Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1918 — Appearances Deceptive. [ARTICLE]

Appearances Deceptive.

The war has turned the habits of round-the-towners so topsy turvy that It has become a difficult problem to tell from a glance whether a man is a church member or a disciple of John Barleycorn these dpys. Two “pieaged men were riding on a Fifth avenue bus recently. Each had. all the surface indications of being merry old souls, who tarried at the dinner table and looked upon the wine while it was fizzing. Both had red faces and pronouncedly “bay windows." And what do you suppose they were talking about? Naturally, one would say they were discussing the attitude of congress for trying to make the country bone-dry. But nothing of the kind. They were talking about Bibles, the number they had distributed to sailors and soldiers and the price of them. And both chuckled because the war had not affected the price of the good book, which could be bought as low as 15 cents. When you hear convey sAtlon of that nature in this town, it begins to look as if the hour had struck.—-New York Sun.