The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-06
BRIGHT BITS
(By a Lady Contributor)
The high point in spring dressing
will be the paying of the bills.

Marse John, jes' look at dat new
moon lying up yonder on her back
skidding along o. the treetops, so
putty and clear. 1t am a sho' sign
dat a dry drowth am coming. What's
mo Marse John. when you see her
slide down like dat, yer can jes' get
yerse'f busy plantin' yer beans and
sweet corn, caus' evenings alright,
but bless gawd son, when yer sees
her lookin' dat bright and rizin' in
Gle east, yer better look out"
Ocala is noted Tor IT'S many advant-
wise, but none more so than for its
healthfulness. More than forty years
ago one of Kentucky's favored daugh-
tiers CAME to Ocala and purchas-
ed a home In the third ward, home
place, which comprised an entire city
block within a short distance of the
courthouse square and quickly trans
formed it into an Eden spot of beauty,
with growing plants and citrus fruits.
Through the years she has practically
attended TO all her own work.. and
althc' today she is nearing the three
score and ten mark. she is the first in
her neighborhood to rise in the morn
ing and the last to retire to her couch
IL. the evening. In all that time of
residential years in our midst, she
has denied herself the pleasure of
seashore or mountain trips In dur
ing the summer months. and only
once has physician been called to
attend her physical needs, and that
was to blow some moss dust out of
her eye.
There's nothing in the world that
so quickly transforms an otherwise
good-looking people into corkscrew
glide, as rheumatism, and it's good
thing that the diseases favorite VIC
Tins are among the erich and very
wealthy or the world would soon
have a reputation for exceptional
freakish looking population.
$50
The heather Chinese torture system
has nothing on the American girls
present styles of short and narrow
skirts. Convulsing was the scene of
not long ago, when a handsome
young lieutenant tactfully observed
the. contortions of pretty girl as she
tried to mount the postofice steps, in
a sister city.
There's no cure for the pangs of
love but matrimony.
The man who thinks he Is burden
ed with more than his share of
trouble, is merely ignorant of what
Others are called on to bear.
We often wonder why people just
must pass the car ahead-perhaps it
is because they are in hurry to reach
the undertaken.
A lively joke is being told on one of
Ocala's retired judges. Returning
from an all-day fishing trip. his chauf-
feur made a dash to speed up a bit
The kindly Judge reached across, tap
ped the driver gently on the shoulder
and remarked, please slow down a
minute, I've something to say to you"
When the car was brought TO almost
standing position, the judge said,
Frank, you drive slow; Tm\ paying
for the gasoline and I'd rather get
into Ocala ten minutes too late than
into hell ten minutes too soon"
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The forty days of Lent recalls the
VERY curious part that 40 had played
in the worlds traditions and customs.
The deluge in the Bible lasted 40 days
and 40 nights. The Israelites wander
ed 30 years in the desert. Members
or the English parliament cannot be
ARRESTED for 40 days after every pro-
ration or 40 days before a new par
/ Lament convenes. The time-honored
sanitary quarantine is 40 days. Luth-
or said man had to live 40 years be-
fore he could decide whether he was
a fool. Fair, fat and forty is one of
our familiar proverbs. Forty stripes
was the rule in Jewish castigation. At
40 a man is supposed to change his
entire physical self. But why 40 /? No
one has been able to answer. (Forty
with the Jews was not a definite num-
Der. 1t simply meant a good many
Editor).
To keep on the road to perfect
health, one doctor tells us, to smile
in the morning. Another says turn
summersaults. Well, well smile if
some one else will turn the ripper.
/ We wonder now that Charlie Chap
I'm is married, if he is getting those
nice custard pies that he is so fond OF.
Does your husband enjoy good
health" asked a neighborly old lady
of Mrs. Cobb yesterday. "Oh, yes;
well-er-that is, he could, but he is
never happy unless something is the
matter with him."
LII France needs lady bugs, why
does not Uncle Sam send over cou-