Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1911 — Their Last Hope Gone. [ARTICLE]

Their Last Hope Gone.

When the minister praised the raspberry jam at Mrs. Green’s bountiful Saturday night supper, he could not imagine why Angie and Horatio, the twins, gazed at him so reproachfully. “Don’t you like raspberry jam, my little man?” he asked Horatio. “Yes, sir, I do, and Angle does,” said Horatio, in distinctly resentful tones, “and mother told us that she was afraid the last she made wasn’t quite up to the mark, and If you didn’t praise it, Angie and I could have it for luncheon on our bread, for Mrs. Willis and Mrs. Shedd never said a word when they ate It, and you’ve made the third; but now she’ll use It for the church sociables,” and Horatio looked gloomily at his twin, who returned the look in kind —Youth’s Companion.