The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-10-02
OBSERVATIONS
(Contributedl

(Contributed)
A lady told US yesterday that she
did hope the opponents of woman's
suffrage would not be guilty of entic-
ing rats or mice to hnger in the
vicinity of the polls on election day.
It's a neutral person indeed who
can cook angel food and devil food
cakes on the same afternoon.
If there is one special thing, more
than another, that flies are noted for,
it is backsliding.
Let "come south" be your slogan,
young man. Our skyscrapers do not
loop the loop and light. on your chest,
when old mother earth takes SHIN
my shake, as they do in California.
John Spencer says George Wash
ington deserves credit for journeying
through this vale of tears without
telling one of them things, that he
just has TO tell, sometimes. to sell
car. He should remember, however,
that George was never asked how
many miles he could get out of his
petrol wagon on a gallon of gas.
A certain young man breezed into
his home the other evening just In
time for his inquisitive sister to find
a thread of gold" shining prominent
ly on his "manly" bosom. eye Gods!"
said he, 81 wish to the Lord, the girls
for the sake of peace and harmony,
would wear hair nets during the
moulting season; now I'll never get
through hearing about this"
49,
What follows, is honest as gospel
statistics, compiled by some one who
knows. and they show that AZ years
hence out of every 100 healthy young
men now 25 years old, SO will be
dead, one will be rich, four will be
wealthy, five will be working to sup
port themselves and 81 will be de-
pendents dependent either upon rel
atives, friends or charity. Forty
years 1t sounds unbelievable. Yet it
is proved by the records of the big
gest bank in Florida.
Reading some old poems written
by one of Ocala's most beloved poets,
now long since passed into the glory
land) we are fraught to believe that
the birth of a poem is a chrysalis of
winged thought set free from the
garden of the soul, embodying the
moonbeams and starbeams even unto
the breath of the. morning zephyrs.
His rhymes were as pure as dewdrops
on the lips of natures sweetest rose
buds, the nectar of planetary ele-
ments nurtured in the heart of soul
overwhelmed with pangs of manifold
sufferings and disease unconquerable.
All 0cala loved Leon Hanlon.
Marion county roads are some
cussable," says man who knows
what he is talking about. There is
no manner by which one can drive, to
save his new tires. OF course, there
are some flush-heads who have plenty
OF the mazuma and just naturally
love to buy new tires at frequent in
tervals. To such as that there's an
open road and broad is the way. Go
to it, young man.
Enrolment at the high school
shows how fast people are coming for
the winter season, and a walk about
the avenues any pleasant afternoon
reveals many new, faces, fair and
beautiful, and now and then a new
derby hat to add color to the scene.
Hustling, bustling Americans havt
gotten into the habit of thinking thai
any time is the best time to read 9
newspaper. so they read theirs on the
train and throw them away. For Z
fact, the best time to read a news
paper is in bed at night. And aftel
this the best time to read it is th1
second time. When you have skim
lmed your paper put it aside, and g
lover it again. What you have missed
the first time is exactly what vol
want to know about.
4 Blowing bubbles is not half a
hard as bursting them. >
i We wonder what has become of tn
Io:d-fashioned- biscuits, the kind tina
were as large as saucer and a
fluffy as white snow.
A slip Of the foot may often be re
covered, but that of the tongue per
maps never.
An experienced auto driver say
THAT In ease of an emergency. a fe]