Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1912 — Measuring Her Woe. [ARTICLE]

Measuring Her Woe.

Throughout his career as a newspaper reporter (he y<?ung man’s assignments had taken him Into demonstrative crowds whose periods of ncdsy demonstration it was to time. “Mr. A. finally appearing, the audience cheered for fifteen minutes.’ “Senator X. finished his second Joke amid laughter that lasted for ten minutes," or, “At the close of the speech the audience applauded wildly for thirteen minutes." ? These and similar records -of the public pulse plentifully adorned nearly every story the young man wrote. One day he was sent to attend the funeral of a rich and crusty-tempered old gentleman whose young wife had notoriously repented her choice. The young man wound up his story of the funeral thus: "In the silence that ensued the widow wept for sixteen seconds."