The Daily Astorian

YOU'VE PROBABLY NOTICED THIS.

Men are like houses. They are flats. They, too, have bricks—within their hats. They're mortgaged, hammered, nailed and floored. And have room-attics, and their board. Houses have tenants, and, we guess, a man has ten aunts, more or less. Both have top stories, empty quite, and each doth take carpenter right. Houses and men of ancient dates have scanty locks and broken gaits. Houses on corners stand, with stairs; men do the same. Both need repairs. Houses are lathed with plaster. Men are plastered all with lather when they shavings have. They're shingled, too, upon their man's hard roof so true. A house well built will settle some; a man well billed will settle—grum. Scaffolds on houses hang: but men hang on a scaffold oft again. Unlike a man a house of wood foundation has for stories good. Both have "bay-windows" full of panes of glasses where de light soon wanes. Both fire insurance need below for mansions burning much we know.—Shakespeare (Revised Edition).