Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1914 — Tried to Stay Good. [ARTICLE]

Tried to Stay Good.

She was angry, and her face revealed the fact. "What is the matter, dear?” said her husband, as he entered the kitchen. “You see that?” she replied vehemently, as she raised a mixing bowl in which she had Just broken an egg. “That is the second bad egg I have found today. I believe Jim Fletcher keeps all the bad ones he gets in his old store for me!” “Well, you shouldn't get angry about It, Nellie,” said her husband soberly. “You ought to have more sympathy.” “Sympathy!” she echoed. “What do you mean? Sympathy for Jim Fletcher?” “No, for the eggs,” be replied. “Think how long they must have been tryin* to be good.”—Uppincott’s Magasine.