Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — Globe Sights. [ARTICLE]

Globe Sights.

Every serious mistake a man makes loses him a friend. If life seems long, get to work, and you will find it all too short. The world was made before some people, but, to hear them talk, you would never know it. There are some people who think they have done their duty to the world when they have had children. If half the things a man says about his friends should reach their ears, he would have to run to the jumping-off place. You very often see a rich man who cannot be persuaded into matrimony by any woman, but rich women are easily coaxed. It would be a great surprise to you if you could know how few people agree with the nice things that are occasionally said about you. We have noticed that the man who says “If I were you,” does not do a bit better when the circumstances change so that he is in your place. A rapidly growing evil, and one that reformers would do well to tackle, is the custom of young people marrying without a cent in the world to marry on. It must be the ambition of the average parent to raise giants in his family. You can always flatter a parent by telling him his child is large for its age. You can always please a certain kind of man by saying flattering things to him, but the man who is pleased that way is the one you never feel nice things about. The vacant place you will leave in the hearts of your friends when you die will have a new tenant before the memories you left behind can be decently swept out. The air is full of the awful and horrible rumor that the old hoop skirt made so large that a woman wearing one can scarcely get through a doorway, is coming into style again. A girl may take her love affairs to a fortune teller before she is married, but we have noticed that after she marries, they become so serious that she takes them to the Lord. A nice man is one who can enjoy himself all the better when there are women present, but a nice woman is one who enjoys herself best when there are no men around.— Atchison Globe.