Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1914 — PICAYUNES [ARTICLE]

PICAYUNES

It takes talent to write the last words of great men. When a woman loves it’s because she can’t help it; that’s all. The deserving poor are generally those who do not deserve to be poor. The colonel considers it a compliment to be told he fought like a major. “To him that hath shall be given.” A full house generally gets all the chips. An exchange says: “Do to yourself as you would do to others.” Is the editor insane? Have you ever noticed that nearly •very fat woman wears her dress' too short in front? The bill collector says there may be a lot of nice people on earth, hut he doesn’t meet them. It may be because love is blind that some women can’t see that the buttons are off their husband’s shirts. A woman can truly be said to have her ups and downs when she runs up bills and runs down her neighbors. “■* * A soft answer may turn away wrath, but there are times when it gives a man genuine pleasure to call another man a liar. A man may be alone in the opinion that he is a great man; but be haß only himself to please in such trifling matters, and can be easily satisfied. When a country correspondent writes that Mrs. Blank was “superbly gowned," instead of “superbly dressed,” It is a certain sign that he received an invitation. A Philadelphia librarian says that Hall Caine’s latest novel is “immoral, trashy and poorly written." How Hall Caine must love that man for his kind words. —New Orleans Picayune.