Out of the Ginger Jar
- When in doubt ask your wife.
- The preacher can tie a knot as well as a sailor.
- Man proposes, but it is very often papa who disposes.
- The coal dealer should be very careful to take the right weight.
- The salt may be coarse without being the least bit objectionable.
- Those who eat corn on the cob run a risk of having corn in the ear.
- Fussy folks strain at little things; and so, too, does the careful dairyman.
- The man who cheapens himself is pretty sure to be marked down by his neighbors.
- The new broom sweeps clean only when there is a willing hand at the other end of it.
- It is not worth while now to advise folks to keep cool; the weather man will see to that.
- When you see a hen eating tacks you are rash to assume that she is going to lay a carpet.
- The elevator man is a genuine humanitarian. He spends his days in elevating men and women.
- It is a good thing to know when we are right, and it is important, also, to know when we are left.
- He makes his living by his pen.
- What are the things he writes?
- He never wrote a single line–
- He raises Chester Whites.
- A manufacturer advertises a device to save steps, but unfortunately he does not tell us where to put them when we have saved them.
- “Are you willing to live with me in a cottage?” “Yes dear, provided it is a cute little cottage with a dozen rooms, three baths, steam heat, a butler, a cook, dining room and upstairs girl.” –Farm Journal
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]