Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 313, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1918 — SAYINGS OF A CYNIC [ARTICLE]

SAYINGS OF A CYNIC

The fruit of labor Is stress, but the Juice is often sour. . ■./ Marriage isn’t even a good lottery; a man b&s a chance in a lottery. ~ A man shows signs of Understanding a woman when he doesn’t try to refute her arguments. Gout is too fashionable to be cured. It generally takes 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. Some nations and all women begin hostilities without declaring wai*. We often discard the wrong cards, and sometimes it happens that way with friendships. * The 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. —Chicago Herald.