The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-09
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But in the face of fear and suspicion
and tradition Columbus "sailed on"
The lesson is one for life.
| "Don't take onto your heart more
than you can kick off your heel" said
comforting friend Thursday after
noon. But it was hard to see the
train go round the bend and have to
sit and smile.
Whisper it, sing it, say it by phone,
everybody's happy to have the soldier
laddies home.
Twas the day after Easter. and all
Through the house, the children were
told to be still as mouse, for grand
ma and father and Unkie Jim and
Aunt Sue were all laid abed with-oh,
not the fiue, but the effect of having,
as the little boy said, "gormandized
secopiously" at the festal board.
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The Florida Chief says eff you want
tc help some fellow who is down and
out, shove few kind words to him
instead of canned advice, and some
times put in a few grits and shackles
of silver for good measure. 1t all
helps to stamp your image indelliby
in his memory" And keeps the train
from leaving you.
Sentiment in a man is of no ac-
count if it does not come forward to
strengthen him for the better dis
charge of the duties which devolve
upon him in the ordinary aaffirs of
life.
There is a lot of apple in apple but
ter, and sometimes of late we find
lots of butter in buttermilk.
| We ate so many praties during the
war that every time we look spud in
the eye the little critter has to wink
and smile.
A popular contemporary. who ev1-
IDENTIFY eats dried apples for break
fast, drinks water for dinner and
swells up for supper. gives US the fol-
, lowing pleasing information in regard
to the difference between "dried ap-
lples" and "dehydrated apples" He
says: "The principal difference is
labout ten cents. Of course it's the long
named one that catches the exclusive
people, while the ordinary title "dried
apple" is so blamed blase that it car
ries bad flavor for the fnicky. But
all the same, he says: Don't those
good old dried apple pies taste good
Gee, when they have a crust as flaky
as springtime and as white as a snow
storm under the center. and with q
dash of cinnamon and allspite, just
Ienough to give it a zest-by golly
: there's no dessert that's finer. / like
to talk about 'em, and and hear about
EN-, even if l can't eat 'em today"
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Castor oil seems to be the only
+ beverage" that is exempt from tax.
alton.
Bright Bits Fifteenth of June wed
, ding is to take place in old Virgins
on the twenty-fifth, the latter date be-
o
Q who looks so like unto the foam OF
! the very top of a frosted ice cream
soda.
II The best thing to do these hot sum.
mer days (but not the easiest) is tt
laugh at all worries that belong tt
r yourself and the other fellow.
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y The tongue of devil, once it gets
/ a clinch on an object (person) never
loosens its hold Or withholds its ter.
4 rible, horrifying lashes.
II Spare the cats and swat the rats
: Uncle Sam says that a pair of rates
1 in five years have been calculated tt
increase at the rate of $4,000 1863
This same pair of rates in one yeal
. have at least $40 descendants. Al
3 cities in the south and west are plan
D ming "rat" campaigns. Let "extermi
4 nate the rat" be your summer slogan
"Here, you little, blue-eyed, cotton
e topped rascal, / want you to under
/ stand you've got to be good. You ,un
e derstand me, when tell you YOU
]. daddy is putting in an electric switch
n upstairs for convenience. and if you
e don't mind me hereafter Pm just go
: ing to fairly take the skin off tina
little hide rack of yours; do yer heal
me?"
Il And the wicked old nurse fell ovel
t III her chair fairly exhausted. MAY
h be-" she murmured in her agony
"dem words will hep me some thr,
s the mex day or two. He sho am ;
s scoundrel,' God bless his sweet ittl
e SOUL"
= A certain philosopher says, 9TH
e most consoling thing about going t
It the movies is seeing so many womel