The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-09-10
OBSERVATIONS
(Contributed)

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(Contributed)
This being the month of September
and dog days gone, all the little fidoes
in the city are looking worlds hap
pier.
Not every man believes in signs. |
However they can afford to have at |
least little respect for the ones at |
railroad crossings.
To the fathers and mothers of our
city we would say. know whom your
daughters are with and see that the
type is most creditable.
We observe that the ear puffs worn
by the girls do not shut out the honks
of the motor cars when they stop nc
their front walks.
Very nearly all our summer wan
derers are now at home, and in the
majority of cases they look mighty
nearly as well as before they went
away.
When you write to your friends,
be sure to invite them to the fair
this year It is to be the biggest
thing that has ever happened in these
parts.
This is the season to plant vege-
tables and flowers. Plant them in
your dooryard, and If you have no
'dooryard, get some boxes and have a
window garden. Either Of flowers or
vegetables, but have something.
Some people get mad as blazes
very easy, and now a divorce suit is
the result of pretty little woman
asking her old, growly husband, as
there anything that has not increased
IN value in the past FIVE years ?" and
he answered. Eyes, you,
Once a poet sang that There is no
fireside however well defended. but
has one vacant chair" Now with
father and mother gone to the poIit-
zeal meetings, sister taking q joy
ride and brother at the movies, all
the chairs are vacant.
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An eminent English visitor to the
United States says that American
women are q curious type, but he adj
mires them warmly. He also adds
that man never knows a woman un-
til he has made love to her. Wonder
If he had to come all the way TO AM
erica to find that out.
So
We have been informed, says the
Tarpon Leader. that there is reason
for everything. And we suppose the
reason that the children Of the pres
Ient generation are not as obedient
and respectful as were those of the
past is that owing to the increasing
use of oil, gas and electricity thefe
are not as many woodsheds and old
fashioned slippers as there used to
be.
A politician devoted to the preven-
ton of cruelty to ANIMALS. places a
dog above man in many things. He
says so often one calls a man dog
when he wants to reprimand him, and
yet dog doesn't lie, doesn't swear,
doesn't drink, doesn't cheat, doesn't
swindle, doesn't fiirt and doesn't pre-
tend to be your friend when he isn't,
and above all he does not borrow.
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In some portable house catalogues
are shown portable churches. We
take it, they don't dispense that sta
iitionary form of religion liked by some
folks we know, who leave theirs un-
der the pew cushions every Sunday
might, expecting to find it there each
succeeding week, utterly untarnished
by contact with the outside world of
business and pleasure.
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| The size of man is not the size
of his body, neither is it the size of
his mentality. He may have a big
body, and be little man. He may
have great mind and small nature.
| The size of man is the size of his
soul. 1t is the dimensions of his
moral nature. it is the development
lof his spirit that stands paramount
lin this life.
/ We asked gentleman to tell US
his secret of fishing. He looked at
Ius a couple of minutes and said:
When you have learned to cast rs
feet and hit inside barrel hoop three
times out of FIVE. you are about quail
lfied to give your family a run fol-
their money when you 60 fishing with
them. A quick retrieve viii often
give you fish right of the bat, and
always remember its motion that GET
the fish and crazy zig-zag actions. ,
And we remembered.
As the vacation season comes tc
an end and business looms up afresh
las the all important thing in life
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