Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — Playin’ by Ear. [ARTICLE]

Playin’ by Ear.

In a recent speech in the senate. Senator Rayner of Maryland was condemning the argument of a political opponent “My colleague misunderstood me,” he said. “He misunderstood me as completely as the little boy misunderstood the ear trumpet “One Sunday morning in church as the hymn was beginning, be saw a man take an ear trumpet from his bosom and clap it to his ear. ‘Oh. ma, look!’ he whispered, excitedly, to his mother. That there gentleman must be goin’ to play by ear!’”