Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1910 — Hampered by Conventionalities. [ARTICLE]

Hampered by Conventionalities.

Washington was crossing the Delaware River at Trenton. "Of course,” he said, "I don’t ihlnd standing up in this frail boat and gazing sternly in the direction of the unsuspecting foe, since the artists insist on depicting me in this absurd attitude, but the blithering chumps ought to know better than to paint these blocks of floating ice projecting a foot above the water. Any man with an ounce of gumption knows that the ice in this river isn’t eight feet thick!” Angered by these reflections, he fell upon the Hessians shortly afterward with extreme ferocity.—Chicago Tribune.