Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1914 — Stung. [ARTICLE]

Stung.

London reports the discovery of the meanest man of whom there is any record. This Englishman has just been divorced from his wife —for what, do you guess? Wrongs You couldn’t guess it in a week of Sundays. The mean fellow carried live bees around in his pockets. Every time his 'wife went to examine his pockets to see if they needed mending—or for other reasons—see any jest book—she was cruelly stung. Unable to endure such treatment, she secured a divorce. She felt that one of the most ancient of wifely duties—and privileges—that of Inspecting* the bottom of her husband’s pockets—was not only interTered with, but was made a method of torture. The man, of course, argued that he had a right to carry what he pleased in his pockets—but the granting of the divorce would seem like a denial of this right. So man may well begin to ponder this question: What may a man rightfully carry in his pockets?