Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — POINTED PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Constant companionship wears on friendship. When a woman argues with a man she is outspoken and he is out-talked. Sometimes a man’s happiness depends on the size of the bottle he has just emptied. That man who says he never makes a mistake probably doesn’t know one when he sees it. An appropriate present for a girl Is anything she can wear; for a boy, anything he can eat. A boy’s idea of true happiness is to be able to produce the biggest noise on the Fourth of July. A man wastes more time during six months of courtship than he does all the rest of his life waiting for street cars. It is reported that the cost of keeping an elephant Is about $1.50 a day. The cost of seeing the’ elephant sometimes runs up into thousands. — Chicago News.