Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1914 — His Firm. [ARTICLE]

His Firm.

The drummer was boasting about the immensity of the firm he was traveling for. “I suppose your house to a pretty big establishment?” said the customer. “Big? You can’t have any idea of its dimensions. Last week we took an inventory of the employes and found out for the first time tttat three cashiers and four bookkeepers were missing. That will give you some idea of the magnitude of our business.” Hardly Good • Material for Angels. A little gitl of eight, living on the South side, asked her mother: "Mamma, what are boys after they are dead — eKs?” “No, dear,’’ replied her mother, “They are angels, as all other people are when they die, If they have been good. Why do you think they , would be elfs?”. 1 -— r “Well,” the child answered, “I didn’t think boys ever could-be angels. I should think they would be brownies, or elfs, or kewpieß, or something like that,” was the child’s answer. —Kansas City Star.