Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1902 — Letter to Rev. C. D. Royse. [ARTICLE]

Letter to Rev. C. D. Royse.

Rensselaer, Ind Dear Sir; In making pastoral visits, of course, you do not consider your pleasure or comfort or ease; you go where your people live. But you have two aetaof feelings in going about can’t help it-we all have. But you especially have; for a part of your business is sympathy. Well-kept lawns and well-tilled fields, nice homes and nice people, are oheerful to you, as they are to everyone. Tumble-down Iralldings, poor fences, men harraseed by burdens too heavy for them, over-wprked woman, and dirtyUeoed children, you may be strong to get on with; but you woe Id be more than human to find inspiration in misery. Paint divides the two norts of people: nid paintarwod the other don’t. Or, perhaps, the thrifty paint well; the unthrifty paint ill. To paint well is to keep paint sound. There are two ways to do it; one is bound to paint often; the other to use good paint. It oasts about half ae much to paint Devoe as to paint lead and oil; for Devoe last twioa as long and costs no mora-indeed it coats less but not muoh fess. .The thrifty and comfortable have the art of using money | more wisely. How luoky they areljbow hspryf Yours truly,

F. W. Devoe & Co.