The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1910 Page: 2 of 9
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The Home Circle
The Jolly Girl.
The joliy girl is born, not
made; no training or endeavor
can counterfeit her. There are
those, to be sure, who affect
jollity, but it is only ekindeep,
says a writer in Harper's Bazaar.
The jolly girl is jolly under ad-
verse circumstances—in bad
weather; when she hasn't a cent
to her name; when she has the
toothache; when she hos lost her
situation; when bhe breaks her
needle; when her back hair
tumbles down in public; when
she is shopping; when her mas-
culine neighbor at the theater
goes out and when lie comes in;
when her bills are due. She
never seems to indulge in that
feminine luxury, "the blues"
and it is a mistake to suppose
that she is noisy; there is jollity
of the lady-like, aristocratic sort,
as well as of the fish-wife order.
The girl who makes up her
mind that jollity is the proper
cue, and that she will be lively or
die usually overdoes the business
She thinks that it chiefly con-
sists in laughing and in chatter-
ing nonsense, that it is a manner
of speech merely, rather than a
quality of the mind which dis-
poses one to make the best of
everything, to see the rainbow
on the cloud and the silver lining
behind it, to make the wrinkle in
the rose leaf a cause of mirth.
Some believe that jollity is an
affair of embonpoint: but who
has not heen disappointed in
finding the stout woman me-
lancholy and the thin one vivac-
ious, the bilious person ful! >^f
good-humor and the peib n
whose digestion never gave her a
moment's uneasiness quite the
reverse? The jolly girl can not
suppress herself, and assume
sadness or pensiveness: lan-
guishing airs do not sit well upon
her, but show at a glance that
they are borrowed plumes. One
is never dull with her. She has
that infinite variety which all the
world covets and loves. It may
be a desirable thing that those
who have not this natural grace
should cultivate and encourage
it in themselves and others, since
it brightens arid strengthens life,
makes rough places smoother and
pleasant places pleasanter.
Possibly it is no special virtue in
the jolly girl any more than blue
eyes in the blonde maiden or red
hair in the Titianesque. Jollity
flows from her presence just as
the nightingale's fluting bubbles
from his throat and enchants the
world; just as the poet pours
forth his song "in profuse strains
of unpremeditated art," just as
the tree blossoms, the grasses
spout, the stars shine, without
effort, without design, with
sincerity and constancy and
spontaneity. Let her be ship-
wrecked, or an invalid stranded
on a bed of pain yet she does not
lose or abate thut peculiar trait
which makes sunshide for those
about her and sweeps the cob-
webs out of their sky.
Return of the Prodigal
Son in 1910.
No, it isn't that the world has
grown hard hearted; it isn't that
we aren't just as glad today to
see the prodigal come back and
just as lovingly anxious to wel-
come him home as ever was any-
body in the 15th chaper of Luke.
It is the manner in which the
prodigal son of 1910 frequently
returns that throws a wet blanket
over the festivities of the wel-
come. When he comes down the
road with his hat hanging on his
ear and his hands in his pockets;
when he kicks the faithful old
house-dog as he lunges in at
the gate; when he calls his father
"Gov'nor" and the hired man
"Cull," when he wants to know,
"what's for dinner?" before he
has been in the house fifteen
minutes; when he gives his elder
brother two fingers to shake, and
advises him to comb the hayseed
out of his hair; when he throws
himself into the easiest chair in
the house perches his feet on the
window sill and announces that
he'll "take a tub before dinner;"
when he comes back with a
generally forgiving air of good
fellowship about him, and tiies
To Lonesome Women!
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Are yoa going to the meeting?
"Yes, 1*1 Ibe ready when you come.'
Women living on farms and in rural districts haven't
time to seek and enjoy social pleasures. Distances arc too
great—the work is too urgent. Women grow lonesome and
listless when robbed of these pleasures.
The Rural Telephone
solves the problem. It enables women to talk with neigh-
bors and friends and keep alive to the news of the day.
Information as to how you can have a telephone in your
home at a small cost will be furnished by our nearest Man-
ager, or address
The Southwestern Telegraph & Teleohone Go.
