Dreadfully Mortified

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The Primitive Man
"Jones is so dreadfully primitive."
"What's his latest?"
"Why, we were at the opera house the other night and a stage hand removed a table and Jones yelled "Supe! Supe!' We were dreadfully mortified."
"I was at a dinner the other night and Jones sat next to me. When he saw the row of spoons and forks and knives beside his plate he beckoned to the waiter. 'Say, boy,' he hoarsely muttered, 'I guess you spilled the spoon-holder!'"
"Well, it's lucky he's rich."
"Ain't it?"
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions, and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and willing service. -- Longfellow.
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How can a man come to know himself? Not by thinking, but by doing. -- Goethe.
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It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. -- Sir James Mackintosh.

--The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, 1911.