Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1913 — A Tender Heart [ARTICLE]

A Tender Heart

Mrs. de Style—My dear, wft have been invited to a hard times reception —everything to be on an economical scale. Husband —That’s eminently sensible. We shall go, of course. Ladies are to wear simple dresses of their own making, I presume? Mrs. de Style—Yes, we must all wear cheap things, or pay a fine of |SO into. the poor fund. Dear me, how the poor must suffer these days. My heart goes out to them. 1 believe I’ll order a Parisian costume and pay the fine.