Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — CHIPS OF WISDOM [ARTICLE]

CHIPS OF WISDOM

You can drive a pen to ink, but you can’t make it tbink. Sound advice, paradoxically, is the kind that makes the least noise. Many a man doesn’t get along because of his own shortcomings. We don’t often get a show unlesss we have the price of admission. When two girl friends have a fall- . ing out it’s pretty safe to ask his name. If you are going to save up for a rainy day, don’t wait till you see the clouds. It is seldom the fellow who has money to burn that keeps the pot boiling. Woman may belong to the weaker sex, but she is generally strong on argument. There is quite a difference between hoping for the best, and really expecting It. .' The only alm some people have in life is to prove that they might have been worse than they really are.