Friday, December 25, 1970 THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C. Page Thirteen MIRROR MIRTH An oculist is a man with an eye for business. The best way to keep down bills is to use a paperweight. Love is a disease like the measles, because it is worse when it comes late in life. When nations aren’t trying to make up with each other, they are trying to make off with each other...A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. A gossip gets her best news from someone who promised to keep it a secret...Half the world doesn’t know how many things the other half is paying installments on. An efficiency expert is smart enough to tell you how to run your business, and too smart to start one of his own...A tactful husband is one who remembers his wife’s birthday, but forgets which one it is. Duty is a task we look forward to with distaste, perform with reluctance, and brag about ever after...As soon as a crop starts coming up in the fields, it starts going down in the market. Women get criticized for wearing furs in summer, although they are merely following the fashion of the original owners...The only two who can live cheaply as one are a flea and a dog. It’s odd how chairs never move in the daytime, but at • Ceramic Tile • Quarry Porches • Marble Fireplaces • Rubber & Asphalt Tile G. H. BRYAN Til* Contractor ME 7^18 night tiptoe up and kick you in the sins...Most bachelors have lots of chances to get married, but they are not taking any chances. When a woman puts candles on her birthday cake, she should be burning most of them at both ends...Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them. Remorse is a sign that it wasn’t quite as pleasant as you expected it to be...When the wool is pulled over a man’s eyes, he is generally fleeced afterwards. Some people commit murder, others get their satisfaction from reading obituary notices...The narrower the mind, the broader the statement...In this mechanized age, even public officials are machine made. A diamond is a gem whose bright sparkle renders a woman stone-blind to the defects of the man offering it June is the month of brides. The other eleven are devoted to divorces. A lecture is a talk by which the notes of the professor become the notes of the students, without passing through the minds of either...A bachelor is the souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute. It’s called cold cash because we can’t keep it long enough to warm it up...Alligator is the skin that’s fashionable for ladies to wear, especially lady alligators...A gadabout is usually a gab about. Kisses bring out the beast in some men, usually the jackass...Faith is the basis of three great enterprises-love, democracy and hash Time often changes a woman’s curves to extended contours. Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach...So far no one has invented an intelligence test IN THE ROUND . . . One of many photographs in the 1970 Yearbook of Agriculture, “Contours of Change,’’ shows rows of laying cages in-the-round. Manufactured by a New Mexico com pany, each round house holds 34,000 layers. to equal matrimony...Most men would rather be the second husband of a widow than the first. Every dog has his day, but the nights are reserved for the cats...Children have grown so expensive that only the poor can afford them...When a woman puts candles on her birthday cake, she should be burning most of them at both ends. In a ladies sewing circle, more husbands are darned than socks. Every dog has his day, but the nights are reserved for the cats. An organ recital is a patient’s complaint to his doctor. After a few montte of work, Eskimos call it a day. A man never realizes the blessing of being born poor until he gets over it. A road map tells you everything except how to fold it up again. He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. The favorite sport of fleas is to follow the hounds. The man who is always in a stew generally goes to pot. A modern mother is one who can hold safety pins and a TO EVERYONE For your convenience we will remain open Christmas and New Yearns Day. WILLIAMS RESTAURANT 0 Come, All Ye Faithful As you observe this Christmas in the tradition of your faith, may joy abide with you, Howk Rodio & TV cigarette in her mouth at the same time. A monologue is a conversation between a man and his wife. If your left hand itches, it’s a sign you’re going to get something. If your head itches, it’s a sign you’ve already got something. A jury is the only thing that doesn’t work right when it’s fixed. It’s just as hard to live with a person you love as it is to love the person you live with. Man is the only animal that laughs, also the only animal that has a Congress. If you watch some women shop, you’d think they were taking inventory of the store. Nowadays the only males who boss the household are less than three years old. Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. If you want to kill an idea, just get a committee to work on it. Nothing annoys a woman like having her friends drop in unexpectedly to find the house looking as it usually does. Half the lies told on the witness stand are not true. Free advice is the kind that costs nothing unless you act upon it. A monologue is a conversation between a husband his wife. Will power is the ability to eat one salted peanut. Unmentionables are all those garments of feminine attire which are now spoken of loudly and hy real names. Spanking is something which is inflict^ on one end to impress the other. A philosopher is a fellow who always knows what to do until it happens to him. Originality is doing what somebody else did years ago, after the public has forgotten about it. Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open. A meddler is someone who suffers from an interferiority complex. Scientists are having a hard time proving that man descended from an inferior animal. It’s love that makes the world go round, but it’s marriage that k^eps most of the inhabitants hustling. At present prices, there are grounds for complaint in every coffee pot. It’s what the guests say after they leave that really counts. A cynic is somebody who suffers from skeptic poisoning. Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. Today’s automobile driver proves that much of the horse sense in the good old days was possessed by the horse. A military expert is a man who tells you today what is going to happen tomorrow, and tells you tomorrow why it didn’t happen today. Next to love, bridge is the greatest indoor sport in America. . A boaster is a person who, everytime he opens his mouth, puts his feats in. An antique is something so old that it’s worth more than it really is. We swear off on New Year’s day, and after that we swear, off and on. What some women want for their birthday is not to be reminded of it. NAT DIXON NURSERY • GIENBURNIE - Growers of Fine Trees, Shrubs and Plants TIME TO SAY: MERRY TO AIL OUR FRIENDS Hardison Printing Co.

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