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

SOME REMARKS

Where Is the old-fashioned glr! who pushed her sklrta floor-ward when she sat down? You will never lose anything by keeping an engagement punctually — except your time waiting for the other fellow. The only news We have from the spring training camps is that eight teams will be tied for the first place In each league. Among the things the men regretfully give up In Lent is the pleasure of making those long formal calls with their wives. Anyway, all these bonds the European governments are issuing will give the holders the right to attend a meeting of the creditors. The old automobile is Just as ef--feetlve in giving you the ©pen airland health stimulus, but it doesn’t impress the neighbors so much. On getting a package of garden seeds from Washington, one almost feels as if his congressman had come around and asked his opin|oi\ on all pending measures. In the theater of war, Caroline, they do not use opera glasses but periscopes. The program Includes plenty of scenes and the actors are many. Instead of asbestos, they have a smokecurtain. The young lady across the way says so many people are beginning to cook by electricity that she supposes It won’t be many years before gastronomies go the way of the old-fash-ioned coal ranges.