Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1890 — The Mother-in-Law Was Surprised. [ARTICLE]

The Mother-in-Law Was Surprised.

A well-known young man in lown who became the father of twins the other morning, grew so elated over the event that he proceeded to tiitie with the telegraph to the extent of 25 cents, aud wired his mother-in-law in Chicago in this jubilant, jag-ou strain: “Twins born! Head us off!” The next day he was surprised by a sudden swooping down of the mother-in-law upon him, bathed in tears and full of anxiety, even as the proud father had been full of a sweeter spirit ever* since the advent of his heirs. The mother-in-law had been shocked at the receipt of the telegram, for a wicked and soul-hardened telegraph operator had construed the message so that the horrified grandmother of the two innocents read it: “Twins born! Heads off!” —Toledo Blade.