Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1901 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. Do you ever forget to wind your watch? The man who is expected to die young usually gets old. Probably no one ever ran a wedding to suit the rest of the town. How do you like to pay “two cents due” on a letter for your wife? We cannot understand what a Negro woman wants to wear a veil for? If a boy wears a loud pair of pants, the boys call them “Nigger pants.” Nearly everybody has tried or would like to try the restaurant business. Playing hookey at school is inherited the same as black eyes or curly hair. It is great sport to get two practical jokers to playing jokes on each other. People who talk only about how to make money are likely to be laughed at. Biting one’s finger nails is harder to quit, apparently, than drinking whiskey. An honest man may be indicated as one who takes a bribe and keeps still about it. Some men never amount to anything because they are always “prospecting.” No matter how old he is or how big a mustache he wears, he is called a “train boy.” An old man calls it “out out” when a fellow’s girl is taken away by some other fellow. It is a very common sight nowadays to see a boy wearing glasses and his father be without. No one likes to see a stanger cut too big a swath in a new town. He never lasts well if he does. As much as people laugh at dirty people, it is a wonder that there are any dirty people at all. -%z%. It is not safe to buy a man, for if he is mean enough to sell out, he is also mean enough to tell it. -%Z%, A man rarely ever gets too old to talk silly about an old love affair that he imagines he once had. The youngest member of a family always gets the reputation of being spoiled and not much account.