Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — THINGS WON’T LAST [ARTICLE]

THINGS WON’T LAST

NOTHING IS MADE DURABLE NOW, WAILS A MAN. ~ K / Penholder, Used Only Seventeen Years, Already Beginning t 0 Get Rusty and in Time. Need a New (WFa "Why is It,” qajd— bj who incidentally * living and whojk£s Jw? UL, , use > .®Kc?T’ lne to “Look at that penholder, win you? As you qee, it is a simple round piece ° f ?TL about as big as a lead Pencil and having around one end of it a steel band, in the far end of which there is,a place to insert a pen But just look at that steel attachment now will you—rusty in pome pi aceß an( i all corroded and crusted with inkpretty nearly worn out, and I’ve been using that penholder only 17 years. “In some places the metal has been eaten entirely away, and the holding end is now so cnoked up inside with rust and crust that It’s hard work for me to get a pen into it so that it wiU hold. I don’t suppose I’ll be able »o use that penholder at the most more than two or three years more “And I shall have to give it up and break in a new one. This one fits my hand and I have long been used to it. Really, it seems like a friend to me. With it I jiave written yards and yards of stuff, and some of it I hope, pretty— ’ “But it’s the penholder we are speaking about! and How it is wearing out I suppose when the steel finally gets beyond use I could hi ve a new one, just like the old, pul on, •nd if I should break the han lie I could have a new handle put 1J the steel. But it wouldn’t be the olc .penholder. “I knew a man, once who lilad a pocket knife that he had loni car-. Tied, and that he highly treasure i. In the course of time t he had new 1 lades put in his knife, till the blade! were all new, and then when the | indie broke he had ’em put on a net handle. In all these new parti they copied exactly the old; In diml sions and materials it was all th J ame, practically if was the same ol® nife; and yet this man said that hl.ever could make the rebuilt knifV seem the same to him. ■ “I feel that it would be w the same if I should undertake to® mild my penholder; and now tfl s is every Indication that it wilMo up the flume completely after of only a score of years. “Why can’t be have duraß penholders?”—Washington Post.Bi