The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-09-19
OBSERVATIONS

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boy suffered terribly from ground
itch, has the worst kind of money itch |
now.
Keep busy! Did you ever see a fly
sit on boiling pot?
Have you ever noticed how very
much men are like needles? They
never get through with their work
unless they are pushed.
The weed nuisance in Ocala is a |
matter of personal responsibility to
the lot owners. Appearances disclose
lots of laZineSs.
How often it is that the fellow who
stands on the sidewalk and condemns
the speeding car, is the first fellow
when he gets in one to speed by some
one else.
Health experts of Cincinnati say
that it is very unlikely that the in
fluenza epidemic will return to the
United States this fall, and we are
glad to extend such cheerful news to
cur readers.
In all the papers we see where
Uncle Sam is selling army blankets
to his nephews and nieces. The price
is the only thing about them that's
shrunk-and that is kept under cover.
If you want to keep your strength
use it; if you want to get tired do
nothing.
The littlest girl and boy can't I'M
derstand why ice cream isn't the best
cure for stomach ache.
Which can say the most, a woman
with a mouth full of hair pins or a
man with a mouth full of tobacco?
When a young man gets into his
head the idea that he knows it all,
there is nothing to be done but to sit
down and wait for life to knock the
notion out of him.
A Marion county farmer was in the
city few days since, and a few
hours later was observed with a new
pair of shoes under his arm. He said
to the writer that he brought in a
cow hide for sale and by adding two
dollars to the amount the hide brought
he was able to get the shoes.
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In some cities housewives have or
ganized to quiz middlemen on the
high cost of living. Bet when the
quizzing is in full swing there will be
number of the quizzed who will wish
they had never been born, or at least
had some some milder form of punish
ment melted out to them.
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While Paris is demanding knee
dress as the ultra in the new winter
styles, American women are waging
successful rebellion against modes
of dress that are unlovely and i'm
modest. While the styles of skirts
will be close and somewhat shorter,
American women will never permit
knee lengths. Dame fashion demands
the modest ankle length skirt, and
broad enough to take an honest step.
Glory be!
Plant your home garden this
month";; lettuce, mustard, carrots,
beets, onions, English peas, beans,
turnips, potatoes, radishes, etc., and
before Thanksgiving you will be revel-
ing in fresh vegetables independent of
the trusts and the packing combines,
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GERS.
Did you ever notice how much the
average cook book recipes call for?
One has to almost buy a grocery
store to produce simple bread pud-
ding these days. What we need is
simpler recipes and simpler eating.
The war helped some in this respect,
but not nearly enough. Added to lots
of common sense, the home-maker
needs simpler food. People would live
cheaper, work better and laugh hap
pier.
We have a bunch that air travel
will never become popular until some
body invents a soft way to hit the
ground
Our enemies have to live with their
bad qualities. We don't. so let them
| alone.
Water hyacinths analyze about the
same food value as the spineless cac-
tus. Burbank made great fame by de-
veloping the spineless cactus, but the
old lady who upset the tub of hya-
cinths into the st. Johns river near
Pslatka, starting them in Florida, is
unknown to fame. 1t is probable that
the hyacinths have saved the lines of
hundreds of cattle when other feeds
was scarce. It's an i'll wind that blows
nobody good.
The Wilmington Star says: "Flor-
ida has river known as the Okla
waha. It's a wonder how people can
dwell on that beautiful stream with
oct taking all their time to write
poetry. The Suwanee in Florida and
Swannanoa in North Carolina have
inv oked the muses."
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