Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1911 — His Economy. [ARTICLE]

His Economy.

The children in the Blank family were taught habits of neatness at the table by being compelled to pay a fine of one cent for every spot they put on the tablecloth. One day Harold, a boy of seven years, was discovered rubbing the overhanging part of the cloth between his fingers, and. when taken to task for it, he said: “Why, I wust Just trying to rub two spots into one.” —Woman’s Horn* Compaion.