Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1913 — An Acceptable Excuse. [ARTICLE]

An Acceptable Excuse.

"I am so embarrassed when among fashionable ladies,” declared Mrs. Wombat. ‘‘Why so?” “I don’t smoke.” “That fteedn’t lose you any caste. Tell the other ladies that your doctor forbids it.”