Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1902 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow into the air, ’ It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. No man ever gets too old to enjoy bouncing a rubber ball. Men are like dogs, they will crowd around a fight between two men as closely as dogs crowd around a dog fight. When a man goes to a strange town carrying a suit in a dressing suit case, we begin to have some doubts about him. Don’t tell a man ‘‘You are getting gray.” No man likes to be told. Whenever the women folks have a party you will see nothing of the men till it comes to going around to correct a few invitations that were missent. Sotne days we go out on the street and meet nobody but real trifling folks. To prove that loafers are a nuisance we call attention* to the fact that no business house that allows loafers ever prospers. We can forgive anybody who works, almost anything. Nothing is as hard to overcome as to get the reputation that you are a thinker. We believe the habit of telling stories and going into details, runs in families. Better not get anything new at Christmas time or everybody will ask, “Christmas gift ?” Nothing ever comes that we really want when we watch the mails too closely. Our idea of people who have a good time is a crowd of young folks going to a neighboring town to give an amateur show. When a man tells us that he would rather do us a favor than anybody he knows and yet refuses to do it, we refuse to be jollied and know he is lying. Even a woman likes a table better if there are a lot of things to eat and not so many decorations. Some days a man can do nothing but just listen. ' There is one thing we all agree on and that is, we have to do a great many things we do not like. A chafing dish never bothers except when there is company.