The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-25

increased value and demand addition
al gratitude"
The term college bred" has been
as a 'four-years loaf"
b. father who had TO pay bill upon
bill for a sporty youth during a col
lege course.
One reason Ocala is so pleasant in
the winter time, is that we have no
frigid manners or icy stares for visit
ing friends.
Sleep is said to be a great beauti-
fer. Still many a pretty girl is wide
awake.
One hears a great deal about the
men who are made Knights of the
Garter. We wonder how they would
60 about it to decorate a lady men,
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The schools of our city, or any other
American city. have no duty more i'm
perative than to teach Americanism.
The rule of three is not so important
as the Golden Rule.
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We know a man in this city who
can knit, cook, play auction and trim
a hat-and he is not married. Here,
girls, quit crowding. A man who can
do all those things doesn't need wife.
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1t is said that hawk flies $50 miles
an hour, duck 80 miles and a pigeon
40 miles. All that information is very
good, but money flies faster than all
combined.
Mary Roberts Rinehart says, "as a
spooning proposition the airplane is a
failure" So is the automobile. There
was never a spooning proposition like
d rustic seat in a bower riotous with
honeysuckle and roses, with the moon
light filtering through upon star-lit
night in the springtime, and mock
ing bird singing his heart away in a
neiGhboring tree. The moderns can
have all their gas-smelling cars and
go to heck with them as far as we are
concerned, but give us love-making in
a coy nook built for two as per above
description.
Ocala is getting her share of tour
list travel by automobile. Many are
bound for the west coast and some
are en- route to the down-east section,
preferring the inland roads, for the
sake of stop here a few days to view
Silver Springs, and admire the I'M
excClled farming country.
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How many parents know how to
select wisely Christmas toys for their
children. An old toymaker once said:
Children sometimes get the toys they
want, but many times those their par
ents want them to want"
1t is our opinion that more homes
would be like heaven if wives were
doves with olive branches in their
mouths and hickory switches in their
hands, instead of emulating the par
rot with unlimited conversational at
tainments over their neighbors' af-
fairs, which is none of their business,
and exacting obedience from their
children.
A person must make the most of
his opportunities if he expects them
to make the most of him.
1t is the women of Florida who are
so very much interested in the sale of
the Red Cross Christmas seals. which
mean so much for the health ccndi-
tons in the state.
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What would you think if you saw:
Judge Williams playing marbles?
Judge Smith scoring at lawn ten
mis-?
Rev. Kirkby playing leapfrog?
John Galloway on a windy day
walking the streets wearing binders /?
Prof. Brinson full of alarm and ex-
element running to a supposed fire?
If you listened to a stenographer
for half hour and she neglected to
say "you know" at least thirty-nine
times?
If every property owner in Ocala
would clean up their alleys and yards
which surround or adjoin their attrac-
tive homes?
If you should take a lady out to din
ner and she should fail to pull out her
powder puff and dab her little squee-
zy, weezy, nozey nose?
If DR.. Peek, who is long, lean, slim
| and slender, should be standing on the
sidewalk and suddenly turn round?
If you should notice Mr.. George
MacKay wearing his kilties in TO ths
Christmas dinner to be given at {,
+, Harrington
If you should talk for fifteen min.
utes with DR.. Henry and he should fai
to consume during the conversation
period at least two cigarettes?
If DR.. Watt actually brought home
from his hunt one solitary wild tur.
key that he really shot-not that he
had bought?
If you should detect DR.. Parrish