Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — OBSERVATIONS. [ARTICLE]

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ot Whieh Are Here Ob.ir,t M Thaa Other*. However slowly you climb the ladder of fame, you usually arrive at the top about the time your breath fives out, and Charon of the Styx awaits you for your last fateful voyage. Necessity knows no law, but there are many young lawyers— aye, and some old ones, too—who know necessity. One man Is probably as good as another, according to Democratic and Republican principles, but be gets Into trouble by claiming to be considerably better. Half a “loaf (in Its lounging sense) Is better than no vacation at all. When a man makes a confidant of a woman, he Is doleful; when woman confides In a man, she is desperate. If women would only talk to their husbands as they talk about them behind their backs to other women, the quantity of self complacency In the world would be vastly increased. The heartless woman who Is foiled in her attempt to fool a man is apt for the rest of her life to call the aternar sex “hypocrites and sham a” Many old looking young women get that way worrying because they were no longer young. The wise man studies womankind as he does weather predictions, and should not prophesy until the day after. The average man’s idea of a “jolly time” is a little too much of everything; a woman’s idea la something left over for the next day. That charity which invariably begins at home very frequently finds so much to do that it never gets any further.—Ally Sloper.