Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — WHAT IS A POPULAR MAN. [ARTICLE]

WHAT IS A POPULAR MAN.

A popular man is one who is always ready to take a drink, but doesn’t get drunk. A popular man is one who will listen to a tale of woe from a woman 45 years of age, not mind her crying, pat her on the shoulder, and advise her to be “a good girl.” A popular man is one who sends your baby a birthday present, who remembers you when he has got a couple of theatre tickets he don’t want, and who speaks to you no matter how shabby you look, or who he may be with. A popular man is the concentrated essence of sympathy. He has a smile for everybody’s joy, and words of condolence for everybody’s sorrow. Feel it? It doesn’t matter whether he feels it or not, my friend, it’s manners make the man and, more than any other, the popular man. -- A pocket match-safe free to smokers of “Tansiil’s Punch” sc. Cigar,