The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-02-14

You never hear of anybody contest
ing the will Of school teacher or
college professor.
A thief slips up the back steps and
steals while the mistress Of the house
is sitting on the front steps talking.
Moral. turn the key in the back door.
Husbands, like milk and public ac-
countants, should be certified
You don't have to have exceptional
" good eyesight when looking for
trouble.
Do you really believe the speed
maniac is any happier than the fellow
who takes the road slowly?
Gardens are going to be just as i'm
portant now as during the war. Let
the "Song Of the Hoe" be the popular
accompaniment.
Imagination is a function of skep
ticism, and skepticism is a function Of
superior information. The more a
man knows the less he believes.
Sponges brought into Key West by
two boats were recently sold for
S2792. Gee, whiz; If Ocala could only
sell some of her sponges!
$3.50
Isn't it amazing how apparently
Intelligent people will cough and
sneeze directly in the fact of persons.
They should remember the experience
of last seasons epidemic of influenza,
and have care for the health of their
fellow men.
FIorida's mid-winter season is at
fer the shadow of the world war still
fingers, will prevail in all the state
resort cities until Ash Wednesday,
which falls on Feb. 18th. Lent still
holds its significance to the more
conservative in society.
If you have cold take your recre-
people An individual who will carry
a sneezing cold to a picture show or
into any crowd, unless compelled by
most urgent circumstances to do so,
is inordinately inconsiderate, if not
something that would require con-
siderably harsher name.
Some people are so lazy they would
not exert themselves to lift the latch
string to get into the pearly gates of
Heaven.
There are several families in this
city to whom we would suggest the
advantages of wireless telephones.
They would at least save lung power
foY the "mamas," who now have to
yell their heads off calling home the
children when they stray away to play
in a radius Of fifty or a hundred yards.
Shakspere says something about
worms, or it may be giants or beetles,
turning if you tread on them too Sc
vereIy. We find the safest plan is
never " IISdu OI d WI III.
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1t is a veritable fact, and haven't
you noticed it. that if man or wom-
an makes a practice of. and takes de-
light in believing and spreading evil
of people Indifferent to him or her,
he or she will end in believing evil of
folks very near and dear?
Young man, when you go a-court-
ing. watch the hands of mademoiselle
If she shuts them tight over thumbs
turne ddown over the knucle, take up
you hat and go. You're only making
a fool of yourself by staying. But il
hel hands lie open on her lap, and
you observe her trying to close them
and can't, stay as long as you please
She's open to conviction and not past
| reasoning with.
A friend is one to whom you do not
have to fling your notions in words.
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4 silly woman can manage a clever
man, but it needs a clever woman tt
manage a fool.
A snake is a snake until he is dead
but a liar is a liar till the judgment Of
| God takes hold of his heel.
A we'll educated sense of humor will
save a woman. when religion, training
and home influence fail. We all neeC
! salvation sometimes
There's no love so deep as hate.
kissing is a cumulative poison. Th'
more you get the more you want.
4 queer, serious old world is this
Men speak the truth as they under
stand it, and women as they thlnl
men would like to understand it. anC
they all act lies which would deceiv'
Solomon. And the result is a heart