Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — BROWNIES , [ARTICLE]

BROWNIES ,

A burnt child makes a strange bedfellow. Talking too much and thinking too little has spoiled many a career. Better a loaf of bread and content than a boiled dinner and indigestion. The blue-eyed man and the blackeyed woman make a peach of a pair. It is usually the baldheaded man who knows exactly what will make hair grow. A man may be following the dictates of his conscience and yet never catch up with it. If a man got what was coming to him it is blamed seldom that he wduld get what he wanted. Facial experts say that men with long noses are conceited. So are mew with short ones, b’gee. Some of these professional uplifters are almost as much of a nuisance as the professional shoplifter. An amazon friend has the idea that a trained husband is one who doesn’t even Ask for a latchkey. It is knowledge of the law and not ignorance that excuses many people in the breaking of the same.