Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1912 — Husband May Have Fallen From Water Wagon Since. [ARTICLE]

Husband May Have Fallen From Water Wagon Since.

It is a funny world. A Rochester woman made a vow that she would stay in bed until her husband signed the pledge. Well, hubby balked with the signature but wife hung put She staid in bed for sixteen years and finally the male half of the sketch sighed “the pledge. Then he went to his heart’s delight and said, “Greetings, love, you can get up, I've signed the pledge.” Whereupon the wife answered, “Well then, I guess I’ll get up.” But the plans of mice and men oft gang, etc. She couldn’t get up. She found that her legs were atrophied and that she could not walk, because of the long stay in the hay. Just what they will do with the pledge isn’t chronicled in the dispatches.