Evening star., 1924-12-21

care. II I tracked in something it
disappeared finally, when the man
got around to IT. II a picture was a
little awry, it didn't disturb me- The
man might have changed the hang.
ings at the windows, and I would
When my wife came home 1 was,
humiliated for a month hearing her
tell the neighbors how ! had reveIed
in dirt" There Is a moral here for
women, If they will look for it.
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Somewhere I read recently that
Grover Cleveland had a reputation for
talking Of ropes In presence of those
who knew they ought to be hanged.
The expression attracted my fancy
There should be more talking OF
ropes in the presence of those who
know they ought to be hanged.
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am never able to remember fig
ures. l do not believe them, anyway :,
II is said fgures cannot lie. They
are the greatest liars in the world. =
Our greatest lies are spread by fig
ures. In the hands of liars, who can
doubt that figures will lie?
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know OF no two persons in history
more cordially dislike than Oscar
Wilde and Sarah Bernhardt. Both
were clever, brilliant, and thoroughly
depraved. Both delighted in saying
vicious things. The ordinary man :
and woman has some sense of pro-
prlety. These two had not. 1 believe
only one man has ever been willing
to record all his meanness, and this
only after his death. But Wilde and !
Bernhard delighted in showing how
vicious they were while living.
Bernhardt once wrote: "On the
American continent vulgarity is the
price OF fame. You must be infamous
there before they will call you fa-
nous. It didn't take me long to
make my name stand out. can sur
vive anything except being too often
mistaken for a lady. Women should
be allowed 10 change their husbands
as often as they please"
Wilde was equally bold IN hating
respectability. He wrote: The love
Of a married woman is wonderful, but
only unmarried men know what it
is." Here are creepy things only
creepy human beings would be will
ing to sign their names 70. Respect
BILE people very properly keep man3
OF their thoughts to themselves.
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have a pleasant home, and God
knows I worked long enough TO get
il. / like being at home 50 well h
don't care whether I go any other
place or not.
have observed during a long lifS
that two birthdays are much talked =
Of by men, the fortieth and seven
/ tieth-
In many households this situation
will be found: Husbands are believed
| by wives and daughters to be stingyr
and SO they encourage tradesmen ard
servants 10 get all they can out OF
| father. This often resuits-in injus--
| tice TO husbands, who usually have a
| hard battle for funds with which Le
pay household and personal expenses.
| Wives and daughters do not under
stand the fight men are compelled 70
make for the family money, or the
/ necessity for economy.
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There Is a type OF woman who IS
| good enough, but who is a fool, and
| will not permit any one to teach her
/ know virtuous wives and mothers
| who are great tasks to their own
husbands and children, they are So
| determined TO be foolish. a foolish
| man may be finally kicked into some
! sort of sense, but a foolish woman
! always becomes a pest. Being good
| is not enough; you must have a little
| sense, in order to get along. And the,
| way to acquire sense is to observe
| the days run OF events and properly
| estimate their value.
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