The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18

0\WN met me on the
~yM street, shook hands
NV and asked about
the family, etc. He
NJ " was smilin' and'
shore looked plumb joyful. | could
not recall ever havin' met, him. Fin
ally said, tip me your handle. ci,l
gobbler,, evidently ] have never met
YOU before" why says ne, I'm
Mr.. ----. You have known me a
long time" Sure enough had. but
had never seen him with.a smile Gil
his face. Then he told me that he
had read Thy little lay sermon on
Smiles" He said after readin it he
decided that as it didn't cost any
thing he would try it. He told NE it
had been SO long since he hal smiled
his face Cor the hide on his tace) had
got set and the first time he tried to
smile the skin made noise like
crushin' newspaper or putin thu
bark from a hickory tree. But said
he, II finally succeeded and went to
the house smlin, and" said he, iii
be darned il the old woman didn't
mistake me for stranger and SCI the
dogs OH me-" Like myself she had
not seen smile on his face and did
not know him. Moral: Smile and
the world smiles with you. | put a
grin OH his face. He'll make some
one else grin and some Of you Ions
faced, sad souled folk arc goln' to
wake up some mornin not knowln'
your nearest neighbor and You'll feel
that you are in strange community
because the people will all have their
countenances transformed by a smile.
All is well with the world; SO smile.
l amt worryin' none - speak OF
about the representations ior Dec
18TH. | figger that anyone who has
las have did) successfully combat
ed conditions of the past lolr years, |
has nothing to fear from netenrs,
earthquakes nor long tailed comets.
Bring OH the fireworks, I'm ready for |
'em.
1t has been said that to learn :, BITS
mess and make a success oi it ono
should begin at the bottom and work
up. Now wait a minute. Suppose Cf
you please) just suppose man makes
a business of diggin wells. Huh:
a fellow asked me if | ever sent
a girl kiss over telephone
|"Nope," says I. Once l. thought |
did, but later found that | was mis-
taksn.' And how did you learn vi
the mistake::" he asked. well, says
!, when saw the girl / asked ln1
f-shc got the kiss and she replied.
No, but Mamma did.
ITO Darken Gray Hair Use Sage
Tea, ADV. Now I rise to ask how
must we use it, internally, externally,
or eternally.
The only effective way to settle the
Mexican problem is to deal with cm
as we did in the early days with the
"lnjuns,' viz: Assume that the only
good Mexican rs dead one.
notice that a certain patent medl-
cine has become almost as popular as
lemon extract or "har OIL Must
have kick in it. What?
Things aren t. always - what ;r they
you ask. It's like this, a good many
danes who look quite swell when
dressed for the street would look like
a clothes rack if dressed in bathin
suit. (.
| read of a remedy for removin'
wrinkles. It's very simple. You get
the ingredients and make solution
and battle your lace in it. The skin
at once "tightens'' up and away 60
said wrinkles. I'm thinkin' of get II
tin enough OF it to battle my whole .
carcass in, because (unless grub gets
cheaper) there's goin' to be consider
able slack III my hide need tightenin'
up between now and wild onion time
If you have sunny smile
Put it on
We're only here little while,
Then we're gone
Put it on when things go wrong,
Put it on twill make you strong, |.
And help some weak knee'd friend
. along,
Put it on.
Mr.. Tightwad said to me, Jim,
want you to answer this for me
Shoot" says !. Well" says he, IF
should walk round the square and
on the east side meet tramp and
give him dime and ON the north
side meet another needy person and
give him nickle and then on the
west side give another party ten
cents, what time would it be-"
why" says !, If anybody except
yourself would do that | would say
the time would be quarter to g. but
if you should pull that sort of stunt I
would feel compelled to say it's time
to be gettin' ready for the millen-
eum."
The fanatics have taken all our beer,
And their laws have grow tighter not Il