Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1914 — OBEYING ORDERS [ARTICLE]

OBEYING ORDERS

i > • Grouch) German’s Frau Did What . She was Told to Do.’ The manager of an electric-light construction concern in the .West tells an amusing stoi in connection with the work of a new line in an lowa town. - The had begun to dig a post hole in front of a house occupied by a groi/hy German. Suddenly he appeared jand forbade the men to go with the/wora; nereupoh- they explained that they had authority from the pfopen officials, which 1 explanation, however, 4id not pacify the indignant householder. After a good deal of wrangling, the men announced that they could not waste their time in talking, and so prepared to go to work again. At this juncture the German person called his wife, and with a dexterous and unexpected movement succeeded in flinging over the hole the men were digging a large, flat piece of slate, upon which he established his Frau. ’ ~rr ■* “Yust you schtay dere, und I go get aer injunction!” he directed. No sooner had the husband dis. ppeared’than the leader of the gang directed his men to take the slate with the Fra a upon it and lift it from its place. After a severe tug this was accomplished, and with perfect politeness the corpulent lady was set to one side, "just as if she had been n inanimate bbject of some sort. The work of digging then went merrily forward, and while the stolid wife held to the letter of her instructions with silent fidelity the men set up the pole for the light. This was well in place when the husband returned, waving, in his hand the'paper of injunction. . I, .When*he saw what had been done the 1 irrate householder became beside himself with rage. “Vy did you not stood on der hole as I has told you?” he demanded of his better half. “It was on der stone you put m.e, not on der hole, she answered.