Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — The Eight-Hour System. [ARTICLE]

The Eight-Hour System.

An eight-hour man on going home the other evening for his 'supper found his wife all dressed up in her Sunday best sitting on the front door step reading a French novel. “How is tbis?” he angrily exclaimed. “Where is my supper?” “I don’t know,” replied his wife. “I began your breakfast at 6 o’clock tbis morning, and my eight hours were up at 2 p. m. ”