Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1902 — Definition of Optimist. [ARTICLE]

Definition of Optimist.

"Papa, what Is an optimist?” “Any man, my son, who has just succeeded in getting the best of his neighbor.”— Life. If you don’t get the biggest and' best it’s your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. I do not know of any way so sure of making others happy as of being so one’s self. —Sir Arthur Helps.