Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1911 — One Cure for Sarcasm. [ARTICLE]

One Cure for Sarcasm.

Bunsen always was sarcastic. One evening last week when he got home his* wife had a new hat to show him. It was some bat. Anybody could have seen that it was the final phrase in female headgear. But Bunsen started to make remarks. He said it looked as if it had been trimmed by a cross-eyed milliner on an empty stomach. And he made a lot of other disparaging remarks. hire. Bunsen was almost in teats. Bunsen had to go into the other room to have a quiet laugh at her expense. The next day he had forgotten all about the hat The day after that he was reminded of it Mrs. Bunsen handed him a bill for retrimming that hat —118.34 it came to. Bunsen paid it without a murmur and said the revised edition of the hat was just exactly right He is not criticizing hats any more.