Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1918 — What She Was Doing. [ARTICLE]

What She Was Doing.

Young Mