The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-09-07

Americans die each year, it is esti-
mated?
Heart disease, pneumonia and tuber-
culosis cause more than 80 per cent of
deaths!
The U. S. Public Health Service is
the nation s first line of defense against
disease7
Sickness lowers earning capacity?
Disease is the nation s greatest bur-
den!
Sunlight and sanitation, not silks and
satins, make better babiess
Low wages favor high disease ratesl
A female fly lays an everage Of 100
eggs at a timef
Poor Villa! He's dead again.
It might, however, be hotter.
Short chunks of wisdom: Heat waves
are hot.
The field of journalism contains few
journals and lot of waste paper.
Keep the town clean-and, ditto, your
self.
It takes poor proniser to live up to
his own promises.
Every town has its human side, but
| it takes a human to find it.
Now, all together, and for every
known ill: "The war did it,
Life in high society is just one ofin-
ity after another.
The bad luck of most people is of
their own creating.
Success seldom clings to the coat
tails of the chronic crouch.
Weighing your words is all right, pro-
| vided they are worth weighing.
| Campaign issues, we note, are usually
made for campaigns.
The political pot is boiling so hard
it is splitting all over itself.
Occasionally however, the roar Of our
political candidates is heard above the
battle front.
There is always bright side to life,
but people who hunt gloom never find
it.
Swimming advice: When diving fill
your lungs with air instead of water
You III live longer.
War still wages at the front in
Europe and over the back fence in
; America.
Sunshine is healthy, but the shady
spot Of a tree is darned comfortable
on hot day.
"Most people act natural while a
: Sleep AYERS an exchange. Including
we might add, the snore.
We are frank to admit that dead mel
tell no tales, but lot of tales are tol'
about them after they are dead.
Death is not worrying us, but to b
forgotten after death induces us t.
cling tenaciously to life.
The fellow who considers himself tn
!, wise man Of town is generally rated b.
others as the biggest fool.
A bee is mighty little thing, bu
it can make the LATEST man in this tow
8 hump along at a lively gait.
Il The vanity Of some people is equale
i only by their vanity, and you can a
y ways spot them in any crowd.
~ Brains and energy makes splendi
q team, but in single harness neither
z worth hot dog.
y A maid with a mind is one of kin
d that keeps her steady's nose to IL
[nH grind. Yes, it s original.
u That American inventor who claim
to have harnessed the sun can alwa,
u make an excuse that the harness brOk
e. Stick to the farm brother and "
e. won t have a horde of bad debt collec
e. ors sticking to you.
r! No, we can t say that we are entire
= unbiased as to the war i'll Europe. .
~ sympathies are distinctly with Americ
II If all sinners were suddenly remov
u from this world we would still ha
"a editors and few others left.
u Every time fisherman discovers
q dark spot moving on the crest of t
e waves we hear Of shark or Germ
r. submarine.
n A city exchange displays prominent
n column entitled, "Where Club Wo
III en- Are" Human beings are not MI
~ toned.
u Villa hoe tho hanny faculty of cntti