Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1916 — BONEHEAD PLAYS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BONEHEAD PLAYS.

By Walt Mason.

We might, as grave ward we advance, know naught bn: golden days, if we did not, a' every chance; -indulge in bonehe.l plays. For nearly all the ills, we know, and all the pains and aches, originated long ago, in our own foolish breaks. Man Minn he draws his pay, lie blows it in lor long cold beers, and that's a ho neb cad play. The schoolboy, mother - little pet, upon a summer day, learns to smoke a cigarette, and that's a bonehead play. The damsel learns lo paint and. sing, to dance the night away, but sidesteps every useful thing, and that's a honehead play. All carelessly man goes in debt for grub and clothes and hay; and knows, Vvhen lawyers make his sweat, it was a bonehead play. To buy a gaudy choo-efipo ear;, man signs his home away, and say,, some day, with breaking heart. “It was a bonehead play.” This life of ours, should be sunshine, our hearts should all be glad; but we pull boneheads 'all the time, and that’s why life is sad.