Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1917 — SNAPSHOTS [ARTICLE]

SNAPSHOTS

Misfortune Is the bosom friend of the man who “didn’t think.* Men are worn out, enfeebled, aged more by corroding care than by hard labor. We always love those who admire us; wo do not always love those whom we admire. True manhood comes from self-con-trol —from subjection of the lower powers to the higher conditions of our being. Real struggling is Itself real living, and no ennobling thing of this earth is ever to be had by man on any other terms. Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do the danger is that we shall do nothing. The road ambition travels Is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, too dark for science. Men are like trees—each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. Education Is only like good culture; It changes the size but not the sort. To know the pains of power we must go to those who have It; to know its pleasures we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. In the active and vigorous games and merriment of children there are the most health-giving conditions that can be’obtained, because they are the wise combination of exercise and mi rth.