Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1918 — SHOTS FROM THE MAGAZINE [ARTICLE]

SHOTS FROM THE MAGAZINE

After all, the hardest extravagant habit to give up is one’s wife. A lord high admiral of the German navy has resigned; but the navy quit first. Germany seems to have found a good market in the United States for tainted money. A pacifist is one who judges the patent medicine by the almanac that comes with it. Peace treaties are like oranges; picked top soon, they are green; left too long, they are rotten. Many a young man goes to sleep over a harmless flirtation and awakens to find himself married. • Trouble is Inexhaustible; despite the increased number of borrowers there is always enough to go round. Of course the Germans are not taking the American troops in France seriously ; they are not taking them at all. Prospective candidates for state office are respectfully warned that the early boom doesn’t always catch the nomination. German’s peace terms to Russia look suspiciously as though she were trying to squeeze the bears in a cornered market.