The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-06-04
OBSERVATIONS
(Contributed)

(Contributed)
A gentleman farmer lives in the /
country where he has room to keep |
chickens. The city farmer" lives on
a quarter of an acre lot and lets his
neighbors raise his chickens.
Young man. rolling stone gathers
no moss, therefore only let one girl
wear that diamond ring and let her
be your promised wife.
Florida is becoming known on the
| map as the state of kings. We have
cabbage kings, sweet potato kings,
Irish potato kings, turpentine kings,
phosphate kings and sometimes you,
can find a peanut king.
| Speaking of gossip, a speaker like
some writer's should, like locomotive
engineer be skilled in applying the
airbrakes once in so often if not more
so. At all times it is as important to
know what not to say, as how not to
say it. Indecent remarks propagate
trouble, equal to that which results
|
a man and woman has spoken IN
haste to repent at leisure. In Pro
verbs we read: "He that shuttest his
lips is esteemed as a man of under
standing" One rarely has occasion to
regret saying too little.
In one of the city's front yards
there grows little plant known by
the name of "Mimosa." 1t is so sensi
tive that on being shaken or touched
it Immediately closes up the dainty
fronds of it's little leaves and they
remain tightly closed until their dis
turber has passed. A lesson you ask.
Well, we should say so.
Speaking of women, the poor, dear
!. women, they have for many years
been forced to exist in the ''back
yard" of oblivion. as far as the pOliti-
} cal world is concerned. They have
} been allowed (by generous MANI 10
look after the garbage, to see that the
: washing was done, and the clothes
hung out on the line, to give orders
to the butcher, the milkman and the
: ice man, and to circumvent the raids
: Of the neighbors' chickens. But that
is all changed now. For the first time
in American history women will this
year have a real voice in the affairs
of their "front yard" domain. They
! are even to help plan the great high
) ways of government, and to watch
' the movements of events and take a
5 vital part in their development. This
| fall will see approximately 100000
5 women voters. and what the dear
f things will leave undone won't be
much.
: Good old summer time in Florida!
A season that gives to every one that
privilege to so live as to have clean
hands, clear conscience and the
right to look every man or woman
| in the eyes. A privilege to roam il
Y the green country amid violet shad.
}. owed wales and to dream in the coo
dampness of shaded dells, where
n woods and tree tops outlined against
a the wide sky reflect the peace that
passeth all understanding. Out il
: Gods sunshine where the fute-likt
f note of the mockingbirds call and cal
you and where lazy cows wade knee
: deep in reed-bordered silvery brooks
anc the hum of bees and sometimes I
a pearly mist of rain, the ripple of winC
= through the pine boughs and the seen
of forest flowers, soothe broken hope!
f ana dreams and the lonely years tina
f stretch ahead. That's Florida.
|, The health of every family lies il
a the hands of the wife. A woman be
d fore she marries, to say the least
, should know what constitutes well
balanced meal. She should know tn,
: Importance of fresh air and know
t enough to see that it is supplied at al
: times.
= We had a letter a few days since
: that said: "The world wants you
e ideas, your thoughts, your conclusion
: and will pay you handsomely TO
them-if they are ne wand original.
d We Immediately dug down in thu
e southwest corner of our brain an'
: turned over the top soil.
+ Arrangements made beforehand ar
e sometimes carried out behindhand.
c A city ordinance forbids the roam
It ing at large of poultry, but many o
:. the owners of the latter cheerful!
i iguore it and turn out their fowls par
V or all of each day, to forage on thei