Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1914 — The Easier Way. [ARTICLE]

The Easier Way.

“How I hated work in those days!” said Mark Twain, recalling his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri. “One morning my father led me into the garden and pointed to a bed of flowers that had a considerable number of weeds in it. , “ ‘I want you,’ said my father, ‘to wCed out this flower bed.’ “I examined bhe task ahead of me, and the more I looked at it, the bigger It seemed to grow. Certainly I had never seen so many weeds in my life. “ ‘Wouldn’t it be a simpler operation,’ I said to my father, ‘to flower out the weed bed?’ ”