Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1915 — Foolish Question. [ARTICLE]

Foolish Question.

A man who, with his family, had spent several weeks at a fashionable summer resort discovered one morning that he had lost his pocketbook. Thinking it possible that it might have been found hy some employee of the hotel at which he was staying, he reported his loss to the landlord. “That’s too bad, Mr. Johnson,” said that functionary. “I’ll make inquiries about it. What kind of pocketbook was it?" “Russia leather,” answered the lodger. “What color?” ' „ “Dark red.” “Any distinguishing mark about it?” “It had a clasp." “What was the shape of it?"' “Flat, of course,” said Mr. Johnson. “Haven’t I been here more than a month?”