Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1911 — Smooth Work. [ARTICLE]

Smooth Work.

“Hear about Wlseun’s way of getting all the mince pie he wants to eat when they have company at home?” asks the neighbor. “No. How does he work it?” “He always starts a temperance discussion Just before the pie is brought on and then cites instances of men who have been started on the downward path Just by tasting the brandy in mince pie and ostentatiously declines to take any of It himself. The result is that the others follow suit, and then, when the guests have gone he goes to the pantry and eats the whole pie.”