Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1910 — DYSPEPTIC PHILOSOPHY. [ARTICLE]

DYSPEPTIC PHILOSOPHY.

“Silence is golden” is the motto of the blackmailer. After a man gets used to being a martyr he seems positively to enjoy it. It’s a well-trained conscience that can be made to speak only when it is spoken to. It doesn’t require very much encouragement for any woman to make love—to herself. Some people seem to have an idea they could give Inside Information to the recording angel. / Art Is long and time is fleeting, especially when a man’s time is more valuable than his art. One-half of the world doesn’t know how the other half lives, but rather suspects -it’s on alimony. Friendship demonstrates that two persons can get so thick they can’t see other. Nothing pleaeses the average man more than to find a button off when his wife hasn’t time to sew it on. After a man has been married for aboutj.6 years he can make his wife do almost anything she feels like doing. Even the man who is the architect of his own fortune doesn't always succeed in getting the sun in every room. There are lots of men who would like to go home about eleven o’clock, but wouldn’t know what excuse to make fer coming home so early.