The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-09-09


Money is most valuable when you
haven't any.
Even though two can live as cheap
~ as one, they don't.
Marriage is a lottery where one side
draws all Of the prizes.
You have found by this time that
easy money isn't easy TO get.
September again-and the best we
can make out of it is Septemb r
Enemies are valuable at times, but
friends are valuable all the time.
"The saving grace of common sense
has a lot to do with saving money.
Yes, it takes a wise mar to hood
wink you into believing he is a d. +.
The writer who escapes criticism
is not a writer. He is just a scribbler
You can teach a parrot to talk but
not to think. All gossips are the
same.
If the match we're made in heaven
would the husband still go out at
night?
A girls frame Of mind Is not half
as important as the frame that holds
her mirror.
Marriage Is always a serious affair
and a good many moderns are making
it a series affair.
A good way to annihilate an enemy
army would be to send 1t up in one Of
our own airships.
Man and wife being one, it is not to
be wondered at that SO many married
men love themselves.
1t may be true that love comes I'M
hidden. but it gene :ally takes a fat
bank account to hold 1t.
And still when a frenzied financier
gets caught it is but natural that he
should become frenzied.
The kisses that women give each
other are not the kind that the NOV
ing picture censor cuts out.
No, we have decided not to mention
the latest sensational murder. 1t Is
difficult to tell which Is the latest.
The best way to prevent money
from wearing holes in your pockets
Is to have no money and no pockets.
If you think your dearest enemy
is lacking in good qualities just ask
him to tell yon about them. He can.
Tired business men In some Of our
cities are taking to ballet dancing In
order to acquire that willowy appear
ance. =.
The collapse of that dlrigible In En-
gland created quite a sensation. We
forgot to forget and sensated for an
entire day.
BE of good cheer, brother. Knicker-
bockers for women will not remain
knickerbockers. Next season they
will be trunks.
Some men are said meyer to know
when they are whipped. But perhaps
they are too good at running to ever
get into a scrap.
We note, in passing, that there is
less kissing among women than there
was a few years ago. Perhaps the
men have no cause for complaint.
A man will talk for hours about the
short comings of his neighbors, and
then gets mad as a hornet If the nei-
ghbor let's out a single, chirp about
him.
The fight for supremacy between
pen and the sword is at an end. The
sword is no longer used In battle and
the pen has been supplanted by the
typewriter.
IT'S said that eagles can live with
out food for twenty days. But even
that would not reconcile us to an ok
change. We don't are TO sport an
eagles beas.
No matter what may be accomplish
ed by that Washington conference,
American housewife will never be dis
armed. The broom stick is a fixture
ia every home.
A public health official states that
college graduates are rapidly drifting
toward a state Of race suicide. That,
however, Is probably only one Of the
elevating effects Of higher education,
and can hardly be charged to wood
alcohol.