Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

We suggest, in passing, that Chicago’s Big Bill spell it with a capital P. In many instances no doubt, the exemption boards have lived up to their names. Crowned heads are a world nuisance, but they often come in handy in a card game. Some men are like a bass drum; they are good for nothing but to m'ake a big noise. Every man tells the truth once in a while, but to some of them it is an awful shock. No, we may not be killing many of the enemy, but we are killing a deal of a lot of time. Love your neighbor as yourself, and then you won’t Jiave to lie about him when he is dead. There are two things that will make a blind" mah see. One is a well-shaped leg, and the other ,is another one.

There are entirely too many traitors in this country—and, likewise, too many lamp posts and tree limbs not in use. S, Our sympathies, however, go out to the title seeking American heiresses during this war. The suspense of waiting must be dreadful. We can’t, for the life of us, understand why pretty women insist on flirting with homely men when there ara so ifiany of us handsome ones floating around. An paragrapher asserts that the early milkman catches a glimpse of a woman's true complexion. All of. us . married ducks get that—but, Lord, we dassent tell. A fellow dropped into the office one day this week and told the biggest lie of the season. Said he knew of tw T o women who dear**' loved each other and never had a Word of criticism to offer. Then, too, we know of a man who never has an unkind word to say of any person living. He’s dead.