Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1913 — Poor Uncle Ed. [ARTICLE]

Poor Uncle Ed.

A Baltimore man was recently showing his nloe new opera-hat to his little nephew, and when he caused the toppiece to spring open three or four times the youngster was delighted. A few days thereafter the unde, during a visit to the same household, brought with him a silk hat of the shiny, non-collapßible kind. When he waß about to leave the house, he encountered the aforesaid youngster running down thb hall with what looked like a black accordion. "Uncle Ed,” observed the boy, “this one goes awfully hard. I had to sit on it; but even then I couldn’t get it more than half-shut”