Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1913 — HENPECK HAS LITTLE JOKE [ARTICLE]

HENPECK HAS LITTLE JOKE

For Once He Turned the Tables on His Wife, and Surely Had a Right to Laugh, Henpeck was In a state of delight all the evening; it was so evident that at last we asked whether some one had left him a fortune. “No, but It is the joke of the age. I have been laughing all day. This morning when I went into the dining room at breakfast time there waß no meal visible. I went Into my wife’s room and there she was still asleep. So unlike Bertha, you know. I called her: ’Say, Bertha, It’s eight o’clock; I want my Not a move-, ment. I shouted; shook the bed; brought In the frying pan and beat the reveille upon it. All to no purpose. What was I to do? Time was passing and I didn’t feel inclined to go to work hungry. Get my own breakfast? Not on your life. What .am I married for? Then a bright thought struck me. I took off my shoei, crept as quie.ly as I could along the passage; a board creaked; in a moment Bertha was awake. “‘James, where have you been?’ “And you should have seen her when she realized the truth. Ha! ha!”