Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1908 — Humor and Philosophy [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Humor and Philosophy

By DUNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. We sigh dolorously over our condition in life, but the chances are that if we were offered marked improvement we would stand and haggle over terms.

Children are the dearest things in the wqfld and sources of unmixed delight—unless they happen to belong to somebody else. There aren't many people that we know of who are overcome by their inability to stund or withstand the mad rush of prosperity. Being dead sure they are right, no matter how many times they may change their minds, is the great charm of some enthusiastic people. Every time error gets it in the neck it starts out to find a new method of cure and to promote a new health fad. We can't realize that we actually did suffer from a sunburnt summer when we see the great drifts of snow that are clamoring to be lifted out of the path. No other man ever likes to be convinced that you are right, and he only says he does to cover up his chagrin. Probably the most interesting people in the world are those who find our own little everyday affairs interesting. With some of us Just as soon as we see what we want we don’t want It and are miserable because we can’t want something that we can’t have.

With every community having its traction problem, ttiere must be a lot •f people In distraction. And among the good things mads Is 1906 there’s the potato.