Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1914 — GOOD JOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOOD JOKER

INSATIABLE.

George A. Birmingham (Canon Hannay), the versatile Irish clergyman, playwright and novelist, was talking to a New York reporter about the American business man. “I’ll tell you a story,” he said, “which hits off the American business man well: “A wife, still young, turned from the window of her sumptuous nineteenthstory apartment and said to her husband: “‘George, ten years ago you promised me that when you made a million you’d retire from business, and then we’d travel and enjoy life.’ “Here she began to cry. " ‘You’ve got your million now," she sobbed. ‘Why do you keep on working?’ “George, as he hurried into his overcoat, growled: “ ‘Ah, that’s just like you—never satisfied!”*—New York Tribune.