Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1903 — PICKINGS FROM FICTION. [ARTICLE]

PICKINGS FROM FICTION.

What la genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will. —“Tommy and Grizel.” There Is one consoling thing about being disillusioned—lt presupposes the illusion.—“A Social Departure.” Thar never was a quicker way to kill courage In a feller than to fight his fights for ’lm —“The Substitute.” Women have us back to the condition of primitive man or they shoot us higher than the topmost star.—“ The Egoist.” Tact is the exercis? of that wit whereby woman renders man unconscious of the chains in which her beauty binds him.—“A Summer In New York.” When a man has once treated a matter as a Joke, be it for ever so brief a period, be can never take it back again into the region of the highest tragedy, where alone danger lies.—“ Flower o’ the Corn.” Optimism in life is a good working hypothesis if by optimism we mean the open eyed faith that force exerted is never lost. Much that calls itself faith is only the blindness of self satisfaction.—“ The Philosophy of Despair.”