Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1911 — TOO MUCH OF A BATH [ARTICLE]

TOO MUCH OF A BATH

SWIMMERS UTTERLY UNABLE TO APPRECIATE JOKE. S I '-fv ''v ~ ... l i. i. i ■*. ij., * i. K t Tyson and Botts, Kept In Water for Hours by Two Fool Friends, Emerged Therefrom In Most Unchristtanlike Mood. I t ...: .;.!•** ■■ ■ They take boarders out at Dr. Jones?, and among them are Messrs. Tyson and Botts, two young men who are engaged in businesp in the city. One day in. July, after supper, Tysond and Botts Went down to the creek to take a swim. As soon as they left’ the house, two or three of the other fellows hinted that it would be a good joke for two of them to dress In women’s clothes and go over and scare Tyson and Botts. So several of them borrowed some skirts and hats and other female fixings, and, after assuming them, started toward the cr,eek. The two swimmers saw them coming and began to paddle up stream to get out of their way. The female figures came nearer and took seats on the bank of the stream, so close to the clothes of the swimmers that there was no chance at all for Tyson and Botts to sneak out and dress themselves hurriedly. And the supposed women sat there In the mpst aggravating manner, while Tyson and Botts stayed In the wafer shivering. Presently they got up to go, the swimmers thought; but, to the horror of the latter, they perceived the women get Into a boat and begin to paddle up stream. They went very slowly, and- so Tyson and Botts had time enough to swim farther up, in order to get out of the way. The boat followed them up for about a mile, and then Tyson concluded to do something to explain the situation to the ladies. He was beginning to feel sick.

Accordingly he shouted at the top of his voice, and Botts shouted; but those idiotic women still continued to pull up stream. The swimmers were almost crazy, and at last they made a dash for the bank and hid behind the bußhes. Then the 'kronen in the boat turned round and began to row down the stream. Botts and Tyson got in the water again and swam after the boat The women landed close by their clothes, and, to the amazement of the swimmers, picked them up and began to walk off with them. Then Tyson and Botts became excited and swam In close to the shore to hulloa at the women, and then the women began to laugh, and' the victims of the joke saw Just how it was. When they emerged from the water they didn’t join in the merriment They seemed gloomy and sad. As soon as Botts got his shirt on he went np to' Peters and shook his fist under his nose, and Bald: “You red-headed idiot. I've got a notion to bang the liver out of you! Oh, you may laugh, but if you ever try any of your jokes on me again I’ll murder you! Now, you mind me!” Tyson and Botts will board elsewhere 'next summer.—New York Weekly.