Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — The One That Chose to Pay. [ARTICLE]

The One That Chose to Pay.

Three men bad been out on a spree, and on tbe way home late at night they made a wager that tbe one who did not do as bls wife told him should pay for a champagne supper the following night* Tbe first one returned home, and his wife greeted him thus: “Hello, you beauty! That’s rightknock all tbe ornaments off the. mantelpiece.l" He knocked them all off. The second returned and on going into his house fell against tbe piano, whereupon his wife said: “Go on; get a chopper and smash it up!" He did so. The third returned, and on going upstairs his wife said: “You miserable wretch, fall downstairs and break your neckf* Needless to say, be paid .for the supper.—London Spare Momenta