Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1919 — SPLINTERS [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS

No matter how hard a man runs for office he is perfectly satisfied to win in a walk. Reflection often reduces a man to humiliation, but it more often Increase es a woman’s vanity. A few persons would like to see themselves as others—see them, but most of us would rather have see us as we see ourselves. A man knows that a strop properly used makes a sharp razor, but the little shaver knows that when vigorously applied it makes a dull pain. One of the kaiser’s regrets probably is that he didn’t have a Hun U-boat on the job when Noah floated the ark so he could have killed all the birds and things with one torpedo.