Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-08-07

KINDS OF mon IOT NAN lOdu VI nay.
The farmer is in the saddle and when
he comes to town the rest of us by
right should go way back and sit
down.
Ridicule, condemn, berate the mule
as you will, but there is one thing
about a mule that makes him worthy
of all wonder and unstinted praise
1t may be well to give a mules heels
plenty of leeway, but no one ever
heard of man, woman, or child be-
ing run over by mule. You may
set baby down in the street and
drive thousand miles at wild gal
lop down the street and not one of
them would hurt that baby. You
could not force a mule to run over
or step on child if you tried hum
bred years.
The sooner children are brought to
understand that idleness is crime
and that no amount of fine culture
can make them pass for valuable in
the worlds eye if they are unable to
earn livelihood, and so must be-
come Changers on" for others to sup
port, the better for them. That
daughter who helps her mother cook
and scrub, is far more worthy than
he who only paints and plays and
obliges her overworked father to pay
servant that she may not soil her
dainty hands.
Every farmer that buys an automo-
bile becomes good roads booster and
the best part of it is that he always
gives his boost in the shape of hard
work on the roads instead. of long
talks on the street corners and long
articles in the local papers telling
nothing that was not known before.
Talk is cheap but it takes money and
hard work to build good roads.
The editor of an Illinois exchange
is a public benefactor and when he
dies the people of this country ought
to erect monument to his memory
He has discovered a new way to get
rid of mosquitoes. He tells you to
/ simply rub alum on your face and
hands. When the mosquito takes a
bite it Fuckers his gazoople SO it can't
sting. Then it sits down in a damp
place, tries to dig the pucker loose,
catches it's death of cold and dies of
pneumonia.
Some women are awful touchy. A
widow has brought an action against
a paper which said that her husband
had gone to a happier home
While the young men of our town
will compare favorably with those of
any town about us, yet with our fine
school facilities there is no excuse
for loafng. If the hands cannot find
employment, keep the mind busy in
that which will profit, strengthen and
edify, for Satan always has work for
idle hands to do.
Did you ever stop to think what a
| great labor saver the home paper is
as means of communication with alb
sent friends? write to me often,''
is the last command the one break
ing away from home ties so often
gives to those left behind. In the
rush and hurry of every day very
few people nowadays have time to de-
vote to correspondence of the leisure
ly kind the people of other days kept
up with such unvarying punctuality
And here is where the same paper
saves world of trouble It is bet
ter than letter, for it contains much
that letter would not. Items OF
interest are in it that the writer OF
letter might not know or over
look. 1t is wonderful how eagerly
one devours home paper when a
stranger in a strange land
It's ten thousand times harder to
be generous 1t is easy enough t.
give poor woman dollar, but wher
it comes to following a straight line
being just in all things, just to God
to your family, to your children, te
all men, it is a different thing. Some
men are never just to their wives
They pay their cook SIS very willingl,
Saturday night, but when the hard
working, economical, painstaking wifi,
asks for little money on Monda.
the brute will say, "Oh, wife. wha
do you want with money!"
Whatever happens don't become
sour old man or woman. Old ag
should be a cheerful period of life
when the lanUthapad cho dn1yc ~