
way. For hundreds of years mer
have thought that they had to drink
chew and spit, and they have been
trying to regulate drinking, with the
result that it begins to look like pro-
hibition. Splitting is also a personal
liberty" but the girls are thinking
seriously of trying to regulate it
Within the week you hear men ap-
plying the same reasoning to splitting
that they have been applying to
drinking (now obsolete), and say
ing to each other, "Oh, like to take
a spit once in a while. If want to
spit do it, but am not like some
fellows, / don't go out and make a
hog of myself and spit myself to
death. There's reason in all things
Sometimes ] don't tak. spit lor
three months, and then may take a
little spree and spit all the time for
several days. But when / am done
l am done, l don't want to do it any
more till the notion strikes me.
When / want to spit, I spit; / feel
better after I have spit all I want
to-"
There was a fellow up before the
court the other day charged with
splitting, and he told the judge he
may have been splitting but he was
too spitty to know what he was about.
He didn't remember anything about
it, and if he had overdone the mat
ter he was sorry, and was willing
to promise not to do it again, or at
least not to spit to excess. The
Judge told him there was an ordi-
nance against it and IL he had vio-
lated the law he would have to suf-
fer for it and he stuck him for two
dollars, but the fellow had spit up all
his money and had to serve it out in
Jail.
Doesn't that seem natural? The
same things that men say about
drinking will apply to running off at
the mouth. Some say there is a
certain amount of "cussedness"
about man that has to be exercis-
ed in some way, and If he doesn't
do one thing he will do something
else. He may smoke, he may chew,
he may do any one of q dozen things
or he may do all of them, but give
him some outlet, some way of ex-
ercising his aggressive nature. IL
he were not aggressive he would
not be a man; il he were passive you
would call him a Sissy" and you
would not propose to him, or If you
did you might be sorry for it, and
The chances are you will be SORRY
so while we are talking,
girls, we will mention q few of the
sligibles whose names have been sug-
yested to us for honorable mention |
md some that we have observed Of
our own accord.
There are two very popular sub
ects that are being discussed In this
sonnty now by many people: marry.
ng bachelors and increasing the crop
rield a dollar an acre. and 1t seems to
% up to us to look after both sub
ects.