Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1915 — SPOTTING A FAMILIAR SMELL [ARTICLE]

SPOTTING A FAMILIAR SMELL

While Walking Streets of Brooklyn Msn Detects Odor of Burning Potstoee—Cook Reading Novel.

He was walking along one of the residential streets of Brooklyn the other day when he suddenly stopped and sniffed the air in all directions. His nose had found a familiar odor, and pretty soon he traced It to a certain chimney and ascended the steps of a house and rang the bell. "Excuse me. ma’am," he said to the woman who came to the door, “but do you keep a cook ?” • "Yes, sir," she replied as the looked at him In a puzzled way. "Is she in at the present time?” "Yes, sir, but she doesn’t want to see no agents just now." “Oh, I’m no agent, ma’am. You just tell the cook that the water has all boiled out of the potatoes and that the said potatoes are burning. Smell ’em very plainly In the street. Happens every day at my house. Cook la probably reading a novel or got a cold in the bead. That’s all, ma’am—no trouble at all —good evening!”