Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1912 — Honor Utterer of Epigrams. [ARTICLE]

Honor Utterer of Epigrams.

The Japanese are great admirers of epigrams and apt phrases.. Their love of such things Is carried so far that when a guest says something unusually brilliant the host or hostess will beg him to write down his remark in large ornainehtar script The sentence is then mounted and hung on the wall as a permanent addition to its ornaments, much as we might hang up a text orV motto Naturally the author of a bon mot treated in this way feels himself highly honored to be thus placed on record. But the sentences are selected more for their wisdom than their humor; so that the funny man is not much in evidence.