Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1912 — Why He Couldn’t Sit Down. [ARTICLE]

Why He Couldn’t Sit Down.

' Marry, aged aix, la an orphan; but maiden aunt have taken care of him. The first pair of knickerbockers were secured recently, and it was a proud moment for the hoy when his aunt put. them on Jbim on Sunday morning and he was permitted to go to church with his grandmother. Naturally maiden aunts know, very little about the arrangement of knickerbockers, and there was a suspicious fullness in front and an equally mystifying tightness in the back to be observed, as the little chap trudged happily along. In church Harry sat down, but did not appear comfortable and stood up. “Harry, sit down,” whispered his grandmother. He obediently climbed back qn the seat, but soon slipped off again. “Harry, you must sit down,” “Grandma, I can’t. My pants is choking me.” She looked more closely than her dim sight had before permitted, and discovered the new little knickerbockers were on hind side before. Harry stood up during the remainder of the service.