Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1916 — Practical Diplomacy. [ARTICLE]

Practical Diplomacy.

“Papa,” inquired a young hopeful of some seven summers, as he looked up from a book he was reading, “there’s a word here which puzzles me—diplomacy?” “Diplomacy, my son,” and the old man smiled paternally as he said it “means this: Doing or saying precisely the right thing at precisely the right time.” “Ah I” retorted the young hopeful, “then I guess I exercised diplomacy last night” "How, my son?” inquired the fond parent “Why, I rolled Johnny over into my place just before ma came in with the castor oil, and then back again just before she came to the other side.”