The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-05-21
BEADS ODDLY STRUNG
(By l. d. Claire.)


The busy life hurries most as II
closer approaches its sunset
go
Intensive attention to one single
purpose will work miracles of
achievement
The world of men and women is a
filter college than the schools, only
the course is so long few may live
to complete it.
Reading people, l would not pick
out one man in a thousand for my
wife's second husband, nor more than
one woman in a hundred for a pas
sable step-mother.
l find a strange pleasure in stand
ing on busy street corner and read
ing the faces of the shutting throng.
| Expression, carriage, dress, expose
ones biography to the close observer.
About two per cent are worth while
and the rest are useful to feed the
profiteers; fill up the show houses
and contribute to the collectors of
funds to feed the starving gold fish.
"There is always something tou'h-
ling to me about the relation of moth
er and babe" remarked . mag tc me
today as we were passing young
matron leading her pretty tot "Ev-
erybody respects it," he went on, land
a woman on this street, at midnight,
leading a child, would be free from
the. approaches of the boldest liber-
tine" Had you thought of that be-
fore?
"The Lord did not go to the
palaces of the rich nor to the halls
of state to choose his apostles, but
to the ignorant fisherman of Galilee,"
said the minister Sunday, and l
nudged the madam with my elbow
and whispered, 'if the Lord went
hunting for apostles now, he'd go
straight to the mouth of Grassy"
Just to be agreeable some folks
will be agreeable. l met one at a
show the other night. The film
showed mammoth whale washed up
on the coast, being burned for rid
dance. Great clouds Of dense smoke
were pouring skyward, and l re-
marked to a lady in the next seat,
isn't the stencil of a burning whale
sickening?" It is simply awful" she
replied, placing her handkerchief to
her nose in self-relief
I went to Macauley's a few nights
ago to see the famous De Wolf Hop
per. AS wild wolf, De Wolf is no
doubt some wolf, but he was tame
that night, just like his less kingly
cousins. The smallness of the third
night audience confirmed my convic-
ton of the tameness of the wolf, and
I'd have demanded a refund at the
box office if hadn't gone in on
pass.
| paid my first visit to the races
at Churchhill Downs, few days ago.
and stayed just forty-five minutes
by the watch. But in so brief
time I'made a number of discoveries.
One was, If you don't bet you don't
want to be there. didn't know one
horse from another, and didn't car
peanut which won. | also disco'-
cred that women are more frenzied
gamblers than men. The Lord pity
them. Another discovery was that
seyenty-five per cent OF the crowd
lived away from Louisville. New
York, Detroit, New Orleans, st Louis
and Chicago. were there, white and
black. Sports and thieves and har-
lots in great numbers were there.
Shame on Kentucky that it is one Of
the three states in the Union that in
vites the scum of the earth within its
borders, by legalizing gambling
p. S. II tobacco man in Louis
Vile should run against Tom Sweat
for president I'd be in HI OF
fix. He gave me ten pounds of to-
bacco, and told me when that was
gone to come back. | don't think
Tom has any more.