Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1912 — THOUGHTS AND FACTS [ARTICLE]

THOUGHTS AND FACTS

Swimming and chess are taught In the public schools of Sweden. Success is uncertain, but there’s never any doubt about failure. "Coke Joints" in New York afford a cocaine debauch for a quarter. / It is said that they who make breakfast their chief m§al live longest A big man doesn’t have anything Uke as many opportunities to fight as a little one. Where the wife Is the "better half," the husband is apt to be the “submerged tenth." If the Lusitania Is an ocean greyhound, Is Vedrlnes’ record-breaking monoplane a sky terrier? T. R. says a baby carriage Is a finer thing than a motor car. Strange how the prices of limousines still keep up! Downing street, the home of the English government, is named after George Downing, an American and a graduate of Harvard.