Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1918 — FROM THE PENCIL’S POINT [ARTICLE]

FROM THE PENCIL’S POINT

Troubles are like babies; they grow larger by nursing. A girl never truly loves a man if she admits he has faults. A boy’s first pair, of trousers always fit if the pockets are large enough. Time can never heal a woman’s grief if it comes in the form of a wrinkle. Nature is the only artist capable of producing a perfect picture of health. The girl in the case knows a man’s in love long before he tumbles to the fact. Do a man a favor and he will consider you under everlasting obligation to him. Marriage isn’t a lottery. When a man draws a blank in a lottery that’s the end of it Only the judge at a prize baby show knows how to sympathize with a baseball umpire. The fool takes things as they come, but the wise guy lets a good many of them pass on. When a man tells a woman a joke he usually has to follow it up with an explanation. There is always a trying moment for a woman when her dress comes home from the modiste. It’s all well enough to believe in fate, providing you act according to your best judgment. By adding together the total assets of insurance companies as printed in their folders a man can form some Idea of the money there is in the world.