Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — Humor and Philosophy [ARTICLE]

Humor and Philosophy

By DVNCAN M. SMITM

PERT PARAGRAPHS. yyHEN things begin to come our way a little we feel that the reward of patient merit is a sign that the world is really growing better. Sometimes a good conscience is merely one that has not been out of cotton packing. It is a good thing to be approachable. Opportunity isn’t so likely to shy at you. * The things that are going to happen are going to, so what’s the use of worrying about them? When a man goes wrong all his relatives say he took after the other side of the bouse, as they always knew. It is a good thing to know what you want almost as good as to have what you want. Some men who are out of work seem to have the idea that jobs go round searching for indigent people. It isn’t hard to fool a man if his own excellence is the theme. The people who are always trying to be pleasant sometimes succeed in being exceedingly tiresome. The thoughts that an empty beaded man thinks are pretty certain to be secondhand. Variety may be the spice of life, but when the variety is the smarting kind we feel like saying. “No mustard, thank you.”

Safe Occupation. “I care not who makes the laws if I can write the songs.” —“Go ahead and write them. Who la stopping you ?” “But who would sing them?” “Nobody. 1 hope. That is why lam so willing you should write them.” | Awful Possibility. “My boy seems to be a natural orator.” “You shouldn't encourage him.” “Why not?” “If he keeps it up be may talk himself into congress.”