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Habits
A generation or so ago, a youngster
in his early teens usually was tempted
by those barely older or bolder to try
a puff or two off a Bull Durham or
Golden Grain cigarette.
To him, it was a mark of maturity,
a feeling of daring. The tag from the
nickel sack of tobacco had to hang out
of the pocket so others would know it
was the real thing carried by a real
man.
That led to the crimp cuts in the can
and that to the roll-your-own machines
where you had ready-gummed papers
to make cigarettes that only a trimming
at the ends with a pair of scissors
was necessary to make them look like
the real 15 cents a package, store-
bought, Saturday night kind.
To that generation, it was a harm-
less sort of behind-the-barn thing, a
rebellion against their snuff-dipping,
tobacco chewing parents who didn't dig
the latest thing, who were completely
out of it.
That generation of youngsters was
dead certain it could take tobacco or
leave it, light one up when it wanted
to and swear off for ever and ever
other views
whenever it wished.
That was three wars ago. Today's
youngsters won't believe it but people
are smarter now than they were then.
Doctors know more. Scientists do too.
And some of those people who lit and
puffed one Bull Durham and one Golden
Grain almost a half a century ago are
still rueing that day.
They are tobacco addicts now, given
to lighting up 20 to 40 times a day or
more and being warned all the time
that the habit is probably responsible
for a lot of heart disease, cancer and
other physical ailments.
They would be thousands of dollars
better off over their lifetime if they
had never agreed to prove they weren't
sissies and scairdy-cats and tried to
impress other juveniles with their man-
hood.
Habits start that innocently and trap
the victims that permanently.
Somebody put it this way: "Watch
that first step. It's a sonofagun."
It is. It sets a direction and digs a
rut that a person rarely leaves — nor
benefits from.
Helpful hints
The Texas State Teachers Associa-
tion recently released some sugges-
tions for parents with youngsters who
are entering their first year of school.
If followed, they will unquestionably
make the new venture more pleasant
. . . and will also be helpful to their
teachers.
Here they are:
Teach your child the safest way home.
Teach him (or her) to go directly
home from school without loitering on
the way.
Remind him not to accept rides with
strangers.
Give your child definite duties at
home and see that he performs them.
Help him to establish good listening
habits.
See that your child gets enough
sleep.
Provide your child with a good break-
fast each morning.
See that he is happy before he leaves
for school.
Teach him that policemen are his
friends and that he should go to them
when he needs help.
COW POKES
Teach him to dress himself prop-
erly.
Teach him to have confidence in his
teacher.
Provide opportunities for your child
to be away from his mother for short
periods of time.
Teach your child to respect the
property rights of others.
Allow your child to do as much for
himself as he ir able to do.
Show an interest in what he has to
tell you about his work and play at
school.
Help him to see likenesses and dif-
ferences in objects and forms.
Encourage him to have playmates.
Help him to learn habits of prompt-
ness, obedience and respect for auth-
ority.
Read to your child.
Take him to places of interest such
as the zoo, park and library.
Label his personal belongings with
his name and address.
Praise your child frequently and help
him feel successful.
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By Mrs. Thelma Traylor
A nice attendance met
at the Mt. Olive Metho-
dist Church Sunday. The
new pastor, the Rev. W. T.
Wilkens, brought an in-
spiring message. After
the service, the Rev. Wil-
kens and Mr. Booker ate
lunch with Mrs. L. V.
Clemons.
Mrs. Annie Brown had
as visitors Sunday Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Brown
of Mt. Pleasant, Robert
Crone of Dallas, and Roy
and Charles Edney Satur-
day. Other visitors were
Mrs. Norma J. Royal and
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Sage of Sulphur Bottom
The dullest jobs
family, Miss Marva J.
Edney of Dallas, Johnnie
M. Jones of Texarkana,
and Mrs. EmmaLouCar-
ter and Vivian Betts of
Hughes Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
James and Comoria of
Dallas visited with Mrs.
Nethalia Rainey and fam-
ily Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. B.
Brown left Friday morn-
ing for Amarillo to take
John Walker, who spent
a month with them, to his
home in Denver, Colo. He
is the grandson of Mrs.
Brown.
Johnnie M. Jones of
Texarkana visited with
Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Smith Sunday. Miss Willie
J. Smith and Miss Shirley
Black went to Six Flags
Sunday with Grady James
who carried a busload
from Hughes Springs and
Naples.
Mrs. Katherine Rey-
naud and Miss Evelyn
Taylor ate lunch with
Mrs. Lou Ella McCray
Sunday. Miss Faye Car-
ter and Johnnie M. Jones
visited with them brief-
ly Sunday morning.
Mrs. Thelma Traylor,
Oreatha and Elaine, Mrs.
Ella Lewis shopped in Mu
Pleasant Saturday. They
also visited for a short
time with Mr. and Mrs.
McKinley Johnson.
Mrs. Norma L. Edney
had as visitors over the
week end Miss Marguarie
Edney and children, Rob-
ert Crowe, a brother,
Zora Edney, Marva Jean
Edney of Dallas, and Levi
Green of Naples.
