The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-04-13

words of one syllable and then at the end-just
as sort Of dash of cold water in the face of
the "caller" he adds this paragraph:
Running newspaper reminds us
! of woman who got on a street car with
a number of baskets and half dozen
kids trailing her. "Picnic?" spoke up
fat fraud enquiringly. "Im going out
to the lake, alright, but it's no picnic!"
snorted the buxum mother"
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SAFETY SLOGANS
1. Horse sense as we'll as horsepower
should enter into the operation of motor vehicles
2. Live to ride another day by obeying all
warning signs.
8. Believe in highway warning signs-they
mean what they say.
A. Drive with care-you may meet a fool
5. reckless driver is a menace.
6. Respect the pedestrians rights
Z. Our streets are wide and smooth Don't
burn them up.
8. Death is SO permanent. Better to slow
down at dangerous intersections
9. Keep your hands on the wheel. Hug
your girl some other time.
10. The three "H's"-"Hootch," "Hugging"
"Haste"-cause rs per cent of the motor acct
dents.-Norman County Herald
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You parents who are entrusted with the de-
velopment of young life should give pause to
the statement of Cardinal Hayes of New York
He says that poverty is not the cause of crime.
Neither is there any such thing as criminal
type. Crime is problem of youth-neglected
unframed youth. Two-thirds of the criminals
of today are less than Is years of age. Sixty
eight per cent of all criminals studied were found
ito have had little no contact with any reli-
gion, attending church irregularly or not at ALL
Fortyseven per cent of criminals examined came
from broken homes which one or both par
ents were absent.
eve always seem to think" as the Preferred
Blonde of recent fame would put it, that the Ga
zette editor would have gotten fatter on her
three weeks enforced vacation if she hadn't had
to live on her own cooking. Even the liberal
donations from many "good-cook' friends
couldn't quite offset experiments. Again
borrowing expression from a popular cele-
brity, in the words of one l. Berlin, we Forgot
to Remember" the things used to know about
the good old art Of cookery. The only thing we
did with SKILL expedition and efficiency was to
cut our left thumb regularly as carved the
crusty loaf or the overdone roast
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0OAhhINX
Don't let anyone try to make you believe
that Quarantine" and "rest cure" are one and
the same. They anti"
We've discovered why friends send roses
and sweet peas to those serving time behind
a State Health Sights to divert the sense of
smell from the lysol and other alleged disinfec-
tants.
Some folks go to Florida for three weeks
at the order of their physician. Some others go
into that quaint seclusion called quarantine, for
the same period-and also following rather i'm
perative suggestion from DOC"
We used to worry about paying our real
estate tax June first. After the past three
weeks we've found that the biggest problem is
and the grocer who supplied US with oranges
during that period.
We've discovered that it isn't what fam
lily does under quarantine conditions that counts
its what keen observers think that family is
doing The world doesn't progress much from
one quarantine to the next, suspect.
Days in quarantine may drag bit Ito the
patient at least) but the long, lonely, quiet ev-
enings with books are never half long enough.
We have come out from our three weeks retreat
a firm advocate of the spend-more- time-in-the-
home campaign.
In our neighborhood lives young woman of
whom we have always been fond. She quite
killed our affection the other day by calling
to us from discreet distance, isn't it nice that
you won't have to have woman IN to do your
house cleaning this year." We guarantee this
as wonderful way to make a friend into first
class enemy.