Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1917 — FLASHLIGHTS [ARTICLE]

FLASHLIGHTS

Unless you are doing your bit your country isn’t as strong as it might be. A woman may call it just a cheap little hat, but It’s a cinch that her husband could have bought hlipself four hats for the same money. The other fellow doesn't cut much figure with us until we have made a mistake that we want someone to share the blame for. /What answer do you make to people who never stay home, when they ask you, who also never get a chance to stay home, why you haven’t been around to call on them lately? The way some of our young folks have been hiking off to get marriage licenses nowadays one would think the papers had never printed a word about the high cost of living. ,