Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1913 — JOHN ALSO NEEDED MONEY [ARTICLE]

JOHN ALSO NEEDED MONEY

As It. Turned Out, Wife Need Not Have Been Afraid of What He Might Say. It was Christmas eve. A beautiful woman sat staring dolefully r.t the embers of the fire. “Christmas eve,” she murmured, and no money to buy baby a Christmas gift.” Slowly her eye* wandered round the room untij, ,with a'guilty start, they rested oil something' standing on the mantelpiece. It was baby’s money box. Her hands clutched the chair convulsively. “If I only dared!” she' murmured “But what would John say?” For a few moments she stood debating the awful question in her mind, and then she took the box in her hands. “John need never know,” she whispered. Then, with guilty face, she broke open the box and emptied on to the table a collection of —tin tacks, nails, etc. John had been there first