Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1916 — SAYINGS OF A SOUR CYNIC [ARTICLE]

SAYINGS OF A SOUR CYNIC

There are things that one never does more than once—such as loving "an forgiving a woman and meeting a Zeppelin bomb. They say a man’s love is lived, but it has never been conclusively proved whether It is tlje man’s nature or v\oaian’s natqre which Is responsible. A hero of a magazine story is described as “Sitting in the car as one dazed, bis fingers groping blindly for the clutch.” We suppose his feet were numb, or perhaps he hadn't-shy-It is as hard for a woman to understand how a man can leave off loving her as it is for other women to understand how he ever loved her at all. “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Perhaps that ts why Bcandal is generally so much more interesting than “confidences.” Qne has to invest the whole interest of fine’s mind and heart and body in the business of living if one really wants to make a success of it. t **’ People need know nothing as long as they don’t know they know nothing, for once they know nothing they get to know something. Love has so many components. It Is like beads threaded on the string of trust —break that end and all the beads are scattered. Everyone likes to be run after, but the difference In the matter between men and women is that men don’t want to be caught and women do.