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Show ODDITIES The switchtender is paid for flagging flag-ging at his work. The mattress maker can't afford to lie down on his job. Baseball players are not partial to rough diamonds. The auctioneer is a man who likes to have you talk back. Soothing syrup manufacturers are not averse to taking hush money. It doesn't require a botanist to pick out a society wallflower. Although the miller bolts his meals he doesn't get dyspepsia. The man who weds an old flame often finds that she has a red-hot temper. The volume of a man's langh may not contain a single page of happiness. happi-ness. No girl ever gets so deeply in love that she forgets to discover whether her nose is shiny. Flirtation is a kind of circulating library in which we seldom ask for the same volume twice. Some people think three or four times before speaking once, and then never say anything worth listening to. It's a wise child that knows enough to keep its face straight when ltp father Is learning to drive an automobile. auto-mobile. Houston Post. |