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Show I - Farmer's, Educational nl and Co-Operative Union of America Matters f Especial Moment to I I the Progressive Agriculturist Haste is a poor excuse. A man with nothing to do has a hard job It is said that corn juice will make a man's voice husky. Poverty is no disgrace, but neither does it win any medals for a man. Better a friend that improves on acquaintance than one that doesn't. Good advice if you have anything to say to a mule, say it to his face. .Many of our best home ties look very much like mother's apron strings. To be a philosopher all you have to do is to preach what you don't practice. prac-tice. Civilization taught woman to wear tailor-made gowns and eat pie with a fork. A fat woman would rather have you ask her to tell her age than her weight. A perscfn who is sharp enough to see when he has been fooled will not stay fooled very long. To the man whose store bill has been met by eggs and cream settling day has no terrors. ' Charity covers a multitude of sins, but it is generally our charity and other people's sins. We all admire a man who does good things, unless we happen to be one of the good things. Take the boy in partnership in your farm operations. It will be a great incentive to keep him on the farm. The man who is continually talking about himself may not know it. but he is actually knocking his best friend. Happiness has been described in so many different ways that a number of people have doubts as to its existence. How many telephones were there in the neighborhood fifteen years ago? How many are there today? Would you go bick? When a man begins pricing automobiles automo-biles it's a sure sign that friend wife will soon widen her circle of old and. very dear friends. Worry about what has happened is useless; about what is going to happen, hap-pen, a poor substitute for thought and action. So why worry at all? |