Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1917 — WARTIME PROVERBS [ARTICLE]

WARTIME PROVERBS

' Waste not, want not. > Cherish thy parings. H. C. of L. is the whine of life. A word to the wives is: “Efficient." If the shoe fits, keep on wearing it Better no garbage can than a fall one. A fool and his garden are soon parted. “ ~ It’s a wise father that owns his own crop. Beauty is less than skin deep—in a potato. A full dinner pail, but leave room for the cover. . / “He becometh poor that dealeth with a-Blaeklutnd? r - Bread, scattered from the door, is the chaff of life. _ *. - . Bread cast upon the oven will return as cottage pudding. ■ --- — — / What comes up must stay up—if it’s fenced from the chicks. Eat to live; the grocer needs an eight-hour day for a change. —

Weigh the groceries coming in and they’ll find the way harder out, • When prosperity flies in at the window, garbage slips out at the door. A tempest in a teapot costs even less, but it doesn’t go so far as a stew la a kettle. • ' . Cherish thy father and thy mother; likewise thy knife —and use it prudently. What matters though the luscious tomato be neither fish nor flesh nor fowl?