The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-04-10

| pEeCldCe the nOnOr OF the term PLAIN.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says the
man who is riding sixty miles an hour
In big machine is no happier than
the man who is riding thirty miles
per hour in a fiivver, because the man
in the flivver thinks he is going sixty.
"Just a plain example of mind over
! facts" said the other one.
There's one good point about Eliz-
abeth's husband-she does not have
to spend a year and a half each
morning getting him out of bed and
off to his work"
well, thank heavens, one of the
girls got a self-starter. Why didn't
you have that much sense?"
"You wouldn't let me-" retorted the
happy little wife.
One of Marion county's oldest in
habitants who lives in an elegant
establishment not many miles remote
from the southern boundry line, re-
ceived letter short time since from
his son who is working in down-to-
e-minute store somewhere within
| the city limits of Ocala, and likes
both his work and the town very
much. In the letter the boy said:
dad, Pm having wonderful time,
both socially and in business way.
Thursday / motored out to the coun-
try club, where l golfed until dark.
Then motored to Silver Springs.
And / Sundayed at beautiful Lake
Weir"
In reply the father wrote: "Dear
Son: We are sure missing you, my
| boy. Yesterday we, your ma and me,
buggyed TO the commissary and jaw
ed all afternoon. Then we went to
t the dance last night with the girls
and they polkaed till morning. To-
day / muled out to the cornfield and
gee-hawed until shutdown. Then
suppered and piped for awhile. After
that we staircased up to our room and
bedsteaded till the clock struck five
J when it oughter struck four). God
bless you. We are having a good time,
too"
"Have you any bird seed?" asked
an earnest customer at the seed store
Saturday noon.
"No, of course not. I'm no fool; you
need not think you can kid me.
know enough to know birds are hatch
ed from eggs and not from seed"
Ocala numbers among it's citizens
men of wealth and great influence,
politically, socially and otherwise.
They are doing much towards the up
keep and upbuilding of the city of
their adoption by shedding their sill
yer, like the moon. May their kind
ever prosper and their shadows in
crease (silver shadows, too, if you
please.)
Baltimore recently dropped young
teacher from the public schools be-
cause she insisted on teaching Boil
shevism. She is interested in all the
questions of the day, and particularly
IN social movements, says the Balti-
more News. She is a socialist, fire.
quent visitor to the open forum meet
lings and an ardent suffragist. 1t is
our opinion that she should be made
an example of that the school boards
of the country may not forget to be
cautious in the selection of teachers
to guide the youths of the land.
$50
The past few days have been so
cold we have almost despaired of
warmer weather, but Monday morn
ing Miss Springtime tripped into the
city with a bundle of brilliant sun
beams under her arm and we are hap
Ply once again. Nature is wonderful
" coquettish and changes her moods
as quickly as fashions and eyebrows.
But she has a clock all her own, a
clock that is never ahead of time or
behind time, and never runs down
and never strikes a hundred and
forty-six at two o'clock in the morn
ing, as a certain town clock once did
where he lived for more than twenty
years. Yes, spring has certainly
come TO stay this time, sure, for the
oak leaves are now larger than squir-
rel's ears and the Georgia fruit grow
ers have enjoyed their annual squeal
for frozen peaches. Also, Uncle Billy
has preend his whiskrs into the latest
springtime twirl, and is looking
mighty nifty.
"Hey Silas, that ground is certainly
rich; it's as black as you are"
eyes, sur, boss; hit sho is black,
but hit1l grow grass des as fine an
green as you is"
A mans ability should be rated by
what he finishes and not by what he
attempts. Smartness enables him to
catch on and wisdom enables him to
turn loose.
Miss jeanette Rankin has returned
to an enforced private life, but just
the same a woman has served in the
United States Congress. That's some
thing not IN forget