Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1916 — A Quick Reply. [ARTICLE]

A Quick Reply.

The repartee of the conductorette may not be so full-blooded as that of her male counterpart, but its rapierlike qualities are decidedly more effective. 1 \ • “-’Alloa, Ethel!” shouted a jovial carman to one of the fare ladies one chilly morning recently. “Feeling cold, old dear? Why don’t cher turn yer collar up like me?” “Well, you see,” sweetly replied the, girl, ‘Tve gojt a olean neck.”