| NINETEEN IMPOLITE THINGS 1. Loud and boisterous laughter. 2. Reading when others are talking. 3. Reading aloud in company without being asked. 4. Talking when others are reading. 5. Spitting about the house, smoking or chewing. 6. Cutting fingernails in company. 7. Leaving church before worship is closed. 8. Whispering or laughing in the house of God. 9. Gazing rudely at strangers. 10. Leaving a stranger without a seat. 11. A want of respect and reverence for seniors. 12. Correcting older person than yourself, especially parents. 13. Receiving a present without an expression of gratitude. 14. Making yourself the hero of your own story. 15. Laughing at the mistakes of others. 16. Joking others in company. 17. Commence talking before another has finished speaking. 18. Commencing to eat as soon as you get to the table; and 19. Not listening to what any one is saying in company. |
| From the Daily Nevada State Journal, 1 October 1875, page 2:Copyright 1998-2002, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.), "Ancestry Daily News"http://www.ancestry.com/rd/dailynews.htm, June 24, 2002 |
| Don't bring out the photograph album to show your beau the first time he calls to see you. Authorities say it is stupid as well as verdant. You might scare him off at the first start by letting him see your grandmother's picture, with its hint of what you will look like when you get old. |
| From the "Zanesville Daily Courier," 13 November 1877, page 2:Copyright 1998-2002, MyFamily.comInc. and its subsidiaries.), "Ancestry Daily News" http://www.ancestry.com/rd/dailynews.htm, June 22, 2002 |
| Plug hats are worn as a mark of distinction in Texas. They also enable the cowboys to shoot them more easily than the low crowned derbies. |
| Excerpts from the "Reno Evening Gazette," 6 June 1884, page 1:Copyright 1998-2002, MyFamily.comInc. and its subsidiaries.), "Ancestry Daily News"http://www.ancestry.com/rd/dailynews.htm, June 15, 2002 |
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| It may be a question whether it is better to have a woman button on a shirt collar for you, or to fight three solid gallons of mosquitoes. |
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| When you see a man whom you know is usually healthy, all bent over as if crippled with rheumatism, don't jump to the conclusion that he is suffering with that disease. He may merely have been digging up the yard for his wife to plant flowers. |
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| MAGNETIC POWDERS FALL PROCLAMATION -- Hear ye now, housekeepers all, Kill your bed-bugs in the fall And when spring returns 'tis plain You need not do the work again. Clear your cellars, too, of rats, By a surer means than cats. LYON'S POWDER, as you know, Lays each noxious insect low. While his Pills, the rates and mice Finish in a single night. Half a dollar is the price-- Buy, and put your foes to flight. The principal depot for the sale of LYON'S MAGNETIC POWDER, warranted harmless to human beings, and his MAGNETIC PILLS, for the destruction of Rats and Mice, 24 Broadway. |
| From the "New York Daily Times," 10 October 1851, page 3:Copyright 1998-2002, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.), "Ancestry Daily News"http://www.ancestry.com/rd/dailynews.htm, 6/15/2002 |
| Mosquitoes are free from one vice at least. They can't stand cigaret smoke. |
| From the "Sandusky Star Journal," 18 September 1907, page 4: Copyright 1998-2002, MyFamily.comInc. and its subsidiaries.), "Ancestry Daily News"http://www.ancestry.com/rd/dailynews.htm, June 15, 2002 |
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