Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — “Follow Your Leader.” [ARTICLE]

“Follow Your Leader.”

Average then and women are very like sheep in some ways; they follow a leader blindly. It Is easy to prove this. When you are passing a store before which no one is standing, stop and look Intently at whatever Is there. In a moment some one wfll be beside you, not because he is Interested in something there, but because he is curious to know what you find tliat is so absorbing. In five minutes the walk will be obstructed by the number of persons who have followed your lead, most of whom do not know what they stopped to see. It is said, by the .way, that looking In shop windows has become a business, and men and women are hired to stand before an attractive window and thus to draw attention to it. That may be true or not, but it is certain that no one person can stop to look at anything without others joining him.