Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1913 — Practical? Well! [ARTICLE]

Practical? Well!

“The trouble with you poets,” said the hard-headed business man, “is that you are not practical. You are mere dreamers.” “Practical?” replied the bard; “every time I make a new stanza at the rate of 50 cents a line I know just how far it is going to go in providing the children with new shoes. If that isn’t practical, what do you call being practical?”