Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — CHEER UP [ARTICLE]

CHEER UP

Did anybody ever get any nutriment eat of repining? “Grin and bear it”—but have your ready the next time! It takes a good horse to win after being left at the post. But the thing has been done time and again. “Hail to the vanquished!” is nice, sympathetic verse —but the victors get the goodies! All hands join the winners! Wrought upon by anxiety? Well, let’s go fishin’ and think it over, encompassed by the placid, wimpling waters! _____ The late Senator Wolcott of Colorado once won a $60,000 jackpot with a pair of sevens. Play ’em as if you had ’em! A week ago today -a glass of water and a toothpick—today filet’mignon and peche Melba —it’s a blithe comedy, fellow-players! Many a man who-has “carried the banner” and sat on a park bench is riding home this afternoon with the Joy of living pulsing through him! “Morning hearts and morning faces” —and the man who wrote these fine, cheery words was a “lunger,” who knew that his doom was upon him! The man who always has had an easy thing of it looks mighty lonesome at a session of regular fellows telling their personally-conducted hardluck stories of the flown years!— Clarence L. Cullen.