Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1911 — Good Jokes [ARTICLE]

Good Jokes

MIS WIFE'S VERDICT. Mr. Sldener had made hie first public speech. His subject was good—the Iniquities of Industrial economy—and he hoped his treatment had been adequate. He was not sure. He waited tor his wife’s verdict, but she was strangely silent. She bad listened to him from the gallery of the town hall, and he had half expected her to meet him at the door afterward, and to say, as soon as they were out of hearing: “Oh, It Was simply great, Biddy!” But they were half way home and she had said nothing of the kind. "Well," he began awkwardly, when he could bear it no longer, "what did you think of my speech?” "What you said was all right,” she answered, with guarded enthusiasm. "But it seemed to me that you didn’t make the most of your opportunities.” “Opportunities?" repeated Mr. Side ner. "What do you mean. Effie?” “Why,” Mrs. Sidener replied, “you had ever so many chances to sit down before you did.” —London Ans were.