The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-25
WISE AND OTHERWISE
Contributed

you a Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year. MAY you live long and
prosper" When you time comes to
hit the golden chute, we hope st.
Peter will provide you with an ashes
tos union suit.
Some of US are born clever. some
become clever, and ther are others
who just imagine they are clever,
even as you and l."
Even a live wire woman cannot keep
a dead secret.
Some folks run into debt in tour
ing car and run out of it in hearse.
Talk about a woman not being able
to throw! She can throw a hint or
fit when occasions require, and don't
you forget it.
Not every man who goes on re-
stricted diet these days does so on his
doctors orders. More often it is his
bankers orders.
Somehow we are forced to believe
that the world is growing better
especially since the ministers of the
state are condemning the Pa per cent
church oyster soup.
We read that there is at least one
place on earth where a common citi-
zen's life is safe. That's Bermuda,
where an automobile isn't even allow
ed to make one honk.
Everywhere in Florida they are
voting bonds for good roads. Marion
county is putting it off, but will either
have to come to it soon or lose much
In the long run.
We have discovered that a decayed
Doth is far more dangerous to the
health than a fly in the soup.
A girl standing under the mistletoe
may be kissed by any man who finds
her there. But haven't you noticed
how they are not standing there if the
right fellow isn't near?
TIC find nine peas in pod is fore
runner of good luck. But when you
ind more than one oyster in a stew
you know the chef is a philanthropic
creature who cares nothing for the
loss profits.
Be courteous to strangers. 1t is a
mark of good breeding. Courtesy to
home folks too often is a sign that
there is company in the house.
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The price of shoes has gone so high
that there is some advantage in being
one-legged. A friend of ours says
that he loves old shoes because he
knows that new ones will put an awful
crimp in his pocketbook.
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1t is easy to distinguish the good
citizens from the otherwise" in
Ocala, by simply looking into their
yards.
Every woman who has shape like
whaleback freighter knows that if
she could afford to pay SIS for a
made to order corset she would have
as good figure as anybody.
Now that we are to have wartime
food control. the housewives will be
Put to the necessity of buying their
excess sugar supply to keep it from
being confscated.
/ hid 1,o,, oua, ,,o+ico hour r,orroc 1,o4
on mans mind and worry him to
ocath?
/ How different to observe how a man
gets mad all over if he can't get a
seat in the front row at a theater
And gets mad all over if the usher
leads him to a front pew when he
goes to church.
Don't tell a girl she is the first you
ever kissed. It's time enough after
marriage for her to find out what a
liar you are.
"Begin the new year right" says
a writer. "Be original and create an
atmosphere of your own" Well, we
should say so. Any old skunk has
scents enough to do that.
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The world moved and that rapidly
Just now are the young men beginning
to realize the truth of Plato's pro.
Iphecy. "When a beautiful soul har.
monies with a beautiful form anc
the two hearts seem cast in one mould
it is one of the fairest sights to hin
who has the eye to contemplate the
vision" The present day girlies have
eyes just as attractive as in days Of
good old Grecian lore, and we know
they are sweeter.
Many a couple go before the Judge
and get a life sentence for speeding
J along the highway of love.
Everything comes to those whC