Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1911 — Good Jokes [ARTICLE]

Good Jokes

HIS WIFE’S VERDICT. Mr. Sldener had made his 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 for his wife’s verdict, but she was strangely silent She had 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 Eddy!" But they were half way home and she bad said nothing of the kind. “Well,” he beg&h awkwardly, when he could bear it' "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. Sidener. “What do you mean, Effie?” “Why,” Mrs. Sidener replied, “you had ever so many chances to Bit down before you did.” —London Answers.