Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1916 — An Expensive Shade [ARTICLE]

An Expensive Shade

When a trolley conductor on tho night turn woke up one jafternoon hi* ndustrious little wife brought out for nis admiration a lamp shade made of colored tissue paper. She had made It with her own hands, and its scalloped border wasrperforated with innumerable little homsf'thru which the light of a pdrlor lamp would- fall on the table, “Telhmie if you don't think it pretty” sjie said, holding the shade out for th<V husband to Inspect. “It looks loveiy,” began the man; but as he looked at It more closely he turned pale and said, “You mad* t„ese holes with my bell punch?’’ V'Yob, dear, while you were asleep. But what is the matter?" asked hi* wife. 1 y. ■■ “Oh, nothing,” he murmured, faintly; “you've only rung up enough fare* on that lamp shade to mortgage my yoar*s salary. Every one of those boles will cost m§ five cents, that’s,all.’'