Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1913 — Mis Grump. [ARTICLE]

Mis Grump.

"For years and years,” grouched the Old Codger, in his usual pessimistic way, “we have been sending missionaries to. the Chinese —plank-shaped and tub-shaped ones, both with sidewhiskers, who spake in nasal tones and acted with the chastened intolerance of hyenas; young, dried-up ones with weak eyes and weaker intellects; slimy, sliding ones, who were gathering material from which to lecture and with which to furnish a house or two when they got back; old-maid ones that looked like flying-machines or old fashioned chums, just as it happened; and a glorious list of others, all of whom needed the money and cost us a great deal. And, still, in spite of our beneficence to themward, the ungrateful Chinese ’pear to be just as unregenerate and almost as peculiar as they were in the firstj place. What say?”