Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1912 — Man-Vain Man. [ARTICLE]

Man-Vain Man.

He can explain the wireless telegraph system to his wife —and his letters come back to him for better directions. manifests scorn of royalty—and joins the crowd that follows a visiting nobleman. He pays to see two cheap prizefighters maul each other —and whips his son for fighting with another boy, at School. He laughs at the green goods jokes in the papers—and forgets abqut the time he sent money to Flve-Hundred-and-Twenty-Per-Cent Miller. He explains just how to settle the differences between two great nations —and goes to law with his neighbor over a line fence. He derides woman for her frequent changes of fashion—and gives his overcoat away because it is not full enough in the back. He sneers at faith cure —and tries all the hair tonics that are recommended to him.