Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1913 — Quite Simple. [ARTICLE]

Quite Simple.

Boston Five-Year. Old —Father, whas Is the exact meaning of the verse beginning, “Jack Sprat could eat no fat?” Father —In simple terms it is as follows: Jack Sprat could assimilate no adipose tissue. His wife, on the other hand, possessed an aversic# for the more muscular portions of epithelium. And so between them both, you see, they removed all the foreign substances from the surface of that utilitarian utensil com-monly-balled a platter. Does that make it clear, son?^. Boston Five-Year-Old —Perfectly, father. The lack of lucidity in these Mother Goose rhymes is amazingly apparent.