Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — Brief Happiness. [ARTICLE]

Brief Happiness.

Tommy in khaki stood In a street of a French town and watched a wedding party driven away. It seemed to be n function of Boine linporta_nce, for the whole town had turned but to witness it. “I say,” said Tommy to a bystander/ pointing to tbe bridegroom, “who’s that?” „ ' “Comprends pas” ("I don’t under stand”), was the reply. Next day, in the same street, he saw a funeral procession. Again his curosity was aroused. r “Whose funeral V* he asked of a gendarme. “Comprends pas.” “Comprends pas? Poor ofd -Comprends pas! And it was only yesterday he was married!”