Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1902 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow Into the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. A “Professor” with nothing to profess looks disconsolate. A man may shave off his beard because he does not want it, but it always seems to us a man would feel of more importance if he could raise a beard. We often wonder how a real fit man takes a bath in an ordinary bath tub. We wish almost every day that we could do something chat would be worth while. A boy who has nothing else to shave usually gets his neck shaved. We wonder why our nose always itches just as the barber commences to shave us.

We discover that people have no use for old-fashioned pantries, anymore. Don’t say you are too independentFolks will only laugh at you We wonder which a preacher prefers, the commendation of a man or the money he really aught to pay. No woman ever learned to set the chairs back out of the way for the night. - ' Nothing looks as pitiful as a cheap would-be sport. How do you like to open a screen door in real cold weather?

Everybody has an idea that he can “work” people. Some people, if they cannot lie about anything else, will lie about the weather. The same jokes are got off on the weather every time the weather changes. , Old men say that the weather used to be colder. People have their picture taken with a book in their hands, and the same frequently turns out to be an album or some sort of a picture book. Queer, but a man who minds strictly his own business, is frequently unpopular. - Very few of us can do anything that is really worth while. Most of the time when we can’t sleep because of something on our minds it turns out to be coffee. As long as a man brags on his preacher he is not so bad even if he doesn’t help pay him. ■v-%.

In view of the fact that honesty pays best and that nobody wants to be swindled, it is queer that everybody is proud of cheating some one else. How do you like to see field glasses used for opera glasses? People so seldom do the right thing that they feel as if they ought to be congratulated every time they do. Some days everything seems to go wrong, but it is compensated by other days when everything seems to go right. . Hardly any man ever goes to college like he does anything else. He always has “to struggle” to get a college education. Some folks work in a first class hotel and yet never eat a meal there. We so seldom do sensible things that we want to shouty whenever we do.