Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1918 — Cold Water. [ARTICLE]

Cold Water.

A lady warned her new gardener that her husband had an irritating habit of disparaging everything he* saw in the greenhouse, and of ordering with reckless extravagance, in spite of, it being wartime, all manner of new plants. "On no account humor him,” she said. "Whatever he says, throw cold water on him, or he will completely ruin us.” The gardener looked surprised. “Ma’m,” he said, "if he orders me to pitch evCry plant in the place on the rubbish heap I shan’t ever have the pluck to douse him in cold water. Won’t it do as well if I get a drain of warm water out of the boiler, and let it trickle gently down his neck?”