Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1911 — Humor and Philosophy [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Humor and Philosophy

By DUNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. H br friends all think that a mother ought to trounce her young hopafuls four times a day, but If she happens to be ouly their stepmother and spanks them occasionally they want to call the police. When you see one man avoiding another it Is a safe bet tbat some old hen has hatched. Many an act tbat has started as * joke has finished with the undertaker.

“My father can lick your father.” “Can be. though?" “You bet he can!” “Well, my mother can outtalk your mother.” Common Mistake. Mary Anderson Is going to write a book about the American man. telling him, among other things. Just where he gets off. Mary has made the mistake Into which travelers fall. Seeing a few hundred masculine forms in white shirts and topped with high hats, she jnm[)s at the conclusion that this is the American man. No guess could he wider of the mark. Without census figures we make bold to say that the American man as a whole doesn’t possess that gawky harness known as a dress suit. Neither does he make his main diet on cane heads. A fellow in brown overalls handling a crane In a.steel mill or a one gallused person guiding a team of mules through a corn row comes nearer being;, the type. We are sorry for Mary, but her man, being purely ornamental, doesn’t count.