Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1918 — BELLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BELLS

A Complete Thought. “I’ll make a bet that you don’t know all the words of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ ” “Don’t need to know ’em all. When I have said, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner, oh, long may it wave; I don’t feel that any more words are absolutely necessary.” The Origin of Species, Village Pedagogue —Darwin says we’re descended from monkeys. His Auditor —Well, what about it? My grandfather may ’ave bin a gorilla, but it doesn’t worry me. Voice from the fireside —P’raps not, byt it must nave worried yer grandmother.—London Opinion. The Way It Looked. Elizabeth was not accustomed to the saying of grace. One night she ■went for supper to the next door neighbors. “Daddy,”’ said she the next morning, “what was that Mr. Pumpton read off his plate?” Hardly. Mrs. Chatta—l make it a rule never to ask another to do what I would not do myself. Mrs. Quibble —But you would not go to the door yourself and tell a caller you were not at home. —London Answers.