Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1916 — Wise and Otherwise. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Wise and Otherwise.

Misery loves company—-“and she usually has plenty of it. Too much of the noise in this world tries to pass itself off as music. It’s better to be wrong at the right time than right at the wrong time. Any man who can catch a flea in the dark can hoe his own row In politics; . There Is no hope for the man who acts the hypocrite even when he Is alone. A woman who is a has-been beauty Is as fussy as a man who has lost his hair. Many a man’s love for his club is due to the fact that his wife never gives her tongue a rest. Give a man his choice of making friends or money and he’ll not hesitate more than a second. Few men have will power enough to do the things they don’t want to do and don’t have to, but should do. Books are desirable companions; when they bore you it is an easy matter to shut them up without giving offense.

the ball would lose all its speed long before It reached the platter. “I decided to throw that ball just as a desperate experiment, and I threw It. The globule sauntered along, way low, below Tom’s kneeline, and he stood scoffing at'lt Then, just as the ball came parallel with him, it leaped and whirled over the plate, while the umplre yelled ‘Strike three!’ “Old Tom Tucker laid down his bat and started toward me, with evidence of much excitement on his face, but I ■was already on my way, add was going fast That night he came to the hotel looking for me and publicly announced that he Intended to slay me on sight, but I wasn’t in and he never gpt Ids hands upon me.”

Clark Griffith.