Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1911 — Needed Assistance. [ARTICLE]

Needed Assistance.

’A poor old cast-down hobo started to knock the paint off of a back door the other morning, and when he tear-, fully told the lady who appeared that ,he had a sick wife at home and a dozen, hungry kids, she gave him a couple of home-made biscuits. Daintily the hobo handled them, and once more he glanced up wistfully. “What’s the matter,” indignantly demanded the housewife, "aren’t you satisfied with the biscuits?” “Yes, dear lady,” replied the trampful one, “but I thought perhaps you would be so kind as to loan me a putcracker for a few minutes.”