The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-29

years ago. He is remembered be-
cause of his gossip and not because of
his craftsmanship. One of the entries
in that book is: "The cook has de-
parted after a stay of four days. We
have had three or four others In as
many weeks. We don't have any luck
nowadays in keeping servants" Is it
the luck of 1919 or the fault of the
modern mistress?
Can a cross-eyed girl tell the diff
ference between the new Victory red
which has become so recently fash
red? We can't. Ocala's dummy police
must be the "most stylish" things IN
the county, then.
"And Christopher Columbus thought
the earth was round" said Uncle Bill
ly, his back to the warm morning sun
and his face TO the future. which con-
sisted of fiat waste of sand and dis
lance of dead trees hung with Span
ish moss. "Yes, and he was burned
right; Ell, daughter?"
4
every cloud has its silver lining"
said Cousin Ted, pushing his travel
ing cap into his bag (the one that he
had worn from Ohio and setting his
silk hat on the back of his head with
care and jauntiness, tho his hair was
dripping from the early evening rain.
81 wanted to come south by water
and study the possibilities of the
country. Well. I've studied. Instead
of an automobile should have rid
den a bony-featured, fly-bitten, lop-
cared, walleyed. faded mule. It's a
taxi good enough to journey in, or on,
in rainy weather"
Since our arrival in the city some
months past, we hear a great deal of
gossip. And the thing that impresses
US almost more than anything else, is
that Ocala gossip is exactly like the
1 gossip in Asheville. Palm Beach and
maybe Key West or Martel-or per-
haps, Romeo and Juliette.
"And you do believe that the whale
swallowed Jonah, Uncle Bill?"
"Sure as gospel / do, daughter, be-
cause Jonah was Jew. and Jews are
slick"
Chewing gum may be removed
from the hair, and ink stains under
the thumbnails will in time pass away,
| but the woman who talks too loud in
the street car or at the movie theater,
| cannot he chanOed
tho a woman be as honest as child
before company, yet will she 'fibilie'
to the man she loves" Wonder what
he knows about it? He should at least
Inow enough to understand that in
some woman's eye lie is but half q
truth.
1t is hoped that Ocala viii be well
represented at the good roads meet
ing to be held in Daytona on April 2.
And that they will do something else
besides talk, and talk, and talk. Of
course, everyone knows Ocala men
can do something else besides talk.
! They are most proficient in the art of
smoking, too.
Over on one of the city's popular
avenues, there is a tiny bungalow,
snuggled close within the shadows of
a luxurious camphor hedge, and bor-
dered about with vines and fragrant
blossoms. "The lord of the manor"
while not an honest to goodness reg
ular war colonel, is by virtue of his
profession, affectionately dubbed with
the title and partly, too, because of
the dignity of his age. However. de-
spite his years, which are-he is an
extremely young looking gentleman,
with his hair so soft and silvery gray
THAT is, it looks soft, any any one
but the blind can see that it is gray.
The question of vital interest to his
friends is this: Does he maintain his
youthfulness through exercise and
drinking Salt Springs water? Some
folks think it is because he comes
from a long lived family. Speaking
tactfully he viii tell you that his
father and grandfather lived to be
eighty, or was it ninety? Anyway,
certain it is, that if a man is born
with a disposition to enjoy youth in
old age. or vice versa (for his teeth
and hair to come out) all science and
determination cannot help matters for
him.
We are not for or against tobacco