Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1914 — A SICKENING FAILURE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A SICKENING FAILURE.

“Your charity ball great success, I hear, Mr. Flippleigh.” “Oh, no, it was a dismal failure.” “Why, I was told you had netted quite a hand-

some sum for the orphans’ home.” "We made plenty of money, as far as that was concerned, but there wasn’t a paper in town that printed a word about my gown or my jewels.”