Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1914 — WIT and HUMOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WIT and HUMOR

FIND PLEASURE WITH MONEY

Being Too Busy in Hoarding Up Wealth, Americans Spend a Large Portion of It on Politicians. The objects of pleasure are two In number. First, to kill time, and, second, to keep us from doing something else which would make us more miserable. The pleasures of the American people, roughly speaking, are likewise twofold; namely, making money and spending it Some people derive all their pleasure from making money, and others all their pleasure from spending it Others combine the two. Being an inventive people, the Americans have created many ways of spending money. Being too busy making it, to spend any time on the drudgery of running their' country they spend a large portion of it in supporting the politicians. This, indeed, ‘is one of their chief pleas,ures. And their superb sense of humor enables them to enjoy intensely the accounts of what all the politicians are doing, which enterprising papers publish from day to day. The Americans have other pleasures, but compared with this one they' are mostly trivial. —Life.