Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1918 — Wise and Otherwise. [ARTICLE]

Wise and Otherwise.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and we’ll admit that the farther off some men are the better we like them. In the days before the telephone how did father manage to get word to mother in the afternoon that he wouldn’t be home for dinner. A lot of valuable time is •wasted in boasting. One of the" things most of us need to make up our minds to is that the other fellow is just as patriotic as we ourselves are. How tender home-grown lettuce looks in the catalogue pictures !