Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1913 — GOOD JOKES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOOD JOKES

INEXPERIENCED. In a boarding house for bachelors, Amanda, typical “mammy,” looked after the guests’ comfort in true southern style so well that one of the men thought he would take her away with him in the Bummer in the capacity of housekeeper. Toward Bpring he waylaid her in the hall one day and said: “Mandy, do yoh like the country?” Mandy reckoned she did. “Would you like to go away with me —this summer and keep house for me?" Mandy was sure she would. “Suppose I get Just a bungalow. Do you think you could take care of it nicely by yourself?” Mandy gasped and rolled her eyes. “’Deed no, massa! Reckon you all better get somebody else; I don’t know nothin’ about taking care of any animals!” —Harper’jS Magazine.