The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-13
PARAGRAPHS
"A LITTLE NONSENSE NOW
AND THEN is RELISHED BY
THE BEST OF MEN,

august.
They'd better far experiment
With laughter, mirth and merri-
ment,
For if they don't, they'll surely go to
rust.
Some men always tell the truth
but make t as hard to recognize as a
man in a barber chair.
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A P~oindexter campaign button is
at hand, with a pretty motto. 1t says:
mo Red, without the White and Blue"
University of California boys put
drugs into grape juice to get a kick
out of it. They got the kick; also
doctors bills and funeral expenses.
The people who have to spend the
summer in Canada to keep cool and
all winter in Florida to keep warm
are not very important to the affairs
of this world.
One of our soldier boys in a Red
Cross hospital with a leg shot of,
said he would rather see the Statue
of Liberty in New York harbor thai
ST. Peter at the gate.
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MI. ,-,tl, ealfI iunrxy doynp
should be pitied rather than shamed
as it is his misfortune, moi his fault
and besides, if you punch any such
bean nothing but skinned knuckles re-
suits.
TT
When the ways and means CON-
mittee talks about seeking a hair-lift-
ing tax on the automobiles, don't you
observe how the pedestrians sit on the
curbstone and weep until the cutters
are sloppy?
Seven dollars worth of WOOL goes
in a hundred dollar suit of clothes.
That is stated as a fact in the United
States senate. Ninety-three dollars
is the costs and profits of weaving the
cloth, dyeing and making the suit.
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Mexican women, says a refugee
from there, are better than Mexican
men. That's nothing. That's true
in any country. It's true right here.
And women don't have to be so all
fired good, either, to be better than
men.
The proposed tax on bank checks
is a sign that there still exists among
men that form of cerebral obliquity
the possession of which by a legisla-
tor enables him to keep the world
wondering whether he is a born idiot
or a self-developed pale blue fool.
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Curious Subscriber, speaking about
Holland. asks what neutral means.
Well, if two fellows scrap over a IS
bill, one claiming it is good and the
other claiming it is counterfeit, and
a third chap puts it in his pocket and
walks off, leaving them to fight it
out, that last guy is neutral.
TT
Easter is en- route, which means
that it is getting here with both feet.
and bringing bills for new gowns and
hats along with it. 1t is the accepted
time for new raiment and glad rags
yet if the average man should don a
pair of lemon-colored gloves that day
he would feel like a street accident
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1.-THE war has accomplished one
thing for America" says a Baltimore
divine. ut has greatly stimulated
the industry of piety of the nation"
We hope so, but the evidence is not
apparent. At least the tailors tell us
hat they continue to patch the seats
of 5000 pairs of trousers for every
pair they patch at the knees.
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There is n economic truth that
you can never batter into the con-
ciousness of a bonehead and that is
possessing the ability to pay money
for anything doesn't justify one in
living an idle life. The ablebodied
individual who permits a day to slide
without doing something useful ought
not to be permitted to eat, even if he
has a million.
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If calling the former German en-
peror an assassin is the best a Bel
gian can do in the way of denuncia-
ton, then the job of sulphurating the
atmosphere properly in Wilhelm's
vicinity will have to be left to the
English or Americans, who are tenn
peramental enough to do the job up
!