Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1913 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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UNCONVENTIONALITIES. “Step lively, you old duffer! You’re obstructin’ the transportation system »f more’n 2,000,000 people!’’ “I’m not the least bit disappointed in you as a neighbor, Mrs. Nagsworth; iverybody told me I’d find you a regular old virago.” "Yes, sir, I wrote the story that was printed about you in the paper this morning, and if you make any fuss ibout it well print one so much worse that you’ll want to crawl oft somewhere and die.” "What ( are you kicking about, madam? That photograph looks exactly like you. If I should give you a hundred sittings I couldn’t make you appear handsome.** "Tommy, when- you go home you can tell your mother I kept you in after school because you are a bad bey whose parents don’t seem to know how to train children.”