Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1914 — HOW HE TURNED THE TRICK [ARTICLE]

HOW HE TURNED THE TRICK

After This, Mr. Mordlcal Hammerfost Must Be Credited With Knowing • Thing or Two. Mrs. Mordecal Hammerfest turned pale as her husband entered tho din-ing-room for breakfast “Mordy!" she gasped. “Do you—don’t you feel well?” —•— “Perfectly," he replied In seeming surprise. "But —but, are you in your—your underduds! ” "Tell me something I don’t know. Pass the butter, please,” said Mr. Hammerfest. . She passed the Gutter, remarking nervously: "But, Mordy, dear, as'youcame In I saw you didn't have any shoes on.” “Well, what of It Your hair is in curl papers, isn’t it?" “Why—y-yes.” “And you have on a wrapper, haven’t you?" “Yes.” “Very well, then.” And he went on eating hilt breakfast in silence except when he asked her to pass the butter. Then he went upstairs and finished dressing, and the next morning and on succeeding mornreported for breakfast in regular clothes.