Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1917 — No Reason for Complaint. [ARTICLE]

No Reason for Complaint.

Sergeants are seldom at a loss for an apt remark. A raw recruit, the sleeves of w’hose tunic were six Inches too long, and whose trousers sagged more than Charlie Chaplin’s, presented himself before his noncommissioned officer and compalned of the fit. “Nonsense 1” 'retorted the sergeant. “Why, it fits absolutely lovely. You look as If you’d been melted and poured In I”