Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1915 — A Natural Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Natural Mistake.

General Joffre once told a good humored story of a party of four British tourists who entered a Paris restaurant one evening and announced that they wanted dinner. "And we don’t want any of your frogs, or snails, or horses,” one of them told the waiter, severely. "Well start with soup—some sort of plain soup.” "Certainly, six,” replied the waiter, and next minute the four Brltains heard him shout down the speaking tube to the kitchen: "Cat soup!” Without a word the tourists seized their hats and bolted It was not until some time later that they discovered that th French .“four soups”— "quatres soupes”—is .pronounced almost exactly like "cat soup.** A married man’s idea of Heaven is a place where his wife’s folks won’t bother him. _ ''» After a man gets about so ojd it keeps him busy Crying tb rectify the mtttakeb of his youth.