Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1911 — SAYS THE CYNIC [ARTICLE]

SAYS THE CYNIC

Pride loses Its flavor when you have to swallow it. , Of course it makes a man feel small to get into a tight place. * - As a rule the quieter the wedding the noisier the divorce. Many a man’s philosophy is merely dyspepsia of the intellect. A man may forget himself and get away with it, but never when he for* gets him wife. Some husbands ahd wive sare so congenial that they even wear the same neckties. y : The .man who n£ver smiles inspires no more confidence than the dog who never wags his tail. A wife may be a man’s balance wheel, but he doesn’t always want her to operate the brakes. Life is full of contradictions. Why is it that the bashful, quiet man ah ways wears shoes that squeak? We all flatter ourselves that we have great powers of resistance till we stack up against temptation. My idea of an optimist is a young man who has been turned down by his best girl, yet realizes how happy he has made her. A group of married women can’t talk to a bachelor more than ten minutes without agreeing that he knows more than he has any business to know. r