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Show Some folks are poor but honest, while others an? honest but poor; but which condition is the caus of the other is never stated in recounting the virtues vir-tues of our neighbors. It is worth at least $1,000 a year to be born with a modest appetite or to have learned to control one's desire?. The happiest among us are those whose wants are few. ' j Most of the things we struggle for, after to : have got them, we find are not the things which 'v! bring us happiness. Most of us would rather do the thing3 we can't .1 than do what we can do well. It seems to be pretty well established that a girl t j who marries a man to reform him generally meets P with disappointment. f s ? During the canning season, what more natural ; j to expect than that there should be family jars, or f that the cook should quit or be canned j r Anything we make ourselves we think more of than the product of anyone else, which may av I count for the exaggerated opinion self-made men j have of their own importance. ? President Faunce of Brown university says that many college graduates cannot write a decent business busi-ness letter, but he should remember that the boy 3 did not go to college to learn to be stenographers. The old saying that a fool and his money are soon parted is only another evidence that it doesn't take brains to make money; if it did, the fool wouldn't have any from which to be parted. The north pole is still open for settlement, if Santa Claus doesn't enter a protest against the invasion in-vasion of his domains. Sometimes it is as hard to hide good deeds as it is to hide bad ones, but the publicity in the one case is more pleasant than in the other. The beauty that is bought in the drusr stowi and is applied with a brush or a puff is not even , skin deep. - . t The smart set is made up of those who sutsti- Ji . -tute what money will buy for what money will not . Jf buy. y Somehow or other, we never do think much If those who succeed in making us acknowledge th.7 ' ? were right and we wrong in any matter. The average man looks about him and sees many V mediocre men, and some average men, but only a ' few really superior men. Most of us had to learn a great deal before we attained to the satisfaction of having learned enough. Great is wisdom after we have attained it all. And now it is said that Mars is absolutely dry, which condition is hailed by the prohibitionists Is an evidence of the giant strides their movement taking. I We would hardly expect such a hot controversy I over such a cold subject as the north pole. 1 |