The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-25
BRIGHT BITS
(By a Lady Contributor)


The visitors to Florida should not
go home yet. 1t is the early bird that
catches the flu.
Marion county real estate is good
investment. While the county is not
such great agricultural center,
values are permanent and there is
solid foundation. This county will
always be a favorite agricultural sec
ton, and will always enjoy certain
amount of the tourist patronage to
the state. Greater efforts however
should be made to interest tourists in
the city, and to prevail upon them to
become permanent residents.
Wealth makes no difference in a
person-he is either good fellow or
he isn't.
Responsibility is not on the mar
ket. It's something money won't buy.
$50
Somebody says there Is special
room in hades for the time waster.
He is classified as two kinds of var
mint"-a premeditated time waster,
ard time stealer. So long as a time
waster harms no one but himself, he
is not so obnoxious. but the time
stealer, who filches the time of his
employers swift going hours, he is
among the ones the fellow of the
crimson fork is working the elevator
for.
PIGGY wiggly grocery stores are
growing all over the country. They
are stocked with standard brands of
goods. All packages are on the coun-
tiers like IN dry goods department
store. You pick out what you want,
put it IN your basket and pay as you
go out. No clerks, no charge ac-
counts, and no chance to complain
about substitutes.
A former rail splitter residing in
the western part of the county spent
Tuesday in the city visiting among
his friends and seeing the pictures at
the Temple. Since his last visit to
town the old gentleman has lost much
of his usual abundance of hair, and
his friends improved the occasion by
teasing him about approaching old
age. eyes," said the kindly old gen.
tlenan, when I was young my head
was as soft as any of 'youall's,' and
had hair to SELL"
Aristocratic relations have nothing
to do with mans real character.
Cain belonged to one of the first fam
lilies in the land, but when he got mad
he was such bad man that he killed
half of the young men in Asia.
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John Walker Harrington in the
Popular Science Monthly has put
forth the theory that man without
an Adams apple is a poor specimen
Of fish. He says, 'fDon't hide your
Adams apple. young man. Keep it
in plain sight, for it is a. sign of
brains and courage
#F%a
The latest fashion edict is that we
are subject to a revival of the old
fashioned nightcap (not the liquid
kind1. We sanction the movement
most heartily for the occupants of
sleeping pofches. With your ears
well covered, you can't tell when your
neighbor rambles in late or the auto
mobile preens its whiskers at the COR
ner.
Everything. comes TO those who
wait, provided they wait long enough,
says an old adage, and we've been
waiting 10 these many years for the
track skates" that have at last made
their debut. Popular Mechanics gives
the thing, after our own heart. Now
gysying for US has acquired its new
est thrill.
There's one real quiet house in
Ocala at this writing. The mistress
forgot and put her tongue to a hot
fiatiron Hence the silence.
Muzzlin' makes dog safe, while
it makes young lady dangerous. Yet
when the hot weather comes we will
| all need muslin.
Some old wise somebody said that
"love is blind" Well, maybe so, but
we know one lover in Ocala who car
see a good deal more beauty in his
sweetheart than we can.
"Oh," said Miss Nellie Stevens Il
the infant class. did any of you ever
see an elephants skim" 'T have,
exclaimed one bright little lassie
| Where, dearie?' said Miss Stevens
"On the elephant" sweetly replied
the little lady.
Talk about the wind blowing thu
mosquitoes away. one of them face