Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1916 — Women Can't Take a Joke. [ARTICLE]

Women Can't Take a Joke.

Tommy was listening to his “highbrow” sister discourse on the political Issues of the day to callers at their home, and, as was his wont, attentively awaited an opportunity to twit bar as a matter of pure mischief. “Though I am in sympathy with the feminist movement,” his sister was telling the “yet, like father, at heart I am a Democrat and” — “Oh-h-h, sis,” Tommy interrupted, “how changeable you are. You told us yesterday that you are an aristocrat. How fickle!” What could the poor girl do? Nothing more than pull Tommy’s ears when the callers had gone, which elicited the remonstrance: "Women what can’t take a joke ain’t got no business in politics.”