Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1912 — Not Ugly, But Plain. [ARTICLE]

Not Ugly, But Plain.

Two country women, mother and daughter, were at the circus for the first time. They were greatly taken with the menagerie. At last they came to the hippopotamus, and stood for several minutes transfixed In silent wonder. Then the mother turned to her daughter and said, slowly and solemnly, “My! Ain’t—he—plain?"