Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — IF ONE LIVED LONG ENOUGH. [ARTICLE]

IF ONE LIVED LONG ENOUGH.

If you and I could live 200 years or so, Perhaps our cherished Ills we'd manage to outgrow; We might cultivate the while ' An ingratiating smile, For a scowl would surely bore us, With two centuries before us. « ► Perhaps we'd be less critical if quite as- ' sured that We * Could still- cavort around here in two-thousand-nine A. D. We might try to make amends To our irritating friends; \ We could treat their faults with levity, When we thought of our longevity. When we’d grown philosophical and bald and free from care, We’d have of sorrow even less than we should have of hair. So we all could do our parts To give peace to greiving hearts, As things are suppose we try it— We'd be sure to profit by it. 'Tis said the ‘'compound int’rest on a single dollar would, In 20 generations put us millions to the good! I should like to start out now. With a dollar, anyhow; But I don’t know hpw to collar That first, fundamental dollar. —Chicago News.