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

Overworked.

“Yes,” said Mrs. Malaprop, “my boy is doing first rate at school. I sent him to one o’jthem 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 spellers 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 to pay special attention to the dead languages,” said the proud mother. —Harper’s Weekly.