Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-05-19

ihey all do it," and that is wb a
tney call clean politics and whv Il
man! He isn't by more than thra,
rows of apple trees.
And there is going to be weddine
at his house and the mother heoi,s :
10 get ready for. it three months in
advance. and the house must he ren.
oVated from one end to the other an
the nan gets out early and stavs out
late, and then comes the preacher
and the invited guests, and then sec
MN strut around with his hes
cloths on and swell up when he
speaks of ''our" wedding.
And when there is a birth in the
family it is worse yet, he sits in
the kitchen and studies the tariff
question while everybody else is jump
ing and flying, and when nice little
roily poly baby is shown to him he
straightens up and speaks of 1t as
my" son. Jerusalem! Why is a
man?
He will walk as straight as ram.
rod for twenty years, and all at
once he would rather go to the devil
with an affinity than go to church
with his wife, and the older he gets
the fooler he grows. There is no
fool on earth equal to an old fool
Look at King Solomon, the wisest
ever, and when he got old he didn't
know enough to pound sand in rat
hole. He had so many wives he
couldn't count them twice alike, and
he would sit on the housetop like a
coyote baying at the moon and howl
vanity. Solomon was lucky too, if
his father had not stolen Uriahs
wife Solomon would probably have
been his own half brother. One thing
that made Solomon SO wise was the
number of-wives that he had he got
credit for wisdom because he did not
talk enough to let folks know what
he did not know; he couldn't get
chance.to talk. besides that he knew
whole lot that he dare not tell fol
fear of making trouble in the family.
1t is only a step from an User" to
"has-been," and the fool of today
is the wiseacre of tomorrow and the
next day he is a bigger fool than
ever. so why is man, anyhow?
Man comes forth like a flower and
is cut down, but would be better off
If he would come about fifth like a
razor back hog and get cut up when
he is too old to root for himself. He
fleeth also as shadow and con.
tinueth not, but he might as well
stay and marry her for he will get
caught anyhow and have to support
her and if he won't continue, the
court will jump onto his wages.
Man is the only animal that walks
on his hind legs and eats horserad-
ish in the spring. He sits in his of.
flee tipped back in his chair, and
smokes his cigar with satisfied air;
| he's at home long enough to swallow
his meals and he grumbles and tells
how 'rocky" he feels, or sits on the
street on a roll of barbwire. and
howls how the tariff is making things
higher, then fills up on finecut and
spits and looks wise; while his wife
puts the screens up to guard against
flies, he growls when its fair, and he
4 growls when it rains, he growls at
the trains, while his good wife at
home is breaking her back, with
scissors and patterns and an old
/ flour sack, to make the kids gar.
ments (while he takes his easel and
fixes them up warm enough SO they
won't freeze. withsxxx roller process
SO gorgeous and quaint on the bosom
thereof In radiant paint, to exc out
a living she will do all she can, and
wonder as we do. why, why is a mar