Mrs. L. V. Clemons
had as guests Sunday
Bosie Hillis of Texar-
kana. He attended serv-
ices at Mt. Olive
Mr. and Mrs. Mabe
Johnson had as visitors
Friday Mr. and Mrs. Griff
Shaw and sister from
Hughes Springs.
Cleveland Ives and
Fred Traylor Jr., visited
with Mr. and Mrs. John
Foster Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Washington and family
visited Saturday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Bobby
Lewis.
Mrs. Susie James vis-
ited with her daughter in
Texarkana last Friday.
Mrs. L. V. Clemons,
I. L. Hughes, Mrs. Lula
Pollard, Mrs. Susie
James, Mrs. Lou Ella
McCray, Mrs. Owinda
Hatten, James Muriel and
Sharon, Mrs. Beadie M.
Walton and Delois Bran-
non attended services at
the Unionville Baptist
Church Thursday night.
(Editor's note: The Sage of Sulphur
Bottom on his johnson grass farm re-
flects on various dull jobs this week,
mostly from a theoretical viewpoint.)
Dear editar:
I was reading a three-weeks-old copy
of The Dallas Times-Herald yesterday,
when a man Is confronted with the job
of fixing a fence in the middle of August
he'll read anything he can get his hands
on, and ran into an article that said
that "picking grapes in the blazing
sun is one of the dullest jobs a man
can have."
I have never picked grapes, unless
you count pulling off one or two from
a bunch in the grocery store just to
sample, and don t intend to. just as I
don't intend to do a lot of things around
this johnson grass farm, on the theory
that a public-spirited man, recognizing
that everybody is entitled to a job, will
leave some work for the next genera-
tion.
But I got to thinking. What is the
dullest job a person can have, in or
out of the blazing sun?
Even if it is out of the weather, I've
never been able to imagine a monot-
onously duller job than acting two after-
noons and six nights a week in the
same Broadway play for three years on
end.
I know people who'd choose grape-
picking every time over proofreading,
especially editorials, and proofreading
Girl Scouts
plan activities
Girl Scout Troop 23
officers planned the troop
activities for the nextfour
months at a Court of Hon-
or Monday.
Those present were pa-
trol leaders Melinda Pal-
more and Betsy Narra-
more, treasurer Terri
Smith, scribe Dana Hig-
gins, and adult leaders
Mrs. Keith Higgins and
Mrs. Lee Narramore.
Plans include several
hikes, a field trip to the
post office, making buddy
burners, badge work and
holiday parties.
The troop chose for its
service project making
Christmas tree orna-
ments to be presented to
Redbud Retreat.
The Court of Honor was
held at the home of Mrs.
Narramore.
over playing golf, and playing golf
over selling insurance.
As much as I manage to avoid it,
I'd take going up one row and down
another on a tractor to following a
candidate for three months and listen-
ing to the same speech three times a
day-
Crawling under a low-slung house to
fix a leaky pipe is so dull I've let one
go for months without doing anything
about it.
I've heard returned-soldiers say
that grape picking would be delightful
compared with the monotony of army
life.
Some bachelors say the same about
married life, and some married people
say the same about bachelorhood, al-
though most of them are women.
But I believe I'd nominate for first
place the job the space scientists are
planning for some astronaut. They say
that by mid-August of 1981 they'll
have a man leaving for Mars, arriv-
ing there after 12 months of sailing
through nothing, spending three months
on the planet, swinging past Venus in
1982 and returning to Earth in 1983.
I'm afraid spending two years in a
capsule millions of miles out in space
with a computer for a companion is
going to make grape picking sound
real exciting.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
OBITUARY
Isham B. Cherry
Isham B. Cherry, 82-
year old Mt. Pleasant
man and the grandfather
of Mrs. Morris Craig of
Naples, died at 3 p.m.
Tuesday at the Titus
County Memorial Hos-
pital.
He was a retired
farmer and a longtime
member of the Tennison
Methodist Church.
Funeral services will
be held at 2 p.m. Thurs-
day at the Smith-Bates
Funeral Chapel in Mt.
Pleasant with burial in
the Bridges Chapel ceme-
tery.
Survivors include his
wife, Blanch Gertrude;
three daughters, Mrs. W.
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M. Goss, Mrs. H. E.
Worsham and Mrs. I. C.
Gage all of Mt. Pleasant;
twelve grandchildren and
sixteen great grandchil-
dren; three sisters, Mrs.
Mary King of Talco, Mrs.
Allie Stinson of Mt.
Vernon and Mrs. Ellie
Englehart of Colorado
City, Tex.; four brothers,
Noel Cherry of Arizona,
Temple Cherry of Hedley,
Tex., C. H. Cherry of
Odessa, Tex., and Roy
Cherry of Claud, Tex.
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Craig, Morris G. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1970, newspaper, September 10, 1970; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329671/m1/4/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.