DALLAS, TEXAS
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to make all the rest of the family
feel very easy and reassured—
then it is my son that your father
longs to run and meet you while
you are a great way off and fall
upon your neck with a plow line
and welt you into a state of be-
coming humility and penitence
by the time you are able to take
off your hat to the bound boy,
and crawl up to the front steps to
ask your brother to shake handb
with you. Good people are just
as glad today as ever they were,
to see a prodigai come home, but
it does rattle them a little to see
him come home in a hack
and ask them to pay the driver
and send for his baggage.
Thanksgiving Plums.
Make others happy and be
happy yourself.
Be thankful—your blessings
have been many.
Be considerate of others as
well as yourself.
Hide your gifts and display
your smiles.
If you have but little, partake
of it gratefully.
Let the joy in your heart
bubble up like a spring.
If you are short of water, don't
guzzle beer.
As you feast on the fat of the
land remember the giver.
Manifest your sympathy by
acts as well as words.
As you tiokle your palate do
not do injusticto your stomach.
As you have been prospered,
share with the unfortunate.
Through the fast passing day
speak kind words while you may.
Let no act of kindness be ever
withdrawn for the dear ones
about us may soon be gone.
Be good and do good wherever
you roam, and especially display
these traits at your home.
The Importance of Hu-
mane Education.
There is misconception in the
minds of many persons as to the
value or necessity of humane
teaching. "The schools are
giving over to fads, and the
children's time and the tax
payers' money are wasted," says
the impatient parent. "I teach
my children to be kind and con
siderate to all animals. What
nonsense to teach it in the
schools!"
Now, while it is undoubtedly
true that in some families child
ren are taught to consider the
rights of helpless creatures, these
homes are in the minority. There
are many others where there is
no such teaching by precept and
where the example is direct-
ly in opposition to humane ideas
Three thousand years ago
Spartan fathers exposed unwish-
ed-for babes upon the city walls
to die. The same type of man
exists today. Public opinion
may force him to care for his
children, but he does not hesitate
to kick the stray dog from his
door, or to throw the undesired
litter of kittens into a vacant lot
to die for starvation. Is it not
necessary that children reared in
such an environment as this
should receive some counter
education or suggestion?
Even in home9 where inten-
tions are of the best, great
ignorance often prevails as to the
proper treatment of domestic
animals. How many of U9 un-
derstand the needs of the house
dog and cat, of the horse, the
cow, the domestic fowl? And
what do we know of child
psychology? Does the young
mother, smiling at baby thump-
ing his Teddy bear, realize what
kind of brain cells he is building
at that moment? Does the
father understand the intensely
imitative faculty of young child-
History Repeats Itself.
Wherever the Independents have entered
the field the number of subscribers has
doubled.
AHA subscribers were connected with the
«Ot Pilot Point exchange on Nov. ist.
We appreciate your patronage. Yours for better
look for the telephone service and more of it.
shield v
The North Texas Telephone Co.
CHAS. PEARCE, LOJil Manager.
8. W. Porter, President, 8. D. Donoho, Vice Pree, 0. A. 8hoek, See. and Treas,
Directors: N, B. Bilge. II. W. Ilean, Jnmos Biggs, T. K- Rodg
DISTANCE
ren, and how all his words and
acts are stored up for future re-
production? In the formative
period, when it is possible to in-
fluence a child in almost any
direction, he is left, more often
than not, to chance; and quite
frequently to the worst possible
example.
In addition, a child receives all
sorts of outside suggestions,
Home of them very brutalizing in
effect. All children love to read
stories of animal life. Left to
themselves, this desire is gratifi-
ed by the comic supplement or
hunting tales which foster a
desire to kill and destroy. It is
easy to provide a child with good
literature in this line, and one
advantage of publio school teach-
ing is that the teacher does thus
intelligently direct the inquiring
mind. It is a mistake to suppose
that all books written to inculcate
friendly feeling towa-id animals
are written by "Nature Fakers."
There is a large field of perfectly
sane literature upon the subject.
—Our Dumb Animals.
