Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1911 — SOME SMART SAYINGS [ARTICLE]

SOME SMART SAYINGS

, LIFE AND PEOPLE. . - -j| — —— —•-—-—■ — o , .va! r •.* • ■jy • .... •. * * Remarks That WHi &£ Irving Bacheller has left behind "Eben Holden’’ and the school of “Keeping Up With Lizzie,” but has made. one. character, Socrates Potter, a shrewd but educated small - town lawyer, the philosopher ot “Keeping Up With LCzzipj" Here are some of his sayings: “The-landll soak up all the education you’ve got and yell for more. Its great need is education. We’ve pnt everything on the farm but brains.” “It costs money, big money an’ more, to produce a generation of in- ' • * A “Every spoilt woman stands for « fool man. Most o’ them need not* a master but a frank counsellor.’’ “The boys are concluding it’s cheaper to buy a piano-player than, to marry one; that canned prim a donnas are better than the home grown article; that women are more to be desired than playthings." “One day in the old time a couple of industrious Yankees were hard at work in a‘field. Suddenly one said to the other, 1 wisluL had ten thousand dollars,’ and the other asked, ‘What would j&ou do with it?’ The wisher answered, ‘What would I do with it? Why, you cussed fool, I’d set down —an’ without blamin’ myself.’ ” “I can get more fun out of one happy human soul than, out of all the dogs an’ horses in creation.” ... Y “Cares are like boils: it don’t do. to get rid of 'em too. quick. They’re often a great relief to the inside, of a man, an’ it’s better to have ’em on •the surface than way down in your marrow.” Y “-You’ve got to reach the women, somehow, you see, before you can improve the social conditions of a community. I love them, but many are overgrown children, doin’ . nothing with singular skill an’ determination an’ often with, appalling energy.” “If we must all he lawyers or bankers or brokers or graspin’ iniddleipen in order to live, let’s start a big asylum for the upright an’ give ’em a chance to die comfortably.” ‘One o’ these days the old earth ’ll be lopsided with the fruitfulness of America.” rY “Now, there’s Bill Warburton. I supposed he was a friend o’ mine, hut I caught him tryin’ to slip an automobile on me. There he was tryin’ to rob me o’ the use o’ my legs an’ about fifteen hundred a year for expenses, an’ build me Into * fat man with indigestion, an’ livei* complaint. I served an injunction on him.”