Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1911 — THE CYNIC SAYS: [ARTICLE]

THE CYNIC SAYS:

Pessimism is the wraith of lost illusions. Widows’ weeds are not always grave affairs. The optimist pictures love an oasis in the desert —the pessimist as a mirage. , In love as in gambling, the true devotee plays for the game’s sake, not for the prize. The man who laughs at his troubles deprives his friends of the satisfaction of laughing at him. Some women are born with beauty; some achieve beauty; but none ever have beauty thrust upon them. When a woman ceases to be strait laced she loses caste with her own sex, but a man just begins to be popular. A deserted husband has the sympathy of all the widows and old maids, while a deserted wife is looked on with suspicion. Notwithstanding woman’s readiness to give a piece of her mind, no man who ever endeavored to fathom her mind reported any decrease. The youthful love# who lacks words to express his ecstasy of bliss generally finds an inexhaustible flow at some later day when he has to pay the freight.—Smart Set.