Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1910 — THE AMATEUR PHILOSOPHER [ARTICLE]

THE AMATEUR PHILOSOPHER

It always helps some to be thought wealthy. The high road to success has many attractive looking forks. Almost anything that isn’t true sounds smart —if it’s wicked enough. A college education is the beginning of many a brilliant success —and failure. We try to believe everything a man says except when he talks about his business. When a man calls himself a fool the public suspects he has inside information. We don’t know much about the modern novel —perhaps because we have read several. Young man, it is all right to love your mother, but don’t leave her to carry up the coal. Ed Howe says everyone is afraid of a silent man; but then think what a dull time he has. If you wish to know a woman’s age, ask her at what period of life a woman is most interesting. Every other man you meet thinks he can run a restaurant, that a farmer has the most enjoyable life and that there is "money fn the poultry business —if he hasn’t tried any of them.