Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow Into the air. It tell to the earth; I know not where. —LoiiKfellow. One good “jolly” will last a man a lifetime. Why don’t you let folks advise you ? They enjoy it. Nobody has any usf for kid parties, yet all have them. Half the world is engaged in “jollying” the other half. After all, a loafer has a snap. He has nothing at stake. We cannot sao why everybody denies going to a circus. Did you ever notice one bald headed man whisper to another. Every town that has had a fire has a first class fire department. When a man says “doggone it,” he really means a good deal worse. Every married man secretly wishes he could do the cooking for a while. Riding in a rig called a “trap” in a country town makes everybody “rubber”. Ts a man dyes his mustache, he oughtn’t to let his beard grow enough to show. A circus has no chance in a country town. Everybody thinks it did not all come. A man can always excite comment by carrying a millinery package along the street. i _ One can get any amount of advice about keeping “baoh” from those who never try it. When a man Bays “I never say anything.” The chances are he tells altogether too muoh. When a boy gets big enough to get onto a train to Bee his girl off, he is felling rather old. Everybody thinks he sees lots of people every night out buggy riding, who can’t afford It. People say, “we would not be caught dead” at a place, but they would be easy to catch. Put a man with a plug hat in a country town and everybody will knoW him in a short time. Some men think It 1b a virtue worth remarking that they do not ask men their religion or politics. If anything makes a man mad, it is to have the barber go to dinner just as he goes to get into the chair. If a man takes a drink, His dead sure that someone will come along who stands real close to talk to him. Every married man, when he hears a bachelor talk abont doing his own house work, thinks he would like to “bach.” Advertised Letters. Win. J.. Moore, (i); Cora A. Bray, Mrs. Hannah Jones, Oarl Mattochs, Mrs. N. J. Rainey, Mrs. Addle E. Smith, Joseph O. Sheeley, Gust Sluder, H. Sruedman,