Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1912 — The Helpful Hinter. [ARTICLE]

The Helpful Hinter.

The man with the chenille whiskers and the agate eye comes stealthily in and hangs over the desk of the plodding slave in the shiny cpat. “Don’t let me interrupt yon,” he begs, "but I just thought of a little idea that you might use, If you wish. I believe in passing these ideas along —of course, I'm not in your line of bn«<nAaa a.t all, but nevertheless these notions come to me as I’m strollihg along, and if I took the bother to jot them down, no doubt I—” “What is the idea?” asks the pale hireling, apprehensively. “It’s just a little quip or a jest that you can fix up in your own way. I haven’t worked it out at all—leave that to you, you know. Something on the order of one man asking another where he will get the chestnuts to stuff his turkey, and the other man replying that he will get them out of your funny column. You see —” But the pale hireling has reached for a bell cord and rings up 1,256,879 on the Register of Ancient and Honor-' able Suggestions for Chestnut Stuffing.