Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1912 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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FILIPINO SORROW. ‘ When I went down to breakfast the other morning at my hotel I found the attentive and unusually intelligent Filipino waiter who has served me ever since I attached myself to the hostelry sad. His eyes were bleared with salty tears and he looked down Kt the floor to avoid my glance of inquiry. “I am a few minutes late,” I said to the waiter. And then: “You have been crying. What troubles you?” Again he burst into tears, and, leaning his head against the wall, sobbed as if his heart would break. “What on earth ails you?” I asked, xather sympathetically. “Any of your relatives dead?” “No, no, senor, not that,” and the waited boohooed again. “Then out with it, boy!” I •*- dajmed, Impatiently; out with It!” “Oh, senor,” he stammered, "the pancakes are cold!” Noble muchacho, that, isn't he? — Philippine Monthly. .