Fun, Facts and Filosophy

Kind Hearted

gpr dog just bit a piece out of my leg, Madam." lqd you mentioned it. Now I won't have to feed him."

Screens And Plans

Tire lumberman was very wise

He didn't want to "swat the flies," [\r dead flies always have a look, $Ih"tt one has smashed them with a bookT\et isn't pleasant to be seen;

.And so he bought himself a screen dnfl hinged it up before the door.

"Ah, Hu !" he said, "they'll comle no more, N{ longer will I have fe 5rlvxfI n$ the wise gazabe-'e1'fixf ?"

Bqt lust to have t'he screen could not Uqttfn the place of daily swat, Unlhil, indeed, 'twas given o'er, Tq dq the thing he'd bought it for.

Ald eyerr day with jovial grin,

This thgt we say may make you smile;

But thinb it over for a while

And see i{ you have then the face

To say ittg different in your case.

You bought some plan books as an aid

To help you sell. Were you afraid

To "swat the sale" and make it stick?

Or did the labor make you sick?

How is YQUR screen? Did you try hard

Or do you let the other yard

Cop sales that wo'uld have been yours-ifTwixt screens and plan books, what's the dif ?

The Kind He Needed

"I went a black suit" said the solemtr faced customer, "something of a strong heavy material that will keep its shape and last for a number of years."

"You don't want a suit, sir," the modern clerk assured him, "what you have in mind is a cofifin."

Youth

Youth is not a timte of life; it's a state of mird.

It is not a matter of ripe cheeks and supple knees; it's a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of emotion.

It is a freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means temperamental predominance of courage bver timidity, the appetite for adverture, over the life of ease. This often exists in one of fifty, as well as one of twenty.

Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear, and dispair in these are the long hard, years that bow the heart and turn the cringing spirit back to dust.

You are as young as your faith-as old as your doubt.

As young as your self-confidence; as old as your dispair.

A Hint To Time Wasters

As a gentle hint to those who drop in during busy hours of the day and take up the time of both them,selves and their hosts, one of our friends has stuck up a black lettered sign near his desk, so that it is in easy sight ofl his visitors, which reads:

WHAT! YOU HERE AGAIN? ANOTHER HOUR GONE TO HELL!

MusIcIANs oF THE FoREsT f

"Yon breezy pine, whose foliage shades the-springs, In many a vocal whisper, sweetly bings." (Theocritus)

Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home I laugh at the pov/er of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines Where the evening star so holy shines f scoff at the pride and lore of man, At his Sophist school, at his learned plan, For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the woods his God may meet.

THE VIRTUE OF' DISPLAY

"There should be flowers, 'green g'rass, w,hite stones, gravel driveways, square piles, signs, straight fences ard clean bins in a lumber yard. The office should be the best looking ofifice in the town. None of these necessary essentials require very much mroney. Most of them simply require am,bition and a little elbow grease.

"Until the lumber dealer becomes a merchandiser vdho understands the value of DISPLAY-until he realizes that he ,could get the business in his tou/n without competition by exercising a little ingenuity in making his yard a place of beauty instead, of a scrap heap-until he realizes !ha!-lte must do with his stock what other successful merchandisers lhave done with theirs-lumber yards will not come into their own."

By R. E. Saberson, ol Thompson Yards.

So Are Many Of Us

Beggar-"Help a poor cripPle?"

Paisirby-"Ilow are you criPPled ?"

Beggar-" Financial1y."

What this country needs -is more work on the young biz-and more $rins on the old phiz.

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