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Show BRAIN LEAKS. It is easier to seek than to find until you find it. . And. after all, there Is really no excitement ex-citement In telling a secret to. a girl who can keep it. The Great Evener of Joys and Sorrows Sor-rows certainly will have to be good to a city scrubwoman In after-life. "What this world needs," says a ' Wisconsin editor, "is peace and mu- f tual confidence." Ye6, and more hired girls. Too many men make the mistake of thinking that idleness is rest. Rest is doing about what you ought to do , and stopping when you get good and ready. It makes a fellow feel sheepish when he shaves, combs his hair, puts on hl collar, his necktie and his hat and ' then discovers that he has omitted his trousers. Another Indiana poet i in tho ' limelight for rhyming "poems" with "homes This is excusable, however, on the ground that the poet knows very little about home. About the time that a man grows so hypochendrlcal as to quit trying, he either, gets a new tidy for his easy chair, or, if he Is single,' he meets another an-other girl, and Is saved from the dregs of despair and ennui. This old life isn't bo bad after all. . It Is really wonderful what a lot of energy a man will work off tramping 'through the snow for miles, getting al8 feet wet and going hungry, nnd all to shoot (at) one poor, lonely, homesick cottontail that has dared to venture out of his bailiwick for a dinner of twigs. When a man drops off to sleep and silken rest has tied up all his care, It ig alarming to have a bull-pup sneak stealthily upstairs find the door to bis boudior open and land catapultlc-like in the middle of his chest I certainly must give that dog of mine something for this, ere I grow pale, haggard and apprehensive. Who knows what is good for somnambulism in dogs? |