Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1919 — CLAMS [ARTICLE]

CLAMS

sometimes hide pearls. Human clams sometimes hide the rarest friendships, but you have to crack their hides to find them. There’s all kinds of human clams. A man may be silent because he’s stupid or conscious of mental limitations, or just the natural grouch, but generally he’s just too smart to be gassy. No matter how he got that way, there’s a way to open up a clam. Hit,- him. Uffe a “scatter load” of flattery or a shot of mud. Flattery is safest, but they always wait for more. Mud brings action, and wfiaF the cat had. He may want to fight, but he will 'sure talk. One of these clams told me the “Franklin was ugly,” and besides he wanted a “seven-passenger.” I grabbed for my mud. “You wasn’t so particular about a wife. Why a seven-seater? You could get all your friends in a speedster.” Be-lieve-me he opened up. Finally I got .him to see that quality in a car was like quality in a woman. It’s something that can t be seen. Now he owns a Franklin and he can’t keep still. As a class, Franklin owners are affable. Come forward while we sing, “Sign up today.” HUGH KIRK.