FROM PHILOSOPHER'S NOTEBOOK.
Salad days are thoso in which tb.6 long green is plenty. Falling in love at first sight is all right if you are insured against the consuquences of the second. As a rule, the young person who as conspicuously lavish with his "dough" will be found on investigation to be ' half-baked. Women are never selfish in the matter of secrets. There- are very few who will not share their last one with you if you will give them a chance. The chief trouble with the average alarm-clock seems to be that after the first fright the alarm wears oft. If there ia any thing the world hates more than a quitter it is the man who refuses to quit when he is through. In these days of frequent divorce and legalised polygamy, a child utterly without ancestors may still h.ive forefathers — nay, even five." If it be true that ihe devil sends the cooks, we should rejoice that he is at last engaged in so useful an "occupation. . / It is curious how eas'iiy a vroman can be deceived by a foreign suitor making his appeal through a coronet, when she would instantly spot a fellow American who was talking through his hat. — Lippincott's.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1909, Page 10
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206FROM PHILOSOPHER'S NOTEBOOK. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1909, Page 10
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