Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1911 — Good Jokes [ARTICLE]

Good Jokes

A GOOD PROVIDER.

Clement J. Driscoll, New York’s 8111“ ' ring commissioner of weights and measures, advocates the sale of breed by weight, and discussing a baker's objection to this idea, be said with a •mile: "in Europe the government regulates the weight of bread, and In some cases even the price. This baker, pretending that it la better for the people not to have such regulations, reminds me vividly of the poor provider. “A washerwoman—so the provider story goes—got married, and one of her clients said to her a month or so after the ceremony: " *Do you get on well with your husband, Mary?' “ 'Oh, yes, ma’am,’ was tbo reply. "Is be a good provider?’ "Indeed he Is a good provider, ma’am. He got me four new places to wash last week.’ "—New York Tribune.