Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1913 — Naturally He Wanted to Know. [ARTICLE]

Naturally He Wanted to Know.

“John," she called; as he was starting away, “I wish you would stop at the butcher’s and tell them to send up a nice porterhouse steak for dinner this evening, and you might also order three or four poundd of bacon and enough lamb chops for breakfast tomorrow morning, and, oh, yes, step! into the grocery and have them send two dozen of eggs and a couple of pounds of butter. Mary wants them for this afternoon. She is going to bake.’’ After he had succeed in getting his breath he asked: “Say, has your father relented and ‘agreed to let us.share his fortune?"