Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1913 — CASE OF MAN’S INGRATITUDE [ARTICLE]

CASE OF MAN’S INGRATITUDE

Woman Certainly Had Poor Reward for Her Act of Generous Self-Sacrifice.

George B. McClellan, former mayor of New York, was talking about Thanksgiving. “The day,” tie said, “is a good one for a holiday—a good one, for a visit to the seashore,. - “I was once walking the Boardwalk in the brilliant sunshine of an Atlantic City Thanksgiving day afternoon, when I saw an overdressed couple come forth from a case. “They were quarreling. Their voices grew louder and fiercer. Finally the man gave the woman a that actually. knocked her down. “Aa she struggled to her feet the woman shook her fist at the man, and shrieked:

“ ‘And this is what I get, is it, for pawnin' the fly screens to give you a day off!”’