Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Our Man About Town Discusses Sundry and Other Matters [ARTICLE]

Our Man About Town Discusses Sundry and Other Matters

Starch has gone up, owing to the advance in the price of corn. And now girls, don’t be growling at the laundries if your garments are a-little limy.. •** A Chicago man awoke in the night; and in the moonlight that streamed in through the window saw a monster with five horns on the foot of his bed. He pulled a pistol from beneath his pillow and fired at it, and his wife uttered a piercing ' scream. The physician who was hastily called said she would probably lose one of her toes but he hoped to be able to save it. > » * - The Wabash Times said this: Sam Jones said,that with the girls cutting down Cheir corsage for the ball room and cutting up their dress skirts for the bicycle, he was getting uneasy because he failed to see where they were going to stop. If Sam was the modest gentleman any reputable minister of the gospel m.ght be expected to be, he would turn his head the other way and not try to see. however, ministers are sometimes those who are last to turn their heads on such occasions. » * * , « Tnis is the season when fora month a man with his family leaves his happy home for a mosquito haunted summer resort, and imagines he is getting a much needed rest. If of rugged constitution, he may be able to resume his usual work for a ,week or two after his return home. * * Rensselaer furnishes a score of men who are big and stout and perfectly able to work but will not. They per sist in staying at home and living with the “old man and old woman’’ ss they term them. They are usually the first ones at dinner or supper and the last ones to breakfast for they lie in bed until the morning chores are done. The same set of boys, or rather young men, make their weekly calls upon the old “man” for their laundry, cigarette and tobacco bills. They make the “old man” w very friendly call when they want a new suit of clothes, shirtwaist or new red necktie. They spend the greater part of their time in front of business houses in the shade, making remarks about the ladies that chance to pass by. If some of these young men’s parents were to die and incidentally disinherit the Hyoung hopefuls” they would be compel'ed to join the hobo gang or starve, for they are too lazy to work. t;- qj ■»

There are persons in this city and in all cities who pass from man to man and woman to woman, repeating evil words which are deadly in their, results and yet you cannot evaporate the truth from the falsehood and point out the slander that lurks therein. Perhaps words were not used, for words are not necessary to the destruction of some brother or sister. A drop of the lip, xn arched brow, the shrug of a shoulder, even an emphatic silence may do deadl y work. You congratulate yourself that the days of persecution are over and so they are as to crucifictions of the flesh. You never burned a human being alive; you never rejoiced over the death shriek of some one -who was suffering the quick or slow process of physical, death’. But did you ever rob some man or woman of friends, or take away from tnem their good name or gleefully repeat some miserable gossip or purposely misrepresent their acts or words? We live on that by which we feed. If we live on gossip we become slanderers. If we feed on evil speaking we become vicious.