To a prospective candidate we
spoke last week n this subject
and his answer was a wise one,
In substance it was this. "If my
friends want me they will so indi
cate. I am in the Hands of my
friends."
Some of our local scribes are
going back to the old time way of
reporting hops, etc., all social entertainments
in dress ornaments
and decorations. Well, they can
be excused by reason of the fact
that history repeats itself that
qcusts return once in seven years ,
PASTING AND FEASTING.
Famous Men -Who Have Gono to Ono Ez--
tremo or the Other.
Napoleon, tho first and most famous
of (hat name, during his. po,or
'student days, wrote in a letter to his
momma that he indulged in but one
meal a day, and consequently, enjoyed
good health. But Napoleon,
the first and moat .famous, is believed
by ft few choice critics to have been
:quite a constitutional prevaricator,
and it 13 possible that while cajoling
his prudent and provident mamma
with tho impression that he was living
very economically, and, accord-ins
to hid assumption, healthfully,
ho may in reality have been wasting
hia limited means in wildtei) dissipation,
says, a writer in What to Eat.
Another assertion in tho same connection
later in life is 1cm liable to
an equivocalmterprctation. He said
something to the ellect that no man
was ever hurt by eating too little,
but many a man had been harmed
by eating too much; anppinion which
most of average constitution and experience
of life may feel willing to
indorse.
Dr., Samuel Johnson was a gros9
glutton. Though quite intellectual,
he waa without eleganca or .refinement
of nature. While admitting ha?
mental power and fine talents, it i9
impossible not to condemn his boor-
'khriess'and gluttony.
