Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1914 — MATTERS TO PONDER OVER [ARTICLE]

MATTERS TO PONDER OVER

'Some Timely Thoughts That Will Be Found Worth More or Less Consideration. I like to talk about the "good old times” once in awhile; but I believe the new times are better. Compare the comforts of life and the facilities Sor carrying on farm work of the •resent day with those bf 25 years ago and you will agree with me, I think. We are living in the best time and in the best country the world ever saw, but some of us have not yet found it out. You can almost tell what kind'of a farmer a man is by the rattle of his mowing machine. The best kept machinery makes the least noise. Too many of us believe in co-opera-tion of the kind that means: You help me and I’ll help myself. The man who can afford to dress his wife and daughter comfortably and well and does not is a sorry sort of a fellow. Cod made woman’s body the most beautiful thing on earth and he intended that it should be properly clothed and cared for. Many a boy’s heart has been hurt and his disposition soured by senseless and thoughtless criticism of his personal appearance and manners. The young heart is always sensitive to ridicule —the cruelest weapon that can be used —and It should never be directed against a boy or girl. Recollections of undeserved and thoughtless ridicule of dress, the result of poverty, 40 years ago, causes the blood to rush to our own faces to this day —C. M. 8.