Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1910 — The Stomach Hold. [ARTICLE]

The Stomach Hold.

Colonel H. N. Renouf, at the “Old Guard”. banquet at Delmonico’s, emphasized the importance to an army of a good commissariat > 1 "You have perhaps heard,” he said, "of the company of privates that a patriotic lady entertained one Memorial day to dinner. “It was a good dinner, and at its end a pretty maid servant entered with a superb dessert. " ‘Dessert, sergeant?’ she said to the stalwart young soldier at the head of the table. “ ‘Desert?’ the sergeant answered. “When I can get eats like this for nothin’? Nixie! Not met*-”