Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1910 — A Financial Joke. [ARTICLE]

A Financial Joke.

"I want to go home quick, my wife has presented me with a fine boy,” said a waiter In the Case Martin last Saturday to the head waiter. "Sure thing! Beat it, quick! My, but you’re lucky,” replied the head waiter. It Is the rule at the Case Martin that when a son Is born in the family of any employe 3100 is given to the father and 350 for a girl. With his face wreathed in smiles, the waiter returned to the restaurant In the afternoon carrying a big baby boy. In the restaurant were John B. Martin and his brother, Louis, Mark A. Mayer and Julian Kauffman. These iour reared to the private office of the case, with the waiter and the baby, and set about celebrating. Wine was opened and glasses filled. Then while Louis Martin held the baby his brother John rose, and lifting the glass spoke solemn truths on the honor and responsibility of being the father of such a magnificent boy and gave the waiter a |IOO bill Mayer added a 3100 bill. The toast was drunk. The waiter and the baby departed. They had been gone only a few minutes when a little Frenchwoman excitedly entered. "Where is that waiter?" she demanded. “He has gone,” was the reply. “He said he only wanted to borrow my 4-months-old baby for a few minutes, and he has been gone an hour and a half. Oh, where is my baby?” She said the waiter had boarded with her a week and had borrowed the baby tp show a friend.—New York World. .--==-rr- -