The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-04-04

politics. They will forget all differ
ences of creed and color and rush to
the aid of the helpless whose cry has
called unto them. The old world is
full of love. Sympathy often comes
the quickest from the most unexpect-
ed sources, to hear the unspoken Ian
guage of another's heart.
Are you training your child to have
brain and heart, Or are you letting
it grow up to be a creature of senses ?
There are plenty of comfortable
American homes in which no books
are ever read but the trashiest, no
music is ever heard but the rattle and
bang of ragtime, no pictures worthy
the name, adorn the walls. Viewing
the cheap and insipid day after day,
impresses false standards into the
fluid minds of little children, and par
ents should have care to the things
worth while
People are always quoting the fam
Gus writer who said the more that
she knew about people, the better she
liked dogs. Sometimes the editor of
bright Bits feels that way too. But
whether there is a good cause for ir
or not, we are very sure of one thing,
the more we know about dogs, the
better we understand people, espec-
tally if we see them together.
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The best blessings of life are the
lessons of our own blunders.
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Home is the place where self-asser-
ton finds it's freest expression. Near
ly every home contains a tyrant, and
the influence Of that one tyrant ex-
presses itself in all kinds of petty
but far-reaching evils. In many
homes every member of the family is
self-assertive. There it is that we
find the most shocking disorder.
There are comparatively few homes
in the world where there is self
control, consideration for others. en-
enlargement of those qualities that
make for peace and happiness.
ooh, Madame S., do you think your
booklet, Heart Poems of Silver
Springs will live after you are
dead?"
"Can't say as to that" replied the
little lady, "but," she added, 81 wish
they'd let me live while Pm alive"
***
"Tell me, dearie, on what grounds
does your father object to me-"
"On any grounds within a mile of
our house," sweetly replied Miss
Mary.
The Boston Transcript says fattery
is a sort of moral peroxide. and turns
many a woman's head.
A wise old sage says, at takes only
few minutes to find in others the
faults we can't discover in ourselves
in a lifetime"
"Holmes!"
"What? ?"
81 was just thinking said Mr..
Norton, show nice it will be when
Sunday comes and we can go down to
Delks' Bluff, sit on the green bank by
the beautiful river, eat fried chicken
and smell orange blossoms and-er-
Oh, get out! l wish it was Sunday
now"
|. "Alice, did you Call Uncle Buckner
up this morning and tell him what
hour to be ready for our picnic"
Eyes, but he wasn't down"
"But why didn't you call him
DOWN."
Because he wasn't up"
"Well, listen; you call him up now,
and call him down for not being
down when you called him up"
1t was a very sweet and very young
little lady that sat with the editor of
Bright Bits at a popular confection-
cry parlor Thursday afternoon,
munching away at delicious ice cream
cones prior to going to the matinee
at the Temple theater.
"Oh," says the little girl, show good
the popcorn smells"
s'Yes; which do you like the best,
popcorn or peanuts ?"
peanuts" she replied, quickly.
"But does your mother approve of
your eating peanuts on the street or
at the theater?"
Mother approves. She's got no old
fogy ideas. can eat peanuts or any