Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1915 — It Was a Mouse. [ARTICLE]

It Was a Mouse.

If there’s anything that will make a woman throw good -esolutions to the wind quicker than she made them, it is a mouse. A young woman arrived at one of the New York hotels and before retiring at night she decided to straighten up the things in the closet of her room. She was singing over her work and was doing nicely until she discovered two shining little behds in one corner and decided there must be a lost hatpin there. So she reached out to take it. What her hand met was soft and covered with hair. - It was a mouse. The yell that emanated from that room convinced everybody tangoing several floors above that cruel murder was afoot, and there was a scramble to the hallways. The young woman finally succeeded in opening the door of her room and informed the gathering crowd what a narrow escape she had from annihilation. Now there is a standing reward of $6 for the head of that mouse —detached from the rest of the mouse. If it ever appears again, there’s no telling what may happen.