Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1916 — Waste of Time. [ARTICLE]

Waste of Time.

“You say this naturalist has spent many years studying the monkey language?” "Yes. I understand he can almost converse with them." “Well, well." “You don’t seem much Impressed.” “To tell the truth, I’m not. I don’t see what a monkey could say to a human being that would be worth listening to.” Some people act as though they were afraid they might forget their troubles if they didn’t talk about them all the time. They once tried to shut a woman up in a lunatic asylum—but they say she kept on talking.