The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-07-10
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loss of whether there is company"
present. The very atmosphere speaks
of peace and contentment, too.
49,
A lady told US few days since that
the reason women marry men for
money, is that they seldom find any
thing else about them worth having.
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We note by an exchange that they
have started a "Buy Nothing Club"
Next thing we'll hear will be the idea
of an Eat Nothing Club" Most folks
wear almost nothing so they can't
tackle that question any further.
Sweet are the uses of adversely.
Nevertheless we find it a mighty
poor substitute for sugar when it
comes to canning.
We overheard young lady at Sill
yer Springs Thursday evening tell
"feller" she was going to snake
him face the music" Maybe she
means the wedding march.
/ Experience Is the thlng we mink
we get from our past mistakes to pro-
duce our future successes, except that
it never happens that way.
Very few men when they come to
choose wife buy lily. Lilies of
the garden of idleness undoubtedly
possess charm and are sought by
men who are able to maintain them.
!, However the ability to take care of a
home is what most men of today are
Hooking for when they pay serious
| attention to the opposite sex.
Il We hear and are told lot of things
hut don't know much. But we do
. know that Pythagoras 500 years be-
, fore Christ said: Learning consists
I of things we memorize and are told
: by persons or books. knowledge con-
!. lsists of things we know, not the
: things we assure or believe. Wisdom
: lis the distilled essence of what we
4 have gained from experience; it is
D that wisdom which helps one to work,
] to love and to make life more worth
e while for all we meet"
a
4 Certain it is that clothes go a long
a lway towards making stunning
e woman, and certain it is that the lack
e Iof them make an attractive bathing
e lgirl
vi A gentleman was sitting under a
r ILalm tree at Silver Springs. He was
e surrounded by girls like race horse
s lamong butterflies. He was handling
0 snapshots, showing them around and
v telling of "good times" he and his
Ipal had recently enjoyed. Ladies'
r he said, speaking soft and very low
81 have laid aside great ambition
lof my soul, that ambition to shine In
V what the world calls the smart set
I've put away for a while at least my
lsuper clothes and Pm taking my turr
lof sweating with the working world
I. I'm learning to lift common mans
load, and to eat comman mans
# meal and to think a common mans
thoughts. One of the difficulties
h find among the men of the South, is
they are so doggoned proud they
have gotten above cornbread and cot
ton shirts Work which endure:
comes from the soul of the people
IS The mighty in their pride walk along
l. Ito destruction. It's the humble whC
walk hand in hand with providence II
a. Immortality. Their work survives
He who lives under it and is loyal Il
t, the American flag is level to truth
lie land justice everywhere. And he whC
is disloyal to it is a traitor to th'
human race"
Innocence is bliss" etc., is a goot
old adage. Maybe it is, but our eye
nearly popped out the other day whel
we observed entwined about the crown
r. of one of our city's most patriotic ans
prominent women's new summer ha
j. a wreath of cornf1ower blossoms. Ha4
she known these blossoms were tn
national flower of Germany she woul,
have dropped dead in her tracks, an
when she reads this she may do
anyway. The cornflower is of tina
!. exquisite color that accentuates t
such charming degree eyes 0
sparkling blue when shaded by
soft. fluffy erimmed chapeau that W
too regret that it has fallen into tn
enemy's hands. American howe
makers long since ceased to manu-
fracture them.
The chicken menace in Ocala doe
not seem to improve. We have bee
requested by many to "do for good
inoc- SaRa xxyri+o a do11hIo 4h,1pdaxhoa
piece" against chickens running =
large. We are told that in some SEE
tons of the city the enmity anon
neighbors, because of chickens,
lpathetic, and that scores of them al
mot on speaking terms. Even tn
ministers are learning to "throw
J. lstones.