Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — Shattered Idol. [ARTICLE]

Shattered Idol.

“One of the greatest sorrows of famous persons like my B elfrecently observed a well known novelist, “Ib the realization that comes to us sooner or later that it is impossible to live up to the ideal opinions that the people whom we meet in the ordinary affairs of life have formed of us. Not long since I had occasion to remark to a waiter in a case where I sometimes dine:— Waiter, this beef, is extremely tough.’ “Whereupon the servitor looked at me with a tad expression and sighed deeply. ‘“May I inquire,’ said I, ‘why you sigh in that fashion?’ Ah, sir,’ said the waiter, 'I took you for a man who always said original things, and here you come and say just the same thing that all the rest of them do.’ ”