Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1916 — Why He Did Not Rejoice. [ARTICLE]

Why He Did Not Rejoice.

He was a poor-but otherwise honest man, the father of eight children. By and by the ninth arrived. “That means,” said the sympathetic neighbor, “one more mouth to feed?’ “Oh, I don’t mind the feed bill,” rejoined the father, “but being a girl baby, it means one more mouth to listen to.”—■—>— ■. ’ -