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Some Modern Sayings

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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" Honesty is the best policy," unless you eau get about $üO,000, and effect a settletnent at fifty per cent. Honor thy father and thy mother, particularly about circus time, when you don't know where to raise flfty cents. Never run in debt when you can avoid it. It is much better to go stubbing around in a broad cloth coat than to be in debt for a suit of Scotch mixed. Let your motto be " Liberty or death," and if it oonies to the pinch take the most of it in liberty. Eemember the poor. If you know of a family vrho are out of provisions and fuel, keep them in your thougbts until you meet Smith or Brown, and then teil them that they'd better make a donation. If they hold off, teil them that " He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord." It ia very easy to Temember the poor. I can remember cases twenty years ago. Eespect oíd age. If you have a uiaiden aunt forty years old, and she ia passing herself off for a girl of twenty-three, there is no cali for you to espose her. The more you respect her age and keep still about it, the more she will respect you. Never marry for wealth, but remember that it is just aa easy to love a girl who has a brick house with a niansard roof and a silver-plated door-bell, aa one who haan't anything but an auburn head and an amiable disposition. Love thy neighbor aa thyself. Borrow his plow, hoe, or horses whenever you can, but if he wants to borrow yours, teil him you' re very sorry, but you were just going to use them yourself. Be guarded iu your conversation. There are times when you may freely express your opinión of a political candi date, but you had better wait until his friends are over in the next county visiting. Eemomber that appearances are often deceiving. Mnny a palé, thin young lady will eat more corned beef than a carpenter. Because you find her playing the piano in the parlor, it is no aign that her mother is not at the corner grocery running in debt for a peck of potatoes. Eestrain your temper, particularly if a polioeman is in sight. Fits of anger hasten death. If a man should cali you a horse-thief and you should get highly indignant, it would cut your life short by several days ; and if it was in Texas, and there was a vigilance coinmittee handy, it might cut it short altogether. Eise with the lark. That is, during cold weather, as soon as the lark rises, waken your wife and teil her that it is time to build a fire. If she makes any objectións you can refer her to a dozen works on the benefits of early rising. Any man who cares a cent for his wife's health will take pride in hearing lier around the house at daylight of a winter's morning, 'getting up a red hot stove and warming his 8ocks and boots.

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Old News
Michigan Argus