Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1901 — Optimism. [ARTICLE]

Optimism.

When the optimist was dispossessed and thrown, along with his household impedimenta, into the cold street, he chuckled furiously. “Why do you laugh, my friend?” Inquired a passerby. “Because I have just now been emancipated from toil” replied the optimist “For years my life has been one long struggle to keep the wolf from the door. But now that I have been deprived of the door I no longer am compelled to toll. Sweet, indeed, are the uses of adversity.” Then the optimist walked off, whistling gayly, into the sunshine.—New York Evening Sun.