Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1917 — SAYINGS OF A CYNIC [ARTICLE]

SAYINGS OF A CYNIC

The fruit of labor Is success, but the juice Is often sour. Marriage isn’t even a good lottery; a man has a chance In a lottery. A man shows signs of understanding a woman when he doesn’t try to refute her Gout is too fashionable to be cured. It generally taker a woman to mend a man’s ways. From the free list to the blacklist is but a jump. All women are convinced that all men are terrible, except possibly one. About the time a man ought to quit wearing red ties he begins to wear them. Some people are like shadows —they are with you only when everything is fair. - I Some nations and all women begin hostilities without declaring war. We often discard the wrong cards, and sometimes it happens that' way with friendships. i Tfie virtues of men. at best, are negative ; I admire a woman for what she is and a man for what he isn’t. When a young man once drops into poetry he seldom gets on his feet again. Herald.