Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1913 — Mis [?] [ARTICLE]

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Wall of a Man Who Woadsrs Why Things Cant Be Made Mora Durable. “Why is it,” said a man of habit who incidentally writes things for a living and who basnot yet come to ,bm a typewriter, “why is ft that fixings can’t be made durable? “Look at that penholder, wffl you? A* you see, it is a staple Mund piece of wood about as big a® a lean pencil and having around on® and o< ft a. steel band in th® tar end <rf which there ie a place to insert a pen. But jwt look at that steel attachment now, wffl y uu> iviaty In acme places and all oorroded and crusted with ink; pretty nearly worn out, and I’ve- been using that penholder only seventeen years. “In acme places the metal ha® bee® eaten entirety aiway, and the holding end is now SO choked up inside with rust and crust that ft** hand weak fior me to get a pen into ft ao thsrf it will hold. I don’t suppose PH be able to use that penholder at th® moat moral than two or three year® mere, “And I shall have to give it up and break in a new one. This one fit* my hand and I have long been used to IL Really, it seems tike a friend to me. With it I have written yard® and yards and yayds of staff, and oom® of it I hope, pretty . "But ft’s the penholder we are speaking about; and now it hr wearing out I suppose when the steel finally gets beyond use I could have a new one, just like the old, pot on; and if I Should break the handle I could have a new handle put in the steel. But it wouldn’t be the bld penholder. “I knew a man once who bad a pocket knife that he had long carried and that he highly treasured. In the course of time h€ had new blades put in this knife till the blade® were all new, and then when the handle broke he had ’em put in a new handle. In an these new parts they copied exactly the old in dUnenstaM and materials it was all th® somet practically it was the same old knife; and yet this man said that he never could make the rebuilt knife seem th® same to him. “I feel that it would be Just the same if I should undertake to rebuild my penholder; and now there is every indication that it will go up the flume completely after a use erf only a score of years. "Why can’t we have durable penholders?” —New York Sun.