Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1917 — Why the Audience Smiled. [ARTICLE]

Why the Audience Smiled.

A certain clergyman, inclined to corpulency, officiating as chairman at a social gathering that had met to celebrate the building of a new schoolroom addressed the audience In the following manner: “Friends,” he said, “at the close of this meeting there will be a collection. It will not be for the poor,” and, unconsciously putting his thumbs into his trousers pockets and tapping with his finger,? his waist band, continued, “but and enlarging of