Go Right At It.
Friends Neighbors in Pilot Point
Will Show You How.
Get at the root of the trouble.
Rubbing an aching back may relieve
it.
But it won't cure it.
You must reach the root of it—the
kidneys.
Doan'e Kidney Pills go right at it;
Reach the cause; relieve the pain.
They cure, too, so Pilot Point peo-
ple say.
W. M. Reynolds, farmer, of Pilot
Point, Texas, says: "I was so greatly
benefited by Doan's Kidney Pills that
I give this public testimonial willing-
ly. I do not hesitate one moment in
saying that they are the best kidney
remedy I ever tried. I had an acute
attack of lame back, accompanied by
an almost constant ache across my
kidneys, There was also a difficulty
with the kidney secretions and I was
week and run down. When I learned
of Doan's Kidney Pills, I procured a
box from S. F. Gainer's Drug Store
and began using theai. The results
were both surprising and gratifying
and it was not long before my kidney
trouble had become a thing of the
past."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50c.
Foster-Milburn Co., ButTalo, New
York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name—Doan's—and
take no other.
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Tlie Red Chirt.
The ovtgiu of (lit- "ml shirt"-worn
us a lilou.se li.v Kugti.sh women in tlie
sixties, when tinriiiaidi wttw n po,iu,ai
idol throughout Great Britain Is suMi-
ciently curious. W'lien the celebrated
lililiuster was wnri'tiivc in tli.- South
American republics lie was atixlous to
obtain a distinctive and, altove sill,
e onoinienl uniform for his followers.
He learned that a local dry gouda
store had an immense "job lot" of
these garments, worn by the "sala-
deros," or cattle slaughterers, of the
great South American cities. The "bar
gain sale" appealed eloquently to the
leader's purse, and he led his men to
victory in the butchers' shirts, which
are now the accepted emblem of the
"risorgomiento" of United Italy.—Lon-
don Globe.
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Other features are, Fiction,
Woman's Wit and Wisdom,
Topics of the Day.
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THE POST-SIGNAL,
Pilot Point. Texas
A Lottery Romance.
A few years ago. as tl1 • .Sate for the
drawing of the annual * hri turns lot-
tery nt .Madrid was approaching, a poor
mechanic of Corunua was awakened
three consecutive ninlits by the num-
ber lir).Sti.i. apparently spokeu it) his
car. So impressed was lie by tlie repe-
tition of the incident that lie wrote
down the number and Jocularly sr.id
to his wife, "That number will win
the lirst prize in the great lottery."
•Then why don't you buy the ticket?"
Dis wife answered jokingly as she
looked at tlie figures. "Why, see. if
you add tln*ui together they just conie
to my axe. I shall lie thirty-one on
Christmas day." The ticket, after much
trouble, was found tit had been reject-
ed a few minutes earlier by a wealthy
citizen of Coruutuu and bought, and
before many days had passed the me-
chanic aud his wife were made Jubi-
lant by the news that the ticket hud
won the first prize of £200,000.—Lon-
don Globe.
The peculiar properties of Chamber-
lain's Cough Remedy have been
thoroughly tested during epidemics of
influenza, and when it was taken in
time we have not heard of a single
case of pneumonia. Sold by all drug-
gists.
You must read this if you want
the benefit.
J. W. Greer, Greenwood, La.,
suffered with a severe case of lumbago.
'•The pains were so intense I was
forced to hypodermic injections for
relief. These attacks started with a
pain in the pmall of my back which
gradually became fairly paralyzing.
My attention was attracted to Foley's
Kidney Remedy and I am glad to say
after using this wonderful medicine I
am no longer bothered in any way by
my old enemy—lumbago." Sold by J.
R. Peel.
A Ttnperanca Tragedy.
"I1..11 1 i. ..utt an,, lliul'c. .lohti. You've
not too much already,"
"No. 1 haven't."
"Yes. you have, and you'll be drunk
again."
"Aw. what do you want to worry
about that for? It's me that has the
headache next morning."
"1 know. John, but It's me that has
the heartache all the time."—New York
Times.
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