Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1916 — Borrowing a Plano. [ARTICLE]

Borrowing a Plano.

Suburbanites are indulging in vfirlOus co-operative measures in theirl thirst for economy, and neighbors are getting accustomed to an extension] of the borrowing principle. But one, man, who lives not far from Manchester, at least thinks the idea hasl gone too far. He was surprised the! other day by a request for the loam of a piano by a neighbor who was glvIng a musical evening to some friends. “I have a patriotic reason," he ex-i plained, “as I have sold my piano to buy Exchequer bonds." When he was 1 refused he played another card.. "Well, perhaps," he said, "you wouldn’t; mind me bringing my friends here for some music.” —Manchester Guardian.