Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1914 — An Unfortunate Mix-Up. [ARTICLE]

An Unfortunate Mix-Up.

Once upon a time a gentleman entered a florist’s shop, ordering two bunches of flowers. One wan to go to a lady friend and the other was to go tr- the home of a friend who had just died On the firyt he wrote: “To help you bear the heat," the weather l>eing very warm; on the second he inscribed “Sympathy.” When the flowers were delivered a mistake was made. The lad> received the bunch marked “Sympathy,” and immediate, ly answered, asking why she needed his sympathy. He never heard frotor Che other box.