Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — POINTED PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Our troubles are never so black as our fancy paints them. When it comes to taking a drink any canine is a lap dog. It takes a wise man to pick out a fool whose money he can spend. About the only difference between matrimony and alimony is a divorce. Thought is company only for those Who are capable of entertaining it. Wisdom is one of the things that don’t come to the man who sits down and waits. Baby talk is the kind of talk mothers use in repeating things the baby doesn’t say. The injuries you do others and those others do you are never weighed in the same balance. The average man imagines good judgment is synonymous with his own personal opinion. When a man’s hair is an ashy gray it may be owing to the fact that he had money to burn and burned it. At the age of 21 a man thinks he knows more than he ever will know at any subsequent period of his existence. There is a crying need for more of the kind of charity that doesn’t have to go a thousand miles from home to begin work.—Chicago Daily News.