Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1910 — Explanation Offered. [ARTICLE]

Explanation Offered.

"This pie,” said the young husband, looking at his wife with a peculiar light in his eye, "this pumpkin pie is not a bit like the ones mother used to bake*." "Oh, it isn't?" she sniffed. “Well, maybe you had better go—" “NO. It lm'f* he interrupted, "t c~n cut tins one.” Mean Old Thlnfl.c, •Tour wife,” says one of the men lm the background, “seems greatly pre* occupied tonight.” “Yes,” answers the husband. “I didn’t want her to hear what I was telling you, so I whispered to her that her hat was not on straight.”