Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1910 — Unanswerable Questions. [ARTICLE]

Unanswerable Questions.

Why deth the little busy girl Pile on her pretty head A switch, a puff, a bird, a- curl. Of ladles who are dead? Why doth she then with calm delight Perch on the top of that A most absurd bombastic fright, A horror of a hat? Why does, she then her pretty shape Hide In a luckless gown That hath no graceful curves to drape? It’s only up and down. Why doth she hie herself to luncfi. Study the bill of fare, And then proceed to buy and ‘munch One chocolate eclair? ✓ Why doth she softly murmur no, When what she means Is yes? And when she knows it isn’t so,. Why doth she acquiesce? Why doth she dance us round In glee. Like puppets tied to strings? And yet. In secret why do we Love her for just these things? —Carolyn' Wells, in the Sunday Magazine. No matter how much a woman loves her husband she Just can’t help abuslng him now and then. It is a great pity that the chap who Invented trouble didn’t take out a perpetual patent on It