Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1916 — NEVER THOUGHT OF FATHER [ARTICLE]

NEVER THOUGHT OF FATHER

Inconsiderate Youth Insisted on Wearing His Trousers Too All-Fired High at Ankles. “What’s the idea?” asked the storekeeper as Farmer Corntossel closed the door carefully and edged over to the stove. "The idea of what?” “Of those clothes? That little hat and the sport shirt and white socks?” “Them used to be my boy Josh’s. He’s got to have new oneq an’ my wife says these are too good to throw away. 1 don’t mind the hat ner the shirt, cos I kin let my hair an’ whiskers grow. But Josh ’ud be a heap more of a comfort to his father in cold weather if he wouldn't insist on wearin’ his trousers so high at the ankles.”