Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1917 — BROWNIES [ARTICLE]

BROWNIES

The Greek demon is a regular Sparta cuss. Moses was given two tables, and he didn’t have dyspepsia either. Nowadays women sow as well as sew and are doing so all along the line. J —Horses- are so-scarce on-the streets that the buzz wagons are beginning to shy at them. It seems like a waste of life and leather for a man to walk past six or seven churches In order to find the one that fits his soul. After all there are a lot of things that a man without an income doesn’t have to worry about. No prying official Is going so come and take his excess profits away from him. Heard of a man the other dhy who had spent eleven months Inventing a pretzel-bending machine only to find that the pretzel had become undesirable because of its accent. Some guy is writing a brochure on the literature of college yells. None of the yells we ever heard could be suspected of being literature unless a boiler explosion can be called a poem, i —Met frniM -the other- day-who- wanter to start a school of correspondence with a course in kaiser killing. Killing kings by mail is a new one. He must have been thinking of the mailed fist.