Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1917 — MUSINGS OF A CYNIC [ARTICLE]

MUSINGS OF A CYNIC

The fellow who doesn’t believe in hick Is lucky. Time Is money, but It requires genius to effect the exchange. Life Is a mirror In which many a man Is ashamed to look himself in the face. A sure way to Improve tije memory Is to do something you would like to forget. » “The Lord will provide;” and that’s about as far as the lazy man’s religion ever gets. Don’t try to make a guest feel at home ontoss ynn know what sort of home/he has. All the world’s a stage, but a »man seldom hears the prompter when be misses his cue. At any rate, love Isn’t stone blind. It can generally detect a flaw in an enring. Even In resisting temptation most of us are inclined to follow the line of least resistance. Mighty few people make the excuse of being hoarse when asked to sing their own praise. Tfie underdog sometimes proves that lots of us never do our best fighting until we are down. It sometimes happens that even the people who complain that they have nothing to do refuse to do it. When a man starts out to make a fool of himself he can be depended upon to surmount all obstacles. There are always two sides to a story, and the scandalmonger can generally provide five or six more. Elocution may be a good thing, hut it doesn’t go far enough., It merely teaches us how to speak, not when.— Omaha Bee.