Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — Why? [ARTICLE]

Why?

Why do women always step off horse cars facing the wrong way? Why do women always—particularly those who hate each other most—kiss when they meet ? Why do Germans with the most unpronounceable names drink less oeer than plain Yankee John Smiths ? Why are the wooden forks one finds in restaurant horse-raddish pots invariably bereft of at least one tine ? Why are blood-curdling stories of vice, crime and suffering most eagerly read by people whose sensibilities are so delicate that they couldn’t see a fly hurt? Why do people who know the least about newspapers always shed the most advice for the editor’s benefit?— Graphic. Two Texas desperadoes agreed to fight with knives in a closed room at Fort Worth, They were prevented by arrest.