Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1911 — A SURPRISE PACKAGE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A SURPRISE PACKAGE.

But Please Dont Send lt t te a Nervous Person. It’s very pleasant getting a/Surprise —sometimes—but it would not be welt to send this kind of a surprise to any-

one who is very nervous. It’s just the thing, however, to spring on someone who can take s good joke. Yon take a piece of heavy pasteboard and cut small enough to go into an envelope easily. Then cut It Into the shape shown in the diagram, that Is. like the letter B, with the middle left out—attach a rubber band to the {pasteboard and Insert In It another piece of pasteboard, and finally fold the whole thing In a single leaf of paper just large enough to conceal It bnt not to confine It too closely, and Insert It Into nn envelope. All that Is now necessary is to send or hand the letter to your victim, who on opening It win bo very much surprised. When the boner begins Operations he will think sffineons has seat bias a nest of bumblebees. Try It