Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1918 — FLASHLIGHTS [ARTICLE]

FLASHLIGHTS

Beauty may be only skin deep, but that’s deep enough if a girl has beauty. There’s something radically wrong with the man who isn’t welcome at home. Everybody who owns a car admits that the worst driver in the world is the other fellow. Some fellows’ idea of helping to win the war is to sit down and hope that it won’t last' much longer. —• Some men will give almost anything you ask of them to a good cause except their own time and effort. Sometimes we get to wondering just what kind of a war It would be if th© tightwads had the running of IL Now that so many states have gone dry We have the unusual spectacle of a man beating it home to get a drink. Practice makes perfect in nearly all things, but practice can’t make a songbird out of a young woman whose voice wasn’t intended by nature to warble a note. > One of the joys of spending four years making a garden is just as soon as the roses begin to reward you for your labor your wife decides to sell the place and move somewhere else.