Perhaps the chap who qualifies as a model husband is merely posing.
Leader scout claims to have picked up a hitch-hiker whose thumb was worn off down to the second joint.
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"Things We Think; Things Others Think; and What We Think of the Things Others Think"
In the Cottage Grove Sentinel
By Elbert Bede
"Cottage Grove," says Elbert Bede, "is the only city in the world of which I have been a resident more than three years at a time in my entire life, and 24 here doesn't seem as long as three did in some of the others." He was born at Randolph, Iowa, on June 28, 1881, securing only a grammar school education and becoming a printer's devil at the age of seven. He started at 18 and successively was editor and publisher of three Minnesota papers—the Sandstone Courier, the Warren Sheaf and the North Branch Review—before becoming associate editor of his father's well-known Bede's Budget in Duluth. He came to Cottage Grove in September, 1911, and has since edited the Sentinel, a weekly paper with a wide reputation. He is the author of the chapter in this book on Opal Whiteley. He has been president of the chamber of commerce and member of the city council in his own town, has been twice elected president of the Oregon State Editorial Association, and for several sessions was reading clerk of the Oregon house of representatives. In tribute to the satisfying nature but adequate quantity of his family, he says: "I have one wife, three daughters and one son, and want no more of any."
He has used three different titles for his column—"Elbert Bede's Sunshine", "Elbert Bede Says" and "Things We Think; Things Others Think; and What We Think of the Things Others Think". The latter has been used the most. He started it in Minnesota in 1915 and at one time syndicated it to 200 customers. He sold it continuously to newspapers for eight years and again, after interruptions, for two periods of four and three years each. It occupies about a column of space on the front page of the Cottage Grove Sentinel.
The perfect husband is one who makes good on all the good things his wife tells the neighbors about him.
The man who keeps his word can always find someone to take it.
