Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1918 — An Old Habit. [ARTICLE]

An Old Habit.

The recruit at bayonet practice had just given the dummy a vicious jab, when the drill sergeant noticed that he was grimacing in a rather . unusual manner. “Number Four!” cried the sergeant; “what’s the idea of all that mugging?” “Why,” said the recruit, a former movie actor, “you want me to register hate or fury or something don’t you?”