Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — The Martini Berceuse. [ARTICLE]

The Martini Berceuse.

A young lady was dining with some friends at their home.. The host had concocted some seductive cocktails and she had joined the others in drink; ing to his health. Before the dinner was over she was experiencing that much-talked-of wobbly feeling that is said to follow a cocktail. While coffee was being served in the drawing room, the three-months-old son of the family was brought into the room and the young guest insisted on holding him. “I am surprised that he is so contented In your lap,” her hostess told her. "He doesn’t usually* care for strangers.” “Well, you may not know it," was the reply, "but he is being rocked."— New York Evening Post. If One’s Sufficient, Why Proceed? "A word to the wise Is sufficient, and —” began the village bore. “Then let it go at that,” snarled J. Fuller Gloom, who is blessed with a mean disposition.