Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1910 — Why He Grunted. [ARTICLE]

Why He Grunted.

Mra. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, at a dinner in Metuchen, said of a certain critic: "His ideas are all wrong. He reminds me of a man on a train. “The train was passing through a superb landscape that was defaced by innumerable advertisements. As he looked at an advertisement larger and more glaring than all the rest, the man uttered a loud grunt of disgust. " ‘Ah. sir,' 'exclaimed a long-haired individual in a velvet coat. 'I see you agree with me, sir, that such a hideous sign shouldn’t he allowed to deface the lovely scene.’ " ‘Oh, no.’- the man replied. ‘lt’s not that. But the stuffs poison—the worst whiary 1 ever drank.’ ”