Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — Humor and Philosophy [ARTICLE]

Humor and Philosophy

By DVNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. brag to your wife about the way you yarned to a fellow you met the other day. She might wonder about some of the stories you have been telling her. Some mothers believe their boys tell them everything they know, which just shows how guileless women are. A perfectly good crop of frostbite and chilblains will soon be on hand to satisfy the most exacting. A relapse into, former indifferent conduct follows the holidays ip all juvenile lines. We may not know what is what, but we are apt to know what it isn’t There may l>e room at the top, but the going is apt to l>e rough. Success is merely the difference between the hard workers and the hard shirkers. There may be nothing nevy under the sun. but there are lots of things just as good. And the worst of it .is that the people who have the least time for it have the most trouble. The cat can alwayv come back. In this it differs from some people.

Getting Ambidextrous. “He is the most contrary man I ever saw.” “As for instance.” “He always uses his left haqd to be different from right handed people.” “And when he meets left handed people?” . i ■ “Oh, then he uses his right hand.”

Don’t forget the big sale of A. B. Lowman’s Feb. 13 on the Goepp farm. 100 head of good live stock.