Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1917 — CONTRARY SORT OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

CONTRARY SORT OF WORLD

Most Powerful Sto_ries of Love and Domestic Bliss, Written by the Unmarried. The more popular books for children have been written by the childless, and some of the most powerful stories of love and domestic bliss or misery have been written by unmarried women and men. And then, as you probably know, almost everyone thinks he knows more about other branches of business than the one in which he is engagedThe average man can recall the time when he thought the other fellow’s job was much easier than his, and was haunted more or less with the notion that if he had taken up almost anything but what he had he would have made a great success of it. It is said there has never, or hardly ever, been a great comedian who didn't believe, or think he believed, that ids forte was tragedy; and as if not to be outdone, the successful tragedian never ceases to curse the luck that prevented him from being a comedian. You may hot think this is a contrary sort of world, but there are a lot of people who do.