Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1911 — Upsetting the Tabies. [ARTICLE]

Upsetting the Tabies.

Jones was sitting In the hotel lobby looking over the columns of a comic Weekly, when « stranger touched his Wa •Pardon me,*' he apologized, pointing to a four-line Joke. "Would you 'mind telliac me just what you think MX that?’’ Sizing him up for a man with his first Joke in print, Jones thought he •would have some fun. Concentrating *ll the disgust in his anatomy, he spread it over his physiognomy in a nauseous expression and replied: "No point that 1 can see." "Thanks," said the stranger, with a dangerous'smile of an old writer term* of his wit. “You know, 1 often wonder vhen 1 am writing such things how many of the readers will be able to grasp them."—New York Hedaid.