Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1913 — Something to Be Thankful For. [ARTICLE]

Something to Be Thankful For.

Michael Mehan was the proud possessor of a brand new silk high hat At the wake of his dearest enemy he had guarded It carefully, and as a consequence was strolling home with the tile unscathed. As he passed the site of a building operation, a lady acquaintance nodded pleasantly. With an ostentatious wave of the hat, which exhibited it to excellent advantage. Michael bowed. At the same moment a brick sailed down from an upper floor and bounced from his bared skull. Upon coming to he inquired anxiously for the hat A bystander restored it unharmed. Mike felt the egg-sized lump on bis bead occasioned by the impact of the brick, and then regarded his undamaged tile.* “Begorry,” he sighed in satisfaction, “it’s lucky it is I saw the loldy In toime!"