Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1917 — SOME OBSERVATIONS [ARTICLE]

SOME OBSERVATIONS

It is difficult to love your neighbor on a party-line telephone. One way to be popular is to let your neighbors think that they are. To see a chicken on the doorstep when you arrive means too much company. As a rule, real statesmanship consists in providing proper laws for the other taxpayers. Of course, new fashions always look funny, but the comedy wears off when the bills come in. Abyssinian empress is named Zeoditu. A pretty name —we like It better than Theodolite. I? Occasionally the lady in public life may be a good housekeeper, but she does not often work at it. It is to the credit of the American maiden that the baseball uniform is never as attractive as the khaki.

■ We may laugh at superstition, but it is safer to nail a horseshoe over your door than to bet on a racetrack favorite.