Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1912 — Her Excuse. [ARTICLE]

Her Excuse.

“These people have a plausible and self-righteous excuse for their misdeeds,’’ said Senator Bankhead, apropos of certain hypocritical lawbreakin an address in Fayette. “They remind me, in fact, of a certain parson’s domineering wife. Tho parson Bald meekly one day: “‘My love, you told me before the wedding that you knew our marriage was made in heaven, yet you now order me about as if I were a slave.' “‘Order,’ the woman calmly answered, ‘is heaven’s first law.’"