Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot un urrow Into the ulr, It fell to the enrth; 1 know not where. - -Longfellow. In a dry time you cannot tempt it to rain. man thinks he does an honest dafy’s work. Red hair must be awfully hot this kind of weather. A good many men get rich only by marrying rich wives. Almost anybody wants to be consid* ered a good neighbor. Yon cannot tell the size of the town by the whistle on the locomotive. Some people are good friends till they owe you, and then they get mad. We do not know why it is that folks who get up early are always so noisy. t The scissors and paper knife are two household articles that are always lost. Nothing is much more humiliating to a girl than to be taken for an older sister. Preachers often agree to preach short sermons, but we never heard one yet. Photographs of a man with a pen in his hand are out of date. It ought to be a typewriter. As much as men are guyed for singing, it is a wonder that any man learns to sing at all. -W'WYou do not know how many mistakes you make till you have no eraser on your pencil. Are you in the habit of placing your watch under your pillow at night, and if you do, why do you? Tell a woman her baby looks like her and she says, “What a pity!” But we do not think she means it. People would be better off without a weather report because they would not worry ahead about what is to come. People so worthless that they are up to any meanness still make a pretence of not doing some things on Sunday. We observe that the man with the most diplomas hanging up in his office does not as a consequence have the biggest practice. Whenever you see a patent right man get off the train, you want to “sic” the dogs right on him and run him out of town.

When people have no kids of their own/ they borrow their neighbors’, which shows they ought to have some of their own. A man who works by the week and makes a pretense of going to a summer resort on a vacation is laughed at whether he deserves it or not. A man from a country town enjoys nothing quite so well as to come home and get oft the sleeper where everybody can see in what style he travels. About as useless advice as any we can think of is to be told by people who have been there what is the best way to do when going on the same trip.