Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — She Tried to Obey. [ARTICLE]

She Tried to Obey.

Eddie Foy, at the Lambs* Club gambol in New York, told a Panama hat story, according to the Washington Star. “A young clerk out my way,” he said, “gave his girl a present of a Panamo last year. Then, the day before the Fourth, he got a couple ofcdmpllmentarles for a picnic, eJambake Mid com roast down the river and he wired the girl: “‘Meet me at Pier 18 tomorrow morning at l.g Picnic. Bring Panama.* ’ r ; • “The next morning as he stood on Pier 13 dreaming of love, Imagining a long, sweet day of billing and cooing, he saw his girl advancing with her father and mother. He was terribly annoyed, and on the boat as soon as he could get her alone he hissed: “‘What did you want to bring the old folks forr And she showed him the telegram, which th© operator had made to read: * "Bring pa. and ma.’ ” .-v li"' . '•' ‘ *’■ -t!