Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09
Pofotoe Hill
Farm Philosophy
IL. W. Howe's Monthly

IT, w HOWe'S Monthly
The world is full of hypocrites who
have never fooled anyone.
You never knew a devil who didn't
advise people to keep out of hell.
have been fooled so often that I
nearly always look the second time.
Keep looking around; you are liable
to find something new any day.
Women are always expected to make
little more fuss about prOpriety than
men.
Members of family may cordially
dislike each other, and still have what
passes for affection.
1 have noticed that the man who
says he is as good as anybody is al
ways making a fuss because he is not.
We Americans have boosted so much
about freedom that lately we almost
expect 1t to make living for US.
The automobile has provided new
cause of disagreement between men
and women: She wants the top up,
and he wants it down.
When I go to hotel and am treat
ed well, l turn out the lights on leav-
ing my room. But if the clerk is snip
Ply, l let them burn.
When I visit a dry goods store I
feel as much out of place as [ mag
inc woman does when she visits a
barber shop to get her baby boys hair
cut
Recently, while passenger on a
railroad train, I went forward into the
smoking car. A number of boys had
the windows up, and were looking out
to see what was going on. By the time
a man has reached sixty-two he has
found out what is going on-nothing-
and keeps his head in.
The people of country towns and
country communities should be a lit
tie more progressive and sensible; the
people of big towns should be little
more modest, and less progressive. L
sometimes think that at least a third
of the people of big towns like Chica-
go and New York are on the verge of
going to jail, for one cause or another.
In the average town you will find
this state of affairs: The commercial
club is constantly trying to induce new
institutions to locate in the town, and
calling on the people to contribute to
various funds for the purpose. At the
same time, the useful institutions al
ready in the town are annoyed in
many ways-with high taxes and with
unnecessary restrictions. The best
way to build up a town is to give it's
institutions a chance to grow and be-
come big.
Making money is a formula; it is
not genius. If man of average intel
ligence will observe few simple rules
he cannot very well avoid becoming
well-to-do.
First in the list is industry; but he
must be polite and fair, because these
simple virtues are of almost equal i'm
pOrtance to the money maker, or to
anyone who would succeed in a COM
mendable way. The man who makes
the profit from my trade must have
good stock of politeness as well as
good stock of groceries.
A genus is born, but a mOney-mak-
er is made. One of the surprising
things of everyday life is that men
of small intellect have money. But
they rarely neglect the simple formula
of the money-maker.
In my town a number of Protestant
preachers made a row because the
United States Marine band was to
give a concert Sunday night in a pub
lie school auditorium Whereupon a
Catholic priest offered the use of a
Catholic school auditorium, and not
only attended the concert himself but
announced and recommended it at his
Sunday morning service. In an adj
joining neighbOrhood there is a Christ
lelu OCCI Wu1Cn CGlGUI CLCS OdIul Qdy do
the Lords day, and it's adherents de-
clare that Sunday is a heather festival
Catholicism is growing because of
the pOliteness of it's teachers; they
mind their own business more per-
sistently than the teachers of any 9TH
er sect, unless it is the teachers of the
Christian Scientists; and his cult is
also growing.
In the summer we had lot of young
chickens for frying, and this fall we
had left over a rooster and a hen. AS
they grew up the meanness of the
rooster toward the hen was the scandal
of the neighborhood. He would never
let her have anything to eat, and
seemed to take a delight in it. When
he crOWpd we seemed tn detect q dec