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Show They claim this is a time of change. Most of us have seen little of it in our pockets since Christmas. Christ-mas. They used to say fine feathers do not make fine buds. If these fine feathers are ' wing feathers that enable people to fly away from home, they seem to like them all right. They say it's bad form to criticize criti-cize the way your partner plays his or her hand at cards. When the husband calls his wife down, that is not criticism, but merely giving her the benefit of his superior su-perior skill. Homing pigeons show remarkable instinct in getting home. Parents say they wish they had more horning horn-ing young people. There is an old superstition that a husband can be made better tempered by feeding him with soup fed them consisted principally of rain. If people are asked to show . what they have as a souvenir of Christmas, many can show dented automobile fenders. It is frequently remarked of people., who deliver excessively long speeches, that they are "wound up." An alarm should also al-so be wound up, to go off when they stop, so ths audience would wake up. They used to tell about damning things with faint praise. The modern world, which is pretty easy going, is more inclined to praise everything with faint dreams. In spite of the manifest dangers of their existence, Pa and Ma Turkey keep having the usual families of children. OH YEAH COLUMN The early mailing of Christmas paskages was called a good thing. Many will say it is not necessary to mail the bills so early. The Axis nations are said to bs wabbling badly. Apparently the driver stepped on the accelerator when he needed the brake. The phliosophers tell us to climb the heights of achievement. People are willing to do so in Utah if they can don It in a good car with someone filling the tank with gas. They say we' are going to have a new world after the war. It will be run by the same old people peo-ple . who smashed , it . up. .twice be-, fore. The people are urged to do things. Doing somebody seems The American people are told to go in for a great expanison program. pro-gram. Here in Smithfield they expanded ex-panded their waist lines at Christmas Christ-mas tnd Thanksgiving. more widely popular. They say iron is needed in the blood. Also more iron in the hands in the form of well exercised garden tools would help many familiies next summer. They used to speak of parsimonious parsi-monious people as "penny pinching." pinch-ing." The modern world doesn't seem to think anything less than a dollar is worth the effort tc pinch. It is said to be bad luck for an athlete to see a cross eyed woman in the grand stand. Also if he meets a sheep's eyed girl after the game, he may be tempted to break his training rules. The philosophers ask what gifts the New Year has brought to us. Many will reply that it brought a bad taste in the mouth and a thick feeling head. |