Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1913 — The Weight Man's Woes. [ARTICLE]

The Weight Man's Woes.

“I wouldn’t mind this business,” acknowledged the man who guesses the weights of people, “If It wasn’t for the automobile coats the women wear to hldo their figures—how are you to guess a weight unless you see the figure?—and if the crowd didn't nearly die laughing whenever 1 happen to guess wrong. A lot of them seem to stand around waiting to Bee me guess wrong, then chortle like fiends."