Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1913 — PASSING THOUGHTS [ARTICLE]

PASSING THOUGHTS

The giver is always cheerful when there is a crowd. A doctor never is ill and a lawyei never sues anybody. Most of us will believe a lie and insist on proof of the truth. A reformer always seems to be dieBefore you begin worrying about something today remember what you worried about yesterday.. Some folks have a skeleton in the closet, but have judgment enough to use it for a clothes hanger. The man who raises bantam chickens would question your sanity if you raised a herd of pet elephants. As soon as a man begins to make money he commences to talk about the advancement of civilization. Think of an egg staying in cold storage for years and years wonder ing if it will finish as an omelette or a custard. When a henpecked man goes to heaven he must be always worrying about the day when his wife will arrive on the scene. An optimist is a man who tells you how much worse luck you might have had; a pessimist is a man who tells you how much worse luck he has. For little boys a lie is a “story," for older people it is a “falsehood,” for politicians it is a “roorback,” and for dignified folk it is a “misapplication of the facts” —but it 1b just as big a lie all the time.