Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1910 — Pinched the Wrong One. [ARTICLE]

Pinched the Wrong One.

Among the passengers on a Pennsylvania train leaving Newark about four o’clock a day or so ago for New York was a group of four,, father, mother, a boy about five years old >*nd a girl about three years younger. Nearly all the way to Jersey City the head of the family was trying to convince bis wife that there was no danger in going by the tube, but the woman seemed nervous and kept repeating, “Let’s take the boat” At Jersey City the father guided them to the elevator, and they entered the car in waiting. No sooner had it started than the woman gave signs of hysterics, but the man, alive to the situation, pinched the baby. it squalled lustily, diverting the mother’s attention from imaginary danger. A number'of-phssengers witnessed the performance, one of whom when the short trip was over asked the man: “Why didn’t you pinch the woman r