Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1914 — Misjudged. [ARTICLE]

Misjudged.

“Myrtle,” said her father, “I want you to send that young Smitherton about his business. I won’t have him coming around here any more. I don’t like him.” “Why, father, I can’t see what you can have against him. He is awfully* nice, comes from a very flfie family, doesn’t use tobacco and he never touches a drop of any kind of liquor.” “That’s all right. I don’t like him. He hksn’t any sense of humor, and I don’t believe a man who lacks the sense of humor can ever amount to much." “But he has a sense of humor. After you had gone upstairs last night he said you were the funniest thing bo had ever seen.”