Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1910 — SPLINTERS. [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS.

The thin father Is proud of his fat baby. How an amateur does love to criticise a professional. Breezy conversation is often tainted by the breath of scandal. Don’t place too much confidence in any man’s opinion of himself. People who live in glass houses have no business in politics. Too many men go around looking for work with their eyes shut. You can’t always tell how much a man can drink from the size of his mug. A man hopes for the best until he gets it—then he hopes for something better. It is difficult to believe that some men are made of dust —for dust always settles. Men look on matrimony as a. game of chance, while women look on it as a sure-thing game. What’s the good of knowing each other in heaven when we so soon forget each other here on earth? If. the world isn’t better for your having lived in it, it will be a little better after you get out of it. It’s difficult to believe that practise makes perfect after listening i to the chap who practises on a cornet