Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1914 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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THE OPTIMIST. Rev. Bouck White, whose six months* jail sentence for interrupting the services in John D. Rockefeller’s church has been sustained on appeal, is noted for his happy fund of anecdote. "I detest the shallow optimist;” Mr. White said at a recent vegetarian banquet in New York. “I detest the shallow optimist who, shutting his eyes to the numberless evils that surround us, insists that, the, world is getting better. . “This man, in fact, reminds me of the nurse whose mistress said: “'Was Johnny good at the party, nurse?’ . “ 'Oh, yes, ma’am,* she replied. *He only broke two vases and kicked four little girls.’”—Minneapolis Journal.