Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1881 — How to Be Nobody. [ARTICLE]

How to Be Nobody.

It is easy to be nobody, and wo will tell you how to do it. Go to the drink- * ing saloon to spend your h isure time. You need not drink much now-just a little beer or some other drink. In the meantime, play dominoes, or something cli/e to kill time, so that you will be sure noK to read any useful books. If you read anything, let it be the cheap novels of the day ; thus go on keeping your stomach full, and your head empty, and yourself playing time killing games, and in a few years you will be nobody, unless you should turn out a drunk aid, or a professional gambler, either of which is worse than nobody. There are any number of young men hanging around Bar-parlors, just ready to graduate and be nobodies.