[or-roots] "Some Queer Things"

[LinLouVan at aol.com]

I have been reading some old newspapers and thing some of you might enjoy 
this.
And here we are 110 years later and most have not changed. - Linda

EXCERPTED FROM THE "JUNCTION CITY TIMES", S.L. Morehead, Publisher
June 23, 1894, Volume III, No. 38
 
            SOME QUEER THINGS
            That the man who chews tobacco wants a wife with a sweet mouth.
            That long haired men, don’t admire short haired women, and vice 
versa.
            That there is a vast difference ‘twixt tweedle dee and tweedle 
dum.
            That the wilful, unruly pupil makes a teacher of exceptional 
governing capabilities.
            That the biggest gossip in the neighborhood thinks everybody is 
talking about her.
            That the man who writes agricultural items for the newspaper 
lives in a city flat and never saw a farm.
            That the woman who was a noted flirt in her youthful days doesn’t 
want her daughter to look at a man.
            That the wearing of tight boots should cause men to become 
prematurely bald, there’s Bill Nye for instance.
            That the man who thinks he knows more than any of his neighbors 
is apt to be the biggest fool in the neighborhood.
            Is it not queer: That the man who does not want women to vote 
does not object to his wife cutting her own stove wood.
            That there should still be any one foolish enough to believe that 
promises made by lovers or politicians will be kept.
            That the woman who is clamoring for woman’s rights owns a husband 
who sews on his own buttons and dare not say his soul is his own.
            That the lengthy article on the care of babies, how that they 
should be fed only once in four hours, etc., was written by a woman who never had 
a baby of her own.
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