Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1912 — ON THE JOB [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ON THE JOB

“I tell you you can’t beat* my wife or presence of mind,” said the man rt the dub, proudly. “Listen to this. One day last week,an old gossip of our cighboroood called, and I left her and I fie alone in the parlor. “An hour later, having the impresion tha our caller had departed, I iounced into the room with, ‘So the !d lat has gone, eh?’ Well, as I lifted my eyes, there was the woman herself h. front of me. But my wife—bless her—was there with the goods. “ ‘Yes, dear,” she said, calmly, ‘I eent it to the cats’ home in a basket first thing this morning.’ ”

“Say, pop, what is meant by letting t.ell eno: ga Alone?” “A good example of it is when an nniarrkd man just continues to regain sin o le.”

HIS CHANCE.