Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1915 — Too Much for Them. [ARTICLE]

Too Much for Them.

It was a minstrel performance, and in the intervals between the songs the usual jokes were being perpetrated. “What am de difference between an ol d maid and a married woman?" asked Sambo. “Why,” explained Sambo, “de old maid am lookin’ for a husband ebery day, an* de married woman am lookin’ for 'im ebery night!” There was a pause, and several elderly gentlemen got up and stole softly into the night.