Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1913 — CAP and BELLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAP and BELLS

ANOTHER WORRY FOR MARIA Farmer's Wife Objected to Cuckoo Clock Because She Had All the Birds She Could Feed. That there Is a limit to the cares and responsibilities of the housewife was demonstrated by a little story told in an after-dinner speech by Governor -Fletcher of Vermont. “A middle-aged couple from one of the back counties visited Montpelier one day,” said the governor, “and ■while rambling down the main street looking at the sights their attention was attracted by a cuckoo clock in the show window of a jewelry store. “The clock was striking at the time, and as the cuckoo came out and chirped the hour the rural couple looked on with mingjed admiration apd wonder. “ *Well, I declare!” exclaimed the fanner’s wife as the cuckoo concluded this announcement and retired within the clock, ‘never in all my life did I see anything like that!” “ 'Ner me, neether, Maria,’ responded Hezekiah, still retaining his look of astonishment, ‘an sence we need a' new clock at home, what do ye say If we buy thet one?’ “ ’We won’t do anything of the kind, Hezekiah !” was the emphatic declaration of Maria. ‘Don’t ye s’pose I’ve got enough chickens, an’ ducks, an’ geese, an’ turkeys, an’ other things to look after now without feedin ’a pesky bird?’” —Philadelphia Telegraph.