Something Worth Bragging About

1915

One day I decided to visit one of my old friends and to take my little niece, five years old, with me. We were talking about dishes and my friend got one of her highly-prized hand-painted plates and was telling me how much she valued it, when the little girl broke in: "Oh, that's nuffin'. Why, we live in a hand-painted house." — Chicago Tribune.


Thinkers

"Men of thought" are the thinkers, the creators of ideas, the men who furnish the inspirations and theories, while "men of action" are the workers, who carry out the plans furnished by the others. Sometimes the two are combined in one, as in the case of Napoleon, Caesar, Da Vinci, who were at one and the same time great in both theory and practice.


Smallest Bird

The smallest bird is a Central American hummingbird, about the size of a blue bottle fly.


Daily Thought

Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us. — Emerson.


Another Try

Recruiting Officer — What's the good of coming here and saying you're only seventeen years old! Go and walk around that yard and come back and see if you're not nineteen. — Punch.