Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1913 — WIT and HUMOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WIT and HUMOR

WHERE HAPPINESS IS FOUND Great Detective Informs Milkman With Watery Eyes Where to Find Condition He Is Seeking. The fat man, with the mole on x his second chin, took the proffered chair and gazed at the great detective wistfully. “You may be surprised when you learn what it is I ask you to help me find,” he began, “but they say you can find anything. Is that so?” “Anything,” admitted the great detective,'" witlr a slight smile, “except the cause of the high cost of living/’ "Ah, then, I did right in coming to you. Oh, sir, in all my life I have known not one moment’s happiness. I want happiness; I will swap my fortune for it. Tell me, where can I find happiness?” “I think I can help you, milkman,” said the great detective. “Milkman? ,Why, how did you—” “By your reference to a fortune first, and second, by your watery eyes,” said the great detective simply. “And happiness. Where can I find that?” The great detective hitched his chair nearer. “In the dictionary,” he said, confidentially. “There is no charge.” Absently, the milkman threw a sofa cushion.—Detroit Free Press.