Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — Disappointing. [ARTICLE]

Disappointing.

The mental havoc wrought by a long pursuant of the game known as “Anagrams” is sometimes sad to contemplate. A young girl who had had a protracted struggle to transpose the words “Nl e ham” into something else, at last asked eagerly: “Are proper names allowable?” “Oh dear, what a shame!" exclaimed the girl. “I thought I had found the anagram for this ( Id ‘Nice ham’ at last To be sure, I don’t know as I ever really knew anybody by the name of MacHlne, but it' sounds as if It were tome one’s name, anyhow!” And without a thought of the domestic “machine” so dear to thrifty householders, or to any of the other machines so liberally advertised at every turn, she swept the disappointing combination into a heap, and began her struggle afresh.