Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1908 — PERT PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Being sncceßsfnl is quite often a matter of being busy, belligerent and bluff. Keep on good terms with your neighbor. He might want you to go his security at tbe bank, and it would embarrass him so to ask you if you were on ill terms. It all depends upon where you put the modifier. A miser is one who loves money a great deal, bat most of us would love a great deal of money. —• . A woman does love to have her husband shine in society, but she will Insist that be scintillate In her owu peculiar way. There are people who aren’t content with being miserable for themselves, but want to assist others to he miserable also.

If he loses out at poker, what difference does that make to anybody but himself? If be is cross the next day because he has a headache from bad air and other things—mostly other things—he guesses it is nobody’s business but bis own. Debt doesn’t look half' so gay and festive when it is encompassing yon as it does when it Is inviting you from a distance. Being lazy Is just about all that can be expected of a genuinely lazy man. Soon as we have a chance to forget about football and baseball we have to begin to worry about those Christmas presents.