Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1912 — IN THE PREVAILING MODE [ARTICLE]

IN THE PREVAILING MODE

Now if the file In a rasping tong should call'the auger a boro, If * wore a bobble skirt would the Illy pad—and Can g nc&enger be a cheerful mattf when he’s jLfyays in the dumps If you board a spell at a shore hotells the you If a parrot can swear can a crocus, too? Enough, ere we all grow iU-3 If a single-car weighs several tons, how ifluck does the whole subway? “ If * Harvard oarsman rows in * shell, in what does the salmon roe? ' ■ fllll If no grata Is grown in the frozen north, what ihen does the Eskinw? : If a gtm BtoswF woqld aiparachute? Thlit irtuff gives me a pain. _ If a thief broke into-a drtig store, do you think that the.dogwood,bark? If the house wasfulland the water drunk, would the hose reel all around? And if the waters could speak an they flow, how would Long Island Sound? .. - . - If the water pipes in a dance hall burst would the dancers use their pumps? V* .JOE ~ And the monkey wrench a not from the vise, Would the plane just smooth things o’ektfy This is the frivolous sort of thing that is dubbed a Daffydill.—-Boston Transcript.