Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1914 — Overworked. [ARTICLE]

Overworked.

“Yes,” said Mrs. Malaprop, “my boy is doing first rate at school. I sent him to one o’ them alimentary schools, and his teacher says he’s doing fine. He’s a first-class sculler, they tell me, and is head of his class in gastronomy, knows his letters "by sight, and can spell like one o’ these deformed spelters down to Washington.” ' . ■. “What’s he going to be when he grows up?” “He wants to be an undertaker, and I’m declined to humor him, so I’ve told the confessor t» pay special attention to the dead languages," said the proud * mother. —Harper’s Weekly.