Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1920 — FLYING CHAFF [ARTICLE]

FLYING CHAFF

If a man does wrong he thinks he Is doing right to keep it a secret. Any man is apt to feel girlish when be is making his maiden speech. Tell the boy to do what he pleases and he will do It without a murmur. Never worry about troubles today that you can put off until tomorrow. Even a garrulous woman will hold her jaw when she has the toothache. Possibly no one is contented, but pinny have learned not to make a fuss. Don't waste valuable time explaining why you failed. Get busy and make good.' ° We always feel sorry for a man who to taking care of a baby in a dry goods store.

Very little outside sympathy is wasted on a widow and a widower who marry. There’s a time for all things and the wise man prefers to tackle pne thing at a time. If a woman is willing to listen to a man if is because she has no more talk to unload. Usually the people you can help with money are those who won't let you know it. Many a man would never get married if some widow did not make up his mind for him. If one-half the world knew how the other half lived more divorce courts would be necessary. Borrowing trouble en masse is Joining a crusade to improve’jrour brother’s morals by law. Most of the movements to right the strongs of the people stop after the first paratie disperses. You can always ascertain a woman's correct age by asking some other woman, and then some. Sometimes a man is as badly frightened by an imaginary snake as a woman is by a real mouse. That expression, “caving around," probably started from the behavior of the eave man. There to no telling where a sinner will land when he begins to monkey vtith a fishing outfit on Sunday.