Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1917 — WORLD FULL OF CONTRARIES [ARTICLE]

WORLD FULL OF CONTRARIES

Many of Them Are Hard to Explain, but It Is Certain That They Exist—Some Examples. The most popular 1 books for children have been written by the childless, and some of the most powerful stories of love and domestic bliss or misery have been' written by unmarried women and men. And then, as you probably know, almost everyone thinks he knows more about other brandies of business than the one in which he is engaged. The average man can recall the time when he thought the other fellow’s job was much easier than his, and was haunted more or less With the notion that if he had taken ufl almost anything else but what lie had, lie would have made a great success o{ it. It is said there has never, or hardly Fver/lieen a great copied la n who didn’t believe or think he believed, that his forte was tragedy; and as if not to be outdone, the successful tragedian ceases to curse the luck that prevented him from becoming a comedian. You may not think this is a coutrary sort of world, but there are a lot of people who do—Pittsburgh GazetteTimes.