Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1917 — Bound to Be Tidy. [ARTICLE]

Bound to Be Tidy.

A fastidious old gentleman was*enjoying a cigar with a friend. The guest, having reached the end of his Havana, hurled the stump onto the well-kept lawn. “What made you throw your cigar there?” said the old man, angrily. “See how unsightly it is on the lovely grass.” “That surely won’t do any harm,” said the other, “for nobody would notice a little thing like that.” “My dear fellow,” solemnly replied the old grumbler, “it’s just little things like these that constitute tidiness, and tidiness is half the comfort of life.” His friend said no more for a time, and in a few moments he arose hurriedly, disappeared, and was absent for a full twenty minutes. “Where on earth have you been?” said his host, when he returned at last. “Oh, I’ve only been across the meadow to spit in the river.”