Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

1 shot an arrow into the air. It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. Everybody “pots on” more or less. A henpecked husband looks happier than anybody else. A henpecked husband is always the last to find it out. It must feel bully to be as conceited as some folks are. People in small towns turn opera glasses on a stranger. An empty match box is worse in the dark than none at all. Alter all, we suspect that half the time a telephone is a nuisance. You can tell something of a man by the way he sharpens a lead pencil. After a man has a babe of his own, he begins to notice other people’s. You can tell something of a show company by the fur coats the actresses wear.

Barbers keep track only of the people who get work done at their shops. A henpecked husband thinks more of his wife than any other man does of his wife. We still cannot see what good it does a man writing to stick out his tongue. Whenever you are dead sure of anything, you are sure to find it come up missing. Nowadays when a man becomes famous, it wasTound he was poor in his classes. Every man is called down by his wife occasionally for carrying dirty handkerchiefs. A match box whose location is changed every time you want it, is worse than none. A pianist’s ambition is to get to playing pieces in which her hands have to be crossed. There is a man in this town who hardly ever goes after his morning papers till afternoon. A man never gets real busy so he can hardly leave his work, that the teleohone does not ring. Flowers blooming in a house are always in a front window, whether it is a south window or not. It is the general opinion that if you do a man a good turn he will stab you in the back the first, chance he gets. Bankers say when money is scarce, everybody wants to borrow, and when it is plentiful, nobody wants any. We heard of a man the other day who got swindled ar.d lost quite a sum of money on a patent clothes line. Just as a girl begins to think she is grown, she discovers that hardly anybody pronounces the simplest words correctly.