Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1915 — What Grandmother Knows. [ARTICLE]

What Grandmother Knows.

That don’t butt in—unless you are a goat. That dyspepsia is one kind of food product That some men talk like $1:98 phonographs. That ignorance is the stepmother of argument. That few women listen to half the things they say. That six feet of bathtub makes most of us equal. That the school of experience is open 24 hours daily. That it is easier to call a man a liar than it is to prove it. That when the office seeks the man there is nothing in it. That love may be blind, but ail* mony is an expert Oculist. That the highest ambition of sonic thieves 4s«ta chicken roost. That a surgeon may be ready to cut anything except 1 his bill. That there’ll come a threshing time for those who sow wild oats. That experience teaches that a lot of it doesn’t teach anything. That fear of being reformed keeps many a man in the bachelor class. That look for happiness; trouble will come without being looked for. That the poet wears his hair long because there is ho short eut to fame. That really big men are measured by what they do, not by what they say. That every mother believes her baby knows exactly what she says to it. That it’s surprising how much attention women attract from each other. That a clear conscience is more to be desired than a pull with the police. , That many a man’s character is formed before marriage—and reformed after: ’ That the man at the bottom of the ladder has one advantage over tfie man at the top—he doesn't have so far to fall