The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-06-12
PARAGRAPHS
"A LITTLE NONSENSE NOW
AND THEN Is RELISHED BY
THE BEST OF MEN

Some medicine fakir is advertising
"a Remedy for Mouth Diseases
Don't be fooled. No medicine cures
it. The only remedy is to pack !.
with concrete or to sew it up with
piano wire.
An anonymous writer says at the
end OF his letter more anon" but we
feel sure that he is mistaken. Anony-
nous letters are not printed. So, If
there is nothing at the start, there
can't be more anon.
TIT
Editorial restraint is a wonderful
institution. Think of the many OPP
portunities for your favorite paper to
tell "all IL knows" If 1t ever did, you
would be willing to pay a dollar a
copy-unless the joke was on you.
TIT
There is no profteering, says Fred
Marvin of the Bankers Magazine.
Possibly not, but after reading some
of the latest quotations on print
paper we have come to the conclusion
that there is a lot of highway robbery.
TIT
Mary Van Kleek asks: as house
keeping due to become obsolete?'
Well, Mary, if housekeeping goes out
- 4so~o~0,1 nnI onftotnd M 10 will
cease t. appear in the office of the
marriage license clerk looking like a
frightened Ounce.
TT
Be reasonable about indulgence in
luxury. The need for thrift is peren-
NAL. You will never be worth a con-
tinental unless you acquire a home,
a wife and anywhere from five to four
teen children. Then you will have
something to live for.
TIT
The 1918 nickel with a buffalo on
it looks Just a good as the 1912
nickel with a "V" on it. 1t takes
twenty of them to make a dollar, but
its buying power today is only three
and a half cents, compared with the
same kind of a nickel in 1912.
TT
Spokane, Washington explains at
length how it COMES that the censu
'eport gives it less population than it
did ten years ago, and cites the fact
that in reality it has grown materially.
Summed up, the report shows that
the present enumerators were not
near as adroit liars as those of a de-
cade ago.
The world will be more intelligent
when 1T learns that the world would
be weather. with a 1900, 900. 900
bushel wheat crop than with a 1,000.-
900, 900 bushel wheat crop, although
the chances are the latter would bring
more money. Unless Adam Smith was
an idjit, abundance signifies wealth;
scarcity signifies poverty.
TIT
The modern ambition is not to be-
come a great worker, but a great
preacher, agitator. or politician.
The most respectable of all callings is
farming, or supplying the first neces-
stiles of life. Yet our funniest jokes
are directed at the farmers, who are
said to go to the communities where
smart people live, and blow out the
gas.
The good old days of the rheumatic
are gone. He no longer totes a raw
later in his pocket. He goes to his
doctor, his doctor sends him to the
tonsil expert, the tonsil expert sends
him to the X-ray expert. the X-ray
expert sends him to the dentist, and
the dentist returns him to the doctor
and the doctor sends him to the drug
store. It's some life, boys.
TIT
We have to work ON Saturday, and
have to work on Monday, and every
body knows, doggone it, one can't
catch fish on Sunday. So here we are
tied up in town, and in spite of all
our wishing, we dassent don our rag
ged pants and leave to go out fish
ing. We cannot hunt, we cannot fish,
and when we can't go hunting how
will we get the rabbit skins to clothe
our baby bunting? We'd love to skip
across the hills and down the valleys
! wander, and we just know the fish
would bite if we could get out yonder.