Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — THE RICH SISTER. [ARTICLE]

THE RICH SISTER.

She Fraud Huuk Mach Better OB than She Expected. “Don’t put that in, Elsie," said Mrs. Shannon, as she -watched the packing of her own trunk. She was preparing for a great event. At the age of seventy she was leaving her comfortable city home to journey several hundred miles, for the purpose of visiting an eighty-year-old sister, whom she had not seen in a quarter of a century. “Not put in your prettiest wrapper!” her daughter protested. “I shan't want it—with all that lace trimming.’' “I know. You’re afraid it will be nicer than anything Aunt Hannah has. Do you think she is poor, mother?” The habitual look of worry on Mrs. Shannon’s face deepened. “I never can find out from her letters just how p00r.,, But I know she has lost all three of her children'and