Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1922-01-20
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UNCLE DlJDLEY'S Column

"A !. IUUu&UIlee0 ulS40l 9G80uS On a.
street corner as an attractive lady is
passing. 75s.
Without any desire to injure, and
with no apparent purpose in mind, he
makes q flip OF suggestive remark. 6
9 Others hear it, and repeat it, and
in time It grows to wild proportions
and races from lip to lip. with light
ming speed. IS ..=.5 s5
It graduates from the class of mere
gossip and assumes the dignity Of a
scandal.
It is too spicy a morsel to keep, and
soon everybody is engaged in ''spill-
It is thus that many an unblemished
reputation is unjustly dragged into
the mire through the medium of a
tongue that has no curb. IT,
Step on the brake.
! Officers Of the National Retail Shoe
Association have sprung a bomb upon
the country. They assert that the
feet Of our charming women. are grad
Enally growing in size and that as a
eonsequente& much larger shoes are in
II 81 !2: i, 81 =. +: =.
h Scanaalous! We :t11ever. dreamed
Ethat an American man could be so un-
kEalantl2. 4. s;;--<...;: ~; 81 -. r.: :
E Even if it were true, they should
have said that Charger shoes are more
in demand, owing to the superlative
wisdom of our enlightened and eman-
cipated womanhood in declining to
longer torture themselves by cramping
their feet in shoes size too small for
them" 49,.
/ As long as dollar bill is circulating
around here it is worth dollar to the
community.
When sent away it begins to enrich
other people in other places. It seldom
over returns.
Keep the dollars at home as long as
possible. Others are not tearing their
hair in an effort to hand them to us.
q & q
Hope; they say, never dies. It just
peters out.
Many a soft berth proves in the end
to be the hard side Of a board. o.
80
Every man is sharp in one way. He
knows how the other fellow ought to
do it. '-
3 .
If we had to pay a high price for
the free advice we get, most of us
would suddenly discover an element Of
value in it.
Although submarines were not scrap
ped, there is some comfort in the
knowledge that they will be confined to
4h1 ~ I'LL
close.
Hot times are ahead in Washington.
Mr.. Pepper is now member of the
honorable senate.
IF the world would stop moving for
while some of us might be cable to
forge ahead.
There is subdued whisper Of the
short skirt going out of style. There
is not enough left to attract attention.
The fool is about the only person on
earth who doesn't try to keep others
from thinking he is one.
T. Woman is born to sacrifice. She
brings man into the world only to give
him away to some other woman.
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= They say red tape in Washington is
disappearing. Using another color,
perhaps.
= *s* .s:<5z.:5e
The courts should hustle up and dis
pose Of that Stillman divorce case. It
is keeping too many other spasms in
the background. ::
Even cowardice, some claim, has it's
advantages in way. 1t is an insur-
ance against the marring of facial ap-
pearances.
'Pay as you go" would be COM
mendable, but its universal adoption
would present a cruel side. It would
railroad lot of collectors out Of their
jobs.
. = .
According to a contemporary, cost
~ weddings are going out of style.
With no other kind left, what are we
going to dot
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Whatever we may think, Postmaster
General Hays at least knows when the
quitting is good.