Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. Everybody is bored by somebody. No profession is as much abused as the lawyers. How the time drags when one has nothing to do. The habit of giving declamations runs in families. A thin man with a great long beard looks very funny. Laziness is a family trait, the same as red hair or cross eyes. The only way to get on in the world .is by being “a good fellow.” A girl’s most inveterate critic is her brother just older than she is. A baby always retains its interest in anything that it ought not to have. It is a queer thing how many people there are who like to go to funerals. Lots of people get up early in the morning because they have nothing else to do. •'w -w. Lots of fellows play three-ball billiards who couldn’t play if they had a table full. The lonesomest time in all the week is Sunday evening from about five p. m. till eight. “A friend” is a good way to get out of it when you do not wish to give the person’s name. When a baby is squalling the roof off is when its mama does not want the train to stop. It is natural for a woman to forget to bring her overshoes in out of the weather when done using them. One advantage in losing a night’s sleep is that a fellow feels so good when he gets to bed the next night. We have never yet seen anyone start up in business that he did not say he was doing better than he expected. There are no children whose parents do not say they are smart enough to send to school long before they were old enough. One thing is pleasant about the month of March, nobody can tell what kind of weather there will be five minutes ahead. A woman who is not in the habit of washing dishes holds out the dish pan very conspicuously when she goes to empty the, dish water. When a man says he does not want to vote a tax on other people, we want to know more about it before we would bet any money on him. Besides learning how to roll the cigarette pafcer, a cigarette fiend has to learn how to pull the string of the tobacco pouch with his teeth. Just because you see a light in the house early in the morning is not a sign that people are getting up early. There may be a baby in the house. Every man who watches every footstep as he walks along is not necessarily trying to keek in the straight and narrow way. He may be hunting “snipes.”