Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1913 — What It Costs to Be a Pig. [ARTICLE]

What It Costs to Be a Pig.

He put his elbows on the table. He ate potatoes with a knife; He reached before the man beside him. And belched against the latter’s wife; .He wiped his nose upon hla napkin. He “chonked" and slopped things her* and th«^e; He never thought of those about him. j Or If he did he didn’t care. Next day he sought to win promotion, , But failed, and cursed his sorry lot; The man whose dinner he had. ruined Was master of the place he sought? . Some men get In the trough and wallow, • Nor care what others think or say— There's, nothing lost In having manners. And being decent by tha way.