Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1910 — Tit for Tat. [ARTICLE]

Tit for Tat.

Being of a literary turn and having plenty of leisure, both Mr. and Mrs. Gluppins contributed special articles occasionally to two different newspapers in the town where they resided. One day Mr. Gluppins picked up a manuscript his wife had just finished, and proceeded to look it over. “That’s very good, Bertha,” he said, after completing his Inspection, “but I see you use the phrase, ‘well-known fact.’ I wouldn’t do that.” "Why not?” she asked. "Well, if a thing is well-known, why mention It?” His wife said nothing in rejoinder at the time, but a few days later, while reading one of his articled in print, she found something to criticize. “Horace," said she, “I am surprised to see you using the phrase, ‘self-evi-dent.’ ” “What’s the matter with that?” "Why, if a thing is self-evident, what is the use of calling attention to it?” Horace looked at her sharply over his glasses, but made no verbal response.—Youth’s Companion.