Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 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 increases a woman’s vanity. A few-persons would like to see themselves as others see them, but most of us would rather have others 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 have a Hun U-boat on the job when Noah floated the ark so he could have killed ail the birds and things with one torpedo.