Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — Words of a Wise Woman. [ARTICLE]

Words of a Wise Woman.

The bald-headed man usually has hair on the brain. All is fair in love—with the possible exception of brunettes. The self-unmade man nearly always tries to lay the blame on others.

A man’s only chance to get a-head in this world is to be born with one. Intuition is what a man claims to have every time he makes a good guess. Love may be blind, but it can smell the cloves on a man’s breath just the same. When a married man gets his hair cut his wife loses her strongest hold on him. The recording angel never credits a man with what his tombstone says in his favor. An up-to-date young-man never waits for an invitation when alone with a kissable girl. The average man puts in so much time preaching that he has no time left to practice. No man has ever been blamed for being a gentleman, but many, have been falsely accused of it. The average man feels that he is only getting what he deserves when he draws a salary for doing nothing. The desire of some men to wobble around in a big place rather than fill a small one accounts for a good many failures. Possibly all men are endowed with common sense, but the majority of them seem to value it too highly to place it on exhibition.