Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1920 — A MAN IS LIKE A FISH. [ARTICLE]

A MAN IS LIKE A FISH.

He's safe as lei* as he keeps his month' Mutt Silence eqaeeals the ignorance that talk reveals. A man should know more than he tells, else why baa he two spas, two ears and but one mouth. . God gave fools a mouth but that was to smoke with. . • That’s why we prefer to eat and smoke at a banquet and let the wiee men do the talking. Pretty good, too—weren’t they? . „ I wouldn’t miss another football banquet if I knew they were going to call on me. Have one man crazy for one of those sedans. Cali us before six o’clock if you want the other. They must both go or neither. THOMPSON A KIRK. -Peter Mak and Theodore Pwtn of near DeMotte were in Rensselaer Friday. Mrs. John Murfitt of near Mt. Ayr, went to Chicago Friday to visit relatives.