Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1917 — SAYINGS OF A CYNIC [ARTICLE]

SAYINGS OF A CYNIC

A little bit of skirt generally leads to a large slfce of trouble. A woman may ask for love and still prefer a stone—set in platinum. Almost any girl can triumph over another if her dress allowance Is bigger. A flatterer is one who plays the role of echo to one’s own thoughts. The woman whom every other woman likes is one whom no man will ever take. A flirt is a girl with a liking for sweets, long gloves and short love affairs. A woman has no use for a kingdom with women In it. She prefers her territory to be entirely masculine. Love is a disease that can be checked at any time by a dose of sense taken in the cold water of truth. Why a woman is so fond of dallying with a cigarette Is because It generally leads to dalliance with a man. Women look upon marriage as a sort of exploring’expedition to a country where the first savage they meet will be a husband.