Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-02-05


termed. Probably the men prisoners
We're trouble enough.
It's burned poor man in these
days who cannot own some kind OF
an automobile.
We will begin to believe that prices
are going down when we can buy
cigars once more six for a quarter.
Well, anyhow, so far this winter
we haven't been called upon to spend
half the day shoveling the front
walk.
The war being over, we can now
turn the editorial blue pencil to the
household recipe department and
conditions in Mexico.
A lot of people declare the news
from the Peace Table is uninteresting.
What were they looking for at a
peace conferences fight?
Isn't it about time for another SEN
sational murder in Vermont? Any
newspaper Office would cheerfully
supply a list Of perspective victims.
The news reports declare that
some of our conscientious DIRECTORS
refuse to be released This may be
another cause for some of our penal
institutions being looked into.
The news from Europe says that
Hindenburg is beginning to look tired
and care-worn. An exchange sug-
gests that perhaps the old man misses
the vacation he had planned to take
in Paris.
Many good Prohibitionist could
sue his face for libel and get a YER
dict.
The measure of really good wife
is how much her husbands pipe buzz
yes in the bowl without her saying
anything about it.
Watch man putting up pictures IN
a house. He can usually get 'em up
as fast as he can get up stoveplpe
slow.
A Ford can do all but one thing;
it hasn't yet reached the point of per-
lection where it will start before the
fifteenth turnover these beautifully
celebrating mornings.
Doesn't it beat the Dutch what a
lot of worthless old junk furniture a
man and a woman can accumulate
around the house after ten or fifteen
years of married life?
You can have all the new tangled
heating systems you want but youli
never get a regular little old home
sweet home until you can toast your
shins around a coal fire on zero
night in a base-heater parlor stove!
The village schoolmaster called IN
the office yesterday to say ne agreed
with the newspaper Photographer VINO
called attention to "the footnotes that
will be necessary to make most OF
Bobby Burns verse Ineligible to fu-
ture generations"
We wouldn't mind paying IL cents
for cigars if we got IL cent cigars.
War stories in the magazines are
getting somewhat skipped over.
Better unload your goods, folks.
Prices are coming down."
It would be mighty fine idea to
have government ownership of the
Hearst papers.
We trust that now it is over, some
one will not neglect to write a his
tory of this war.
Some folks won't send in any items
because the neighbors might say the
paper was improving.
One of the satisfactions of peace
is the Liberty Bond one has in his
strong box.
You can tell a camp soldier from
one who's been through hell by the
way the former hangs onto his uni
form.
Maybe the boys who come back
from Siberia will have some CONVEX
sation with Fuzzy LaFollette over
the sincerity of the Bolsheviki.
Somebody remarked tardily that
there would have been no howl OF
protest if Congress had left the
country for the Peace Conference.
. The editors, the lawyers and the
lawmakers are now at Montpelier
The preachers and the carrier bows
are still producing fairly readable
papers.