Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1915 — IN DESPAIR. [ARTICLE]

IN DESPAIR.

"I give up!” exclaimed Mr. Dodsworth. "There’s no use trying to please a woman.” “Confide in me,” urged Mr. Twobble, sympathetically. "My wife went away for two weeks and left me at home to keep house.” "Well?" “I neglected my business to wash dishes and clean up, so everything would be in apple-pie order when she returned.” “And wasn’t she pleased?” “Umph! She looked around the well-kept rooms —if I do say it, they were as neat as a pin—and then eyeing me suspiciously, she ‘Henry, where did you stay while I was gone?”’