Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1913 — The ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The ONLOOKER

S.E. KISER

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He always slept out on the porch, so that he might breathe germless air; He kept from eating starchy food and lived upon the plainest fare; He wore hygienic underclothes.; to pleas» his wife he soorned cigars And never would consent to ride in poorly ventilated cars. He never guzzled any kind of stuff, containing alcohol; He had no taste for cigarettes and never used the things at all; He never jumped on moving 'trains nor monkeyed with a rusty gun, He never ran such risks as nine' men out of ten men daily run. He walked according to a rule that’ experts had agreed upon, And in accordance with a rule he’d read somewhere, hid breath was drawn; But he is lying ’neath the sod; it seem* that he somehow forgot That falling in a well at night will *■ rnan as like as not.