Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1912 — Measuring Her Woe. [ARTICLE]

Measuring Her Woe.

Throughout his career as a newspaper reporter tbe young man’s assignments had taken him into demonstrative crowds whose periods of noisy demonstration it was his duty 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 thlr teen minutes.” These and similar records of the public pulse plentifully adorned nearly every atofy the young man wrote. One day be was sent to attend tee 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.”