Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — Good Jokes [ARTICLE]

Good Jokes

HIS WIFE’S VERDICT.

Mr. Sldener bad made bis first public speech. His subject was good—the Iniquities of Industrial economy—and he hoped his treatment bad been adequate. He was not sure. He waited for his wife’s verdict, but she was strangely silent. She had listened to him from the gallery erf the town hall, and he bad 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, Eddy!” 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 opportunltlea” "Opportunities?" repeated Mr. Sldener. “What do you mean, Effie?" “Why," Mrs. Sldener . replied, “you had ever so many chances to sit down before you did." —London Answers