The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-08-02
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/ test. But we are ready to bet oul
first gray hair that when they came
! to choosing their husbands, they
didn't even ask TO see blueprints. II
they had, some of them would be rank
old maids.
Some folks are such sponges ii
doesn't even hurt them to go out in
the rain.
Observing the bathing suits at
Silver Springs this season, they run
in rings of rainbow hues and are al
most as thin.
Some liberal doses of paint would
help the appearance of Ocala wonder
fully. Early fall is good time to do
painting.
A woman doesn't have to go up in
an airplane to look down on other
women. It's a streak of cussedness
in the nature of the beings, as natural
as breathing and as old as time.
1t is nightfall that leads US back
to a lonely dwelling to look upon
scenes and into the chairs about a
hearthstone where our children once
were but never shall be again. Sor-
rows so overwhelming are sufferings
no thoughts can bring reconciliation
to, as memory melts into tears.
Neither on earth, or in the domin-
ion of the fatalist, do rivers flow back
to their source. So it is with human
nature, even tho they look deep into
the weak spots of destiny's armour.
\ past is beyond recall.
Folks and automobiles seem to be
moulded after the same fashion. Both
have appendages that must be cutout.
People make hard lives for them
selves when they allow their tongues
to get the better of them. Life is
like a rose, the harder it is pressed
the sweeter its fragrance. 1t is for
us to keep out the bitter.
$3.50
From recent reports Ocala is soon
to be full of knockers. But they are
to be carpenters and builders. Hur-
rah for our little old town. She'll
wake up yet.
Speaking from a visitors point of
view, "Ocala is little city with won
derful possibilities and it is unfor-
tunate that her environments have
been so neglected" All of which we
regret to confess is the truth put in
its mildest and most polite form
Ocala is wonderful and Silver Springs
the unrivaled beauty spot of the
world. But we are out of style, or
rather out of tune with progress.
Some one has said zone may as well
be dead as out of STYLE" This is a
statement which means little to the
right thinking people when person
alities are concerned, but as applied
to a city wishing to be first in the
swim of progress, it is all right. Truly
it may be confessed, Ocala has got to
stiffen her backbone and take up the
burden of getting ready for the COM
ing season. She has got to get a
hustle on herself and put on some
tourist airs, if you care to term it that
way, if she wants to win results. She
already has one of the finest golf
courses in the state. but there are
other things to be considered. There
are numbers of hotels and boarding
houses within her limits. The point is
to work with the material at hand,
and rightly conducted every hostelry
would soon be filled to overlooking
with guests. Since this is the sea-
son for the development of plans, such
as setting our houses in order, build
ing flower beds and trimming up the
laws, let every one get busy painting
and whitewashing to make every
available nook and corner attractive,
for cleanliness and order go a long
way in making an impression on the
tourist element. Tourists are not go
ing to spend their time and money
with us for nothing. They are like
the honey bees, they gather thickest
where the nectar IS sweetest and best,
and all Florida is wise to that trick.
Public tennis courts, the park, quot
grounds, croquet and innumerable
other attractions will be. necessary to
hold even a few. A necessity of vital
interest to the motoring element, is
the public auto campground, and to
the observer widening of the Silver
Springs boulevard from Oklawaha
avenue to the boat landing is of very
great importance. The road as it is
at present is in fairly good condi-
ton, but because of its narrow wind
ing way, the pleasure of motoring is
greatly diminished, especially at night
when autoes pass so closely as to
necessitate blinking their lights con-
tinually, and turning off the roadbed.
The natural right of way is, we un-
derstand, broad, so broad that an