Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — Aesop Up-to-Date. [ARTICLE]

Aesop Up-to-Date.

•Once upon ir’itnir. —tirorrr was a crafty old fox that went and got married Ttyr m: didn’t anre hfro He loved to mingle with the boys and have a good time where the white lights _palpitate like a headache on the morning after. And the wife, who was 'fflore or less guileless,-grirduatty-bcrrrme-wise to the ways of the world. The fox exhausted all of his excuses, and she got hep to his every move. One morning, about 4 a. m. he cam. staggering in with a napkin under his chin and a lady’s fan in his vest pocket,. r “Where have you been?” she asked. Wearily, he responded: “There’s no use alibiing this: time. I've been out on a bat”L_. ; — — And she, knowing that he always lied, refused to believe him and gave him"credit for sitting up with a sick friend. Moral: Honesty is the best policy.