Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1916 — She Was Busy. [ARTICLE]

She Was Busy.

"I want to thank you,” said the longwinded orator to the nice old lady who ha’d stayed throughout his entire lecture. "You seemed to appreciate my efforts to enlighten this community.” “That’s all right,” she replied. "Most of your audience slipped away, but I had brought my knitting along and wasn’t wasting the time.”