The Harrison times., 1917-09-08


-Risking the charge of iconoclasm
for daring to dispute the well.known
adage, we nevertheless maintain that
there is no fool like a young fool.
Away down in her heart every
married woman knows that il she
let her husband have his own way he
would go and make a fool of himself
Where there is will there IS a
way Recently a man in an adjoining
town wished to attend a show. but had
not the means. To steal was not hon
orable, and to beg he was ashamed.
At last a happy thought struck him.
He went into a grocery store and
bought a package of coffee on time,
and sold it for cash down the street.
This gave his money enough to enter
the show and buy refreshments.
An exchange is again agitating the
scheme to name all country roads as
streets are now named, and to number
the homes along these roads The
plan is a good one and should be
adopted by country roads. At present
country roads have no designation ex-
cept as incidentally falls to them, and
it is often difficult for strangers to
find their way without making fire.
quent inquiries. Name your roads and
let the name appear on each corner.
1t will then be easy to find any house
in the country as it now is in the
city, where the streets and numbers
are given.
What is home without a pa
per-" A home without a newspaper
is no home at all 1t is a kind OF
dreary den-a rendezvous of bedbugs
and fleas, where the inhabitants live
in blissful ignorance of what the world
is doing. 1t is inhabited by a class
who do not know who is president or
what he is president of-who never
find out that thing has happened
until long after everyone else has for
gotten it. The children grow up in
rags and dirt, while the wife gener
ally finds consolation in darning socks
and Juggling a pipe loaded with long
green tobacco, and the man generally
lives because he can't die and he is
too lazy to kill himself. He goes OFT
on election days, and does not know
who he is voting for, but just takes
the ticket bearing the name his great
great grandfather voted for.
"A critical young lady was re-
Gently heard expatiating vigorously
against the silly way that women have
of kissing each other every time they
get together. She said; 'If twenty
women were to meet in the street
every last one of them would have to
kiss the other nineteen, and there
would be-let me see-3S0 kisses
worse than thrown away, for probably
in ten minutes the whole party would
separate into squads and go off talk
ing about each other. When you see
one of these violent miscellaneous,
kiss-everything insight kind of a wo-
man, it is safe to set her down as a
fraud, which she generally is. If |
had my way, kissing should be con-
fined to family uses and for medicinal
purposes. Now, don't you put my
name to this or | will kiss you right
on the square the first chance |
have
There is a growing impression
that the public school may take a
wider range than the mere elucidation
of mathematical problems or the un.
folding Of natural and scientific laws.
1t is now held that boy cannot too
early regard himself as a citizen Of
the Republic, and be taught along with
a clear idea of such responsibility a
| loyal reverence for the flag and the
names that have perpetuated it.
Should the first day of every school
| year be given over to a semi-social
review of public affairs, to the car
| rying of banners, and the singing of
patriotic songs, it would be a day well
spent, The Republic has had already
very serious problems before it of race
and of the amalgamaton of nationali.
ties and religions, The children in
the schools today must be equipped
not only with education, but the 10y
atty to solve these problems.
There can be no greater mistake
that a business man can make than to
be mean in business Everybody has
heard the proyerb of penny wise and
pound foolish. A liberal expenditure
in the way of business is always sure
to be a capital investment. There are
people in the world who are short
sighted enough to believe that their