Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1917 — Wise and Otherwise. [ARTICLE]
Wise and Otherwise.
A man’s chief fault Is in having so many small ones.Historians are prophets whose faces are turned backward. There are just as many seconds in a spare moment as there are in a full one. If a woman is truly good she never sits up nights to talk about her neighbors. Don’t think in order to be forceful it is necessary to step on other people’s toes. Very few men w’ould strive to achieve fame if it wasn’t for the sake of some woman. Men talk about their habits, but it would be more accurate for the habits to talk about their men. There are higher things in life for a woman than a beautiful complexion —her new store hair, for example.
