Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1920 — BRIEF ITEMS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF ITEMS

The pessimist growls tt the sunshine because it casts shadows. A man should pardon everybody’s fault rather than his own. —Cato. If a man ever feels religion it’s when he finds himself in a tight place. Nobody minds the had cooking when ft is done over a fire in the woods. All the troubles of this world are born with wings.—Mary E. Wilkins. Shadows of the family tree account for a good many shady reputations. A man always says appearances are deceitful when they are against him. No one is useless In this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. There Is little consolation In being the first to discover your own mistake. Man proposes and later on he wonders how he came to make eoch a fool of himself. * A laugh costs too much if it is bought at the expense of propriety.— Qulntilllan.

Melons do not grow from nest eggs and a bank account can sprout only from thrift. Never Judge a man’s worth by what a woman values him at In a breach of promise suit. « Keep your face toward the sun, even though for the time being it is under a cloud. Few congregations are willing to pay a pastor for telling them the truth about themselves. — Truth Is stranger than fiction —and lots of people are averse to associating with strangers. Some of the other ancients were pretty swift, but Samson was the first to get a gate on him. Buying things you don’t need is a straight, downhill road to needing things you can't buy. Who betrays me once wrongs me; who betrays me twice serves me just right—German proverb. A big town wouldn't be so very wicked if it didn’t gather in the sinners from the little ones. — « Probably the happiest man in the world is the one who has just purchased his first wedding ring. It profit a man much If his servanWieeps all the commandments Intact and breaks all his crockery.