Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1917 — VIEWS OF A CYNIC. [ARTICLE]

VIEWS OF A CYNIC.

No girl wants a secret marriagestill It is better thf.3 none. When fame does not come to the average man it roasts on his tombstone. It Is difficult for a man to convince a woman that she is in the wrong when she knows she is. Occasionally a girl marries a man just to keep him from hanging around the house every evening. Married life is a game of questions and .answers. It’s the wise man who asks few questions, and a wiser one who gives brief answers. The people who don’t work believe labor to be the salvation of the rest of us. Matrimony is that part pf life indicated on love’s map as the horrid zone. Most of the great inventions of the world are due to men. They haven’t any hairpins to do things with.

Wouldn’t we be great if we were as great as we think we are? If you want an amusing companion find a woman with a past. Her reminiscences are always interesting. Pride makes some people ridiculous and prevents others from becoming so. The only way that a true gentleman will ever attempt to look at the faults of a pretty woman is to shut his eyes.