Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1917 — Lost Opportunity. [ARTICLE]

Lost Opportunity.

“I see an old gentleman approaching. wears a silk hat and seems absorbed in a pamphlet he is reading. Farther down the street several small boys are waiting with snowballs in their hands. What will happen?” “Nothing. I know something those small boys evidently don’t know. The old gentleman has to walk only about ten feet before lie will turn into his -own house, where, I assure you, he will be quite safe.”