Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1915 — CURRENT WIT and HUMOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CURRENT WIT and HUMOR

HE WAS, STRICTLY NEUTRAL Diner Order* Conglomeration of Pishes to Comply With President Wilson's Late Request. Two homeless New Yorkers were taking their Sunday dinner at a restaurant They were friends, but each was concealing from the other the fact that he had no other place to SO. The first man to arrive had ordered his dinner and when the second man joined him the waiter was serving it The layout consisted of roast turkey, German fried potatoes, Vienna schnitzel, French rolls, Brussels sprouts, English muffins, Hungarian goulash and Russian caviare. “Good Lord, man,” gasped the late arrival, “what’s that crazy conglomeration you have ordered?” ‘Oh, that’s all right,” replied the other thankfully. ‘You know President Wilson has asked all good Americans to preserve strict neutrality. I'm a good American and this is a neutrality* dinner. See?”