DON'TS - Some Good Advice for Life

1911

DON'TS.

Don't strain at a gnat and swallow a gold brick.

Don't live among the relics of the past in this bright age when all improves so fast. This is a day of advanced thought, a day when wonders great are wrought. So let us with the might and main of heart, of hand, of busy brain, a greater victory still attain and win eternity's acclaim.

Don't be a pickle. A sweet smile doesn't cost you a red cent. Then smile — yes, smile — to all and spread content.

Don't let your temper get the best of you, for then you surely show the worst of you. That temper is to steel your will, your heart, your brain, your hand, that you may reach success, sublime and grand. So make it help you in your valiant fight until you're crowned a victor on yon golden height.

Don't ship dressed or live fowls by freight. If they don't spoil or die they may get there too late.

Don't be in a hurry to dun a customer. Deal on a cash basis if possible. When some people say, "Just charge that to me," you never a cent of their spondulicks see.

Don't make roost slats round and narrow. Corns.

Don't have nests too small. Broken eggs.

--Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania, July 7, 1911, page 3.