Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1918 — BOMBS [ARTICLE]

BOMBS

Maybe rubber collars are coming back to replace that kind of necks. There will be no vegetarians in the army-when the time comes to eat the kaiser up alive. It Is an enigma why common sense Is so called when it Is such an uncommon commodity. A fellow who is blind to reason and deaf to argument is never dumb in voicing his own opinions. There is little cause for patting yourself on the back because there is a little free alkali In your soap. There is a good deal of play on words nowadays but poor old “camouflage” is belnj* worked to death. It must be hard to convince the chap who has become the father of triplets that all good things come in threes. All work and no play may make Jack a dull boy, but turning the adage Inside out doesn’t make him a bright one. < When they“mug” a prisoner at the police station for their Bertillon records they probably tell him to watch for the little jail bird. Compared with the feminine side of his household, pa Is a regular war loafer. While ma and the girls are busy putting up fruit and things from morning till night, all pa has to put up Is his cash.—lndianapolis Star.