Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1913 — Too Tender With It, [ARTICLE]

Too Tender With It,

A physician tells a story of a philanthropic doctor in a Pennsylvania coal mining town who presented each household with a nice new thermometer and told the people the necessity of maintaining a proper temperature. When making his rounds one day he observed his thermometer hanging in the room. He inquired of the woman

of the house if she had remembered his instructions. "Indeed, sir, I do,” was the response. "I bang the thing right up there and I watch it carefully to see it does not get too high.’ "G:od!” exclaimed the doctor. "And what do you do when the temperature rises above 70 degrees?” “Why, sir,” answered the woman, with the air of one faithful to a trust, “when It gets too high 1 take it down< and put it outside until it cools off.” —Newark Sts'