Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1910 — Anticipation. [ARTICLE]

Anticipation.

“Doesn't it make you the least bit envious to see what elegant furniture Mrs. Eyefly is putting into her house next door?” “Not a bit. My husband says it will be sold by the sheriff within six mouths —and I'll be there to buy it. — Chicago Tribune. 1

has been on intimate terms for all h r eventful life. She often wishes that she “had been borned a boy,” but as that desire cannot be accomplished she participates in their joys and sorrows, in their pleasures and their toil, as much as circumstances will permit. And she has a thorough understanding of a boy’s character. The other day her brothers came home from school with a problem in arithmetic which had caused a good deal of discussion among their playmates, and submitted it for the edification of the family at the lunch table: “If a boy draws his sled to the top of a hill nine times and slides down eight times, where is he?” ’ The wise young woman from the depths of her experience answer.?-! without hesitation: “I dess he has gone h<xne for his mudder to mend his pants.”—Washington Star.