Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — Page 11 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Hard to Pick. "Named the baby yet?” “No; we just can’t decide on what to call him.” “What’s in a name, anyway?” “What's in a name? Say, that kid has three rich uncles.” The Root of Evil. “Why do people lie?” “Lie?’ “Yes, lie.” “Oh, for various reasons, but mostly because they need tbe money.” Knew They Were • Cinch. “Aren’t you afraid of burglars, Ethel?” "Why should 1 be? Burglars are all men.” As Usual. She ran a beauty parlor, Turned out good looks for pelf, But often visitor* would say, "Physician, heal thyself.” PERT PARAGRAPHS. We are ready to forgive the most heinous offense when our rights are in nowise touched by them. It sounds easy when we hear people say that a child should be trained in orderliness, but before one gets half through with tbe job one's own nervous system is in an alarming state of disorder. *rvsc»r I*7 I 2 Don’t tell your ailments to your friends unless you want them to get back at you by Insisting upon your accepting their remedies. Finding fault with your neighbors sometimes is only your sly way of boasting of your own qualities. It la a good deal easier to raise a disturbance than It is to raise tbe revenue to defray tbe costs. It Is the experience of moat of us that we go blithely along our way imposing day after day upon tbe rights ol[ our fellow creatures and trampling on their feelings until some day for some trifle light as air they turn and rend us. we wonder what makes them so narrow and irrational anyway. Some minds appear to be irrational because they are quick and others entirely logical because they are stupid. It doesn’t take any of us long to tell all we know. It is what we thing we know that takes time, energy and hot air.