The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-18
BRIGHT BITS
(By a Lady Contributor

BRIGHT BITS
(By Lady Contributor
Little things close at home must
only be handled in way to keep in
fiuential friends and patrons fond and
friendly.
Several towns in the state have in
augurated a "Please anG Thank You"
campaign. This is a fine idea. So
few of US use those words as frequent
| ly or spontaneously as we should.
Here in Ocala there is an abundance
OF courtesy. but "Please and Thank
You" campaign would improve the
city's manners, and some of the Wis
itors' manners. most delightfully."-.
Florida folks-are mighty foolish
folks in many ways. They import
honey from Ohio, and orange MARINA
ladies' from Los Angeles or Ireland,
when all about us are orange groves
full of blossom with bees humming
the live-long day.
The Lakeland Telegram wants to
know if women will be as careless
about paying their poll taxes as men,
when they are given the ballot. Or, if
after they get the ballot will they
want it by the dollars worth. Maybe
SO, and if we do it's our business.
/ NAY, nay, sister, it's the states bust
ness. as you will find when you have
Ito tell your age when your register
Editor.)
/ A winter visitor was heard to re-
mark the other day that in the future
all tree planting within the city limits
should be confined to palms, camphors
or some other trees that remain green
through the winter. If so our city's
prospects would be more pleasing.
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| Boston, New York and Washington
are all in stir over the beauty Of
Mrs. Wilson's new Paris bonnet. The
New England Retail Milliners' Asso-
citation declares that the presidents
wife has certainly started new fad"
both in design and color. 1t isn't a
maroon and it isn't rose. 1t is some
where in between, so the critics say.
Ocala's shops must get busy to the
slip" or be far behind.
Last Sunday in st. Augustine. Rev.
Billy Sunday said: "Some people
couldn't wear longer faces than they
do if God was dead. When they start
TO church they wear face that looks
like they were carrying tombstone
| under one arm. a Bible under the
other and embalming fluid running
through their veins, and they call that
religion. That is why lots Of folks
dent go to church because it seems to
them too much like going to flu
neral"
| Reputation is what people think
you are, and character is what you
are. Character lives and needs no ep-
itaphs' Love is the grandest thing in
! the world, and character the greatest.
You can't down 'em or burn EN-"
When our oldest inhabitant was
told the fare between Ocala and New
York by dirigible was only about a
| thousand dollars, his remark was he
guessed he would wait awhile"
You would think to hear some men
talk, that, they were the most miser-
able of creatures. Of this, one thing
| is sure, that if he fights the thing
right and wins out, that struggle is
what be will look back to with great
est pleasure. Slippers and rocking
chairs are all right, but fellow can't
ride in them to the top of the noun
tain of joy. You have got to get of
the porch and tramp over stony
ground if you want to reach the
heights.
It is difficult for woman to keep a
secret because her husband is always
so anxious to hear all the gossip.
Science has rung the bell on the
beauty problem Professor Somebody
announces, in scientific journal of
rare repute, that everybody in these
United States can become beautiful
by following his course. He says: ITO
become beautiful one needs only to
eat one onions, one-half pound of
spinach, half pound of cabbage, half
a grated turnip and handful of
/ cranberries each day" Half the
world has never known how the other
/ half got its beauty. Now the secret
lis out. We suggest that this course
be tried on some of the "beauty cho.
rusesn that travel in the road shows
If it makes them beautiful it will
have passed the supreme test.
Wanted: A position as press agent
for movie actress or ambitious socie-