Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1916 — NOTHING IN PARTICULAR [ARTICLE]

NOTHING IN PARTICULAR

Homeliness makes a boy popular because it takes the conceit out of him. All men love liberty; but few of tho extent of remaining a lifelong bachelor. A trained nurse gets along splendidly when she meets up With a trained Invalid. Don’t let your footprints on the sands of time show that your shoes badly need half-soling. It is a sign of slovenliness. Saints of old wore hair shirts as penance, but they would have rejoiced In a saw-edge collar that has been in the laundry too often. “With all my worldly goods I thee endow,” doesn’t seem to stir up the fuss that is so often made over that short and ugly word, “obey,” A canoe was the best that the Indian could do, else he would never have thought of going on the water In such a thing.—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.