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Show SOME OF LIFE'S PHILOSOPHY. Good Hard Common Sense from the "Self-Made Merchant." Thp lady on the dollar Is tho only wqmnn that hasn't any sentiment In her mako up. To marry for money or to marry without monoy Is n crime. Thcro Is no real objection to marrying a woman wo-man with a fortune, but there Is to marrying a fortune with a woman. While you aro at It, there's nothing llko picking out a good-looking wife, becauso oven tho handsomest woman looks homely sometimes, and so you can get n llttlo variety; but a homely ono can only look worso than usual. Beauty Is only skin deep, but that's deep enough to satisfy any reasonable reason-able man. Most men got cross-eyed when they como homo to slzo themselves up, nnd seo nn nngel Instead of what they're trying to look nt. Thoro's nothing tells tho truth to a woman llko n mirror, or that lies harder to a man. Hot nlr enn tako up a balloon a long ways, but It can't keep It thcro. And when n fellow's turning flip-flops flip-flops up among tho clouds ho's naturally nat-urally going to havo the farmers gaping at him. But In tho end there nlways comes n tlmo when tho para-chuto para-chuto falls to work. I don't know anything that's quite so dead ns a man's who's fallen threo or four thousand thou-sand feet off tho edgo of a cloud. Tho path Isn't tho shortest way to tho top, but It's usually tho safest wny. , Easy-como money nover draws Interest; In-terest; easy-borrowed dollars pay usury. Whenever any ono offers to let you In on the ground floor It's pretty safo to take tho elevator to tho roof garden. There's no alarm clock for tho sleepy man llko an early rising manager; man-ager; nnd there's nothing breeds work In an offlco llko a busy boss. Somo fellows can only see those above them and others can only seo thoso under them, but a good man Is cross-eyed and can see both ends at once. Bo slow to hlro and quick to flro. A discharged clerk In tho offlco Is llko a splinter In the thumb a center cen-ter of soreness. From "Letters from a Self-Mado Merchant to His Son." |