Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1917 — The Penalty. [ARTICLE]

The Penalty.

Senator Fall was talking In New York about the Mexican situation. ■= “This imbroglio,” he said, disgustedly, alluding to phase, “was due to absent-mindedness. Well, absent-mindedness in affairs, of state gets punished as sharply as In affairs .of love. • “I once knew an absent-minded dry goods clerk who was in love with a spirited girl. He took her hand one night and droned?: ‘“Dear, dear little hand! I wonder —I wonder’ —and then his absentmindedness got its work In, and he said: .“•‘I wonder if It will -wash?’ “The girl gave a sudden start. '“‘No, George,' she hissed, ‘it won’t wash, and I may as well tell you, tq& that it won’t cook, or sweep, or da rd" sbcks, elttwr. Good evening I**— Washington Star. •