Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1914 — If They Had Lived. [ARTICLE]

If They Had Lived.

On one occasion a census clerk, in scanning one of the forms to see that it had filled up, noticed fl the figures 120 and 112 under the heading “Age of Father, if Living,” and "Age of Mother, if Living.” “But your parents *were never so old, were they?” queried the astonished clerk. —“No,” was the reply, “but they would ha' bln. if living.’ -