Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1906 — LITTLE VISITS WITH "UNCLE BY? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LITTLE VISITS WITH "UNCLE BY?

Just for Fun. The Bummer folk* will booh be home From hazy, country skies And in their oM, accustomed haunts Will swap their fishing Ilea Beauty, when unadorned, is adorned the most, but few women believe it A rainy Sunday is always a great calamity for a woman who has a new dress and wants to wear it. The man who masters his own appetite is a strong willed man and capable of great success. There’s heaps o’ joy In this life o’ ours! Ferglt th’ thorns, iAn’ jist pluck th’ fiow’rs! Voltaire says a serpent which has been spat upon will quickly devour himself. Hard drinkers should paste this in their hats. There is only one thing that makes a man madder than being misquoted by the newspapers, and that is not to be quoted at all. e Nervous women frequently have the deplorable habit of suffering imaginary calamities, their mental distress often being parallel to that they would endure did the real calamities overtake them. Thousands of women in this great land of ours, good women, too, who are kind-hearted and' loving, spend more time coddling a fern or a pug dog than they do encouraging and helping some poor, struggling human being to get a start in the world. The WISE MERCHANT. The wisest merchant in the Fall Is he that advertises. And clears his store of remnant goods And Illy sorted sizes. He gives the printer man his ad. Aud thus turns stock to money, While other merchants doze around And never gather honey. It’s just as easy as can be To win the business prizes— Just imitate the fellow who Cuts loose and advertises! I had always supposed that “Old Grimes . . . that good old man,” was the only literary character who wore “a long black coat all buttoned down before,” but I find that Albert G. Green is not the only writer to immortalize this fashion. Halliwell in his “Nursery Rhymes of England” refers to the same coat all buttoned down before except that the color was brown and the man who wore it was “Old Abrahadi Brown” and in the Matherne churchyard there stands a stone inscribed: “John Lee is dead, that good old man— We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an old drab coat All buttoned down before;” —from which I infer that, aside from the color, many quaint old fellows must have assisted in making popular the long coat “all buttoned down before.”