Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Cheer up or stay down. Most , any man knows how to tell a womans age. but few have the nerve to do it. Extra precautions should be taken while fishing. You might hook a submarine. Some women have very sweet dispositions, but their next door neighbors seldom know it. A silent man makes an excellent mate for a talkative woman. There is less chance for a family jar. Austria insists that America is “cutting no ice” in this war. Of course not; we’re not there yet. Some men are so simple they believe everything anyone tells them and no one believes what they say. Some people are so crooked they would put off dying just for a chance to cheat the undertaker out of a job. When a man of nerve marries a woman with a 16t of nerves their offspring ought to be a bundle of nerves. The great British navy is somewhere, doing something, but the Lord only knows where it is or what it is doing. Any one can wave a flag and whoop-hooray, but it takes nerve and grit to go out and get shot into mincemeat for it. Up to date this country is about the only one upon which Germany has not laid the responsibility for the war. Our turn will come next. About the meanest fellow w r e know of is the one who sleeps all through the sermon and then refuses to see the collection plate as it passes by.