Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — SURELY AN EASY COURSE. [ARTICLE]

SURELY AN EASY COURSE.

Misplaced enthusiasm for the game of golf has got many a man into difficulties. Not the least of these is the story of a golfer >,who had been at a feast which kept him from home until the wee small hours. His spouse, waking in the gray dawn, missed him and went on .a searching expedition which eventually led' to a billiard room which was all alight. As she opened the door, she saw the head of the house, putter in hand, in the scantiest of attire, standing on the table. “Whatever are you doing, John?” she asked sharply, And John, turning his head, said with all gravity: “Hush, m’dear, if—hie —getthish down I’ll be round in nine.”