Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — Resolved That [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Resolved That

Optimism turns up the corners of my mouth, and incidentally the other fellow's. But I won’t carry It to a Nirvana state of Inactivity. The world! must move, I know. A smile will carry me more successfully through the coming year than a frown. Besides, it's more becoming. My husband is not a hero to the other woman. She thinks her partner: is Just as good. I will give her a chance to sound his praises. I will not shake the other girl’s false hair in the man’s face. If it is a good match, he will not believe me; and if it is an obvious substitu-

tion, he will think that I am catty. In either case I lose. “Truth is a moon reflected in many waters,’’ says an eastern proverb. I will remember that when questioning my erring child. “Union and liberty, one and inseparable, now and forever,” is a pretty good motto for married ones. The trouble is that liberty drifts into insignificance, and union ends at the divorce courts. I will be wise. Despite the fact that love makes the world go round, he cannot pay the gas bill or the rent. I wllWlook out for the bread and cheese and love will provide the kisses.