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Show Farmers' Educational ril and Co-Operative Union of America Matters jf Especial Moment to I I the Progressive Agriculturist Opportunity is a welcome knocker Lots of family trees bear mighty poor fruit. Time waits for no man. but a musl cian beats it Romance in novels would be a -scan. ' dal in real life. The menu of love is made up ol im probable possibilities. Unfortunately naughtiness does not always come to naught. Expect little, but do your everlasting everlast-ing best to land a whole lot. Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. A man who doesn t like live stock has no business trying to farm The best way to make time fly is to borrow money for 90 days. The best co-operators on the farm are the cow, the hog and the hen. A suffragette is a woman who does not want to be considered womanly. Sometimes a very little lie will keep a very big man awake all night. Keep your eyes open as wide as your mouth and you will know more. To scoff at anyone is the mark of a fool, and likely to make a bitter foe The average married man would make an excellent foreman in an excuse ex-cuse factory. The man who ts continually waiting wait-ing for something to turn up is usually usu-ally turned down. Running down the neighbors is like hammering our own thumb. It hurts nobody but ourselves. Abusing a man tells one little about the man abused, but it reveals a lot concerning the abuser. They call a man a good loser if he keeps still about it in public and goes off by" himself to swear. Some people seem to be glad that they have no Mends, and glad that they are not making any. No one particularly likes a chronic kicker. Nearly every neighborhood has one or more of them. It is the fashion to give all the boys a farm. Why not give the girls each a deed to an acre and a house? In one respect a man should emulate emu-late the bugs. He should live as largely as possible off the garden. It is true, even as has been said, that there is a time for all things but not all at once; they should be done one at a time. |