Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1917 — SOME REMARKS FROM AUNTY [ARTICLE]

SOME REMARKS FROM AUNTY

Inquiries and Philosophical Reflections ■ Show Deep Thought Has Been j'——Given to Them. g A couple of decades hence, should there by any pedestrians left to dodge automobiles, they will no doubt have a string of eyes all around their heads.. What has become of the old-sash- 4 loned woman who used to start grinding coffee at 3:30 a. m. We have looked in vain for the old gentleman with the goat whiskers, who used to eat peppermints in church. A dog is known by the fights he’s been in. * What’s become of she old-fashioned man that used to polish his shoes with stove blacking just before church on Sunday mornings? Keep your credit good with your grocer—he also sells gasoline. What’s going to become of-the livery stable loafer? There’s no room for him In the garages. - A gallon in the tank beats two In the garage. A writer of an article on how to avoid hurry and worry advises us never to start a second task till we have finished the first. Very helpful to the farmer’s wife with six children, for instance I A largwrwtfV-of the heartache and disappointment connected with' parenthood comes from regarding a child not as an individual with a right to live his own life, make his mistakes and profit by them, but as a choice personal possession, whose chief duty is to “reflect credit” on his parents. Services done out of a hard sense of duty are not likely to benefit either the giver or the receiver.—Farm Life*.