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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1920
The war may be over, but wars are
still going on.
Hoarding necessities of life is trea
son to humanity.
When there is a coal strike, wood
strikes a responsive cord.
The world is composed of profiteers
and those who wish they were.
Not even water is safe these days.
Consider the shipwrecks on the great
lakes.
When deportation is undertaken
the average “red" is thankful for the
red tape.
Beylin has a woman magistrate.
No wonder the ex-kaiser is still saw
ing wood.
The old-fashioned hold-up of trains
is being added to the other woes of
civilization.
The wide disparity in the prices of
cider is perhaps dependent upon its
potentialities.
N'ew clothes are to be encouraged,
since they swell the church attendance
immeasurably.
The decision of the American league
to be 100 per cent American has the
general approval.
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Love may continue to laxigh at lock
smiths, but nowadays it is disposed to
weep at landlords.
A hopeless optimist is- the guy who
thinks the American people will lend
money to Germany.
About 4,327 people have already
written “the truth about Russia” and
nobody knows it yet.
Paying $200,000,000 more a year for
coal is one thing, and getting the coal
at any price is another.
Tf bolshevism means a desire for
the best that money can buy, the
country is lousy with it.
Reing prince of Wales would be in
teresting for a time, but it must be
come tiresome as a regular thing.
A machine to register the laying of
eggs is still a long way from the real
necessity—a machine to lay ’em.
Poland gets Galicia for 25 years,
at the end of which period it should
be pretty solid with the Galicians.
Our idea of a true optimist is the
man who explains how much better
brown sugar is, after all, than white.
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That California woman who offered
$1 for a husband may have had in
mind syne specimens she had seen.
With the cost of clothing steadily
mounting that back-to-Africa move
ment is likely to have a different color
tone.
Clothiers say spring suits will cost
even more, but what interests most
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of us is the winter suit we haven’t
got yet.
Wood alcohol is putting up a vigor
ous demand for supervision as one of
the most dangerous and accessible of
drugs. _ ''
London servant girl is running for
parliament. If she’s elected it’s an
even bet she’ll quit before her term
of office Is out.
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Mine. Patti left a fortune of $580,
000 for her life’s work, which is al
most as much as some movie actors
get in six months.
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There is said to be an abnormal de
mand for hair tonics. Perhaps some
men are pleasing their stomachs by
slighting their heads.
There is almost as much doubt about
the possibility of protecting the world
from future strikes as about that of
preventing future wars.
However much an alien enemy who
lands in the United States may dis
approve of this government, he never
seems to grow homesick.
Abundant sugar is still a theory, not
a condition.
Who wastes fuel in this crisis is a
social slacker.
Irish conditions are reported dis
quieting. Getting back to normal.
Even a fuel shortage does not keep
the “political pot” from “boiling.”
A TNT famine would be a welcome
incident of a somewhat stressful time.
It’s hard for a poor thief to decide
whether to steal sugar, whisky or coal.
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Getting all possible heat units out of
every shovelful of coal is now a civic
duty.
One half of the world doesn’t know
how in thunder the other half manages
to live.
The way one is compelled to conserve
on sugar these days, you’d think it was
soft coal.
The rattle of the coal going into the
bin is to maoy the sweetest music of
the wiuter.
Milliners say hats will be smaller
this year. But the bills will remain
the same.
Exercise keeps one warm and exer
cise in mining coal keeps several per
sons warm.
It is noticed that when sedition
spreads it hardly ever spreads bread
with butter.
While there is so much profiteering
the nation should profit by its painful
experiences.
When they make hair tonic unfit for
drink there no doubt will be a big drop
in the sales.
In these bizarre times -the golden
rule appears to have become some
what tarnished.
With eggs steadily going up it will
not be long before every apartment
has its own hen.
Further heating restrictions may
bring about a closed season for ex
posed wishbones.
Financial experts says Turkey is
rich. Is this to tempt us with fat pack
ings as mandatory?
The fellow who stole a $1,000 piano
from a freight car may be back in a
day or two to steal the car.
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In this time of fuel shortage it may
help a little to bear in mind that the
ex-kaiser is still sawing wood.
Religion too often consists in drop
; plug a greenback in the collection plate
! Sunday, but it gets you nowhere.
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If these premature presidential
booms are left out during the winter
some of them may be frostbitten.
The new uses that are being found
for goat skins are going to make life
more precarious for the consumer.
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