Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-07-14
and ask that you excuse me. Thanks


Display of bad temper is inexcus-
able and a pleasure Brighter to all
within its circle, dervastator of all
that makes social intercourse worth
while
A hair-trigger temper is a product
of lax discipline in early life, and ex-
aggerated ego, and should be treated
vigorously while the patient is young
and tender.
In the case of a small boy, or girl,
the early application of mothers slip
per or fathers razor-strap to the seat
of trouble, repeated rehgiously pro re
nata, will prove efficacious to a high
degree, permanently curing, or greatly
ameliorating all cases of treatment if
treatment is vigorously applied.
Psychology has taught US that in
cases suffering from early neglect, dis
erection may be very greatly and sud-
denly developed-even in hoary age
by prompt and vigorous application of
brickbat to the side of the head of
the patient on the early appearance
of symptoms of temporary insanity"
Girls cover up their ears because it
is the fashion and modest men cover
up their eyes because girls leave so
much uncovered. Oh, well, things are
not hopeless merely because they go
''from bad to worse" so long as they
haven't gone from worse. to worst.
There is still some hope.
When a woman is asked if she is
acquainted with another woman and
replies, "Yes, l know her." with the
accent on the know" you'll drop the
subject like hot fish, if you're wise.
Finding Eve in tears one day Adam
inquired, sympathetically, whats the
trouble, dear?" 'eOh, / do have the
worst luck" she mourned, 'While
was IN bathing mean old caterpillar
came along and ruined my new fall
wardrobe, and l haven't thing to
wear"
Speaking of fig leaves, guess you
heard about that Knoxville girl :?
While touring California, she asked
her escort: what kind of tree is
that ?" Fig tree" he told her. my
goodness" she replied, 81 thought
they We're larger than that.
The war left the world so fiat that
Toby Richmond may be excused for
denying that it is round.
**#*&***
"Old-fogy-ism" has died a natural
death-natural in the sense of being
in harmony with the age; in harmony
with higher criticism" electricity,
jazz-jazz everything, few and short
skirts getting shorter, women cover
ing up their ears and leaving so much
uncovered that modest men blush and
cover their eyes, peeping through the
fingers, 'shimmying," ct ais. Women
preaching where Paul said they must
keep their mouths shut. What did
Paul, the old fossil, know about it,
anyway?
The out o. date scriptural injunction,
Children, obey your parents" taught
US by our parents is wholly out of
harmony with the times, and the mod
ern version, Parents obey your chill
dren, sounds more progressive and
in accord with the modern ideas of
After a hard struggle in forcing
stubborn and rebellious parents into
submission, it appears the task has at
last been fairly well accomplished;
and the admirable revolutionary spirit
of youth, with its dash and irresistible
force, has overcome such perverse and
ancient maxims as "Spare the rod and
spoil the child" in which our mast
fed ancestors had abiding faith. Pa
rents of the present swift age dare
not even smack a child on the spot
nature provided if slow of speed and
unable to make quick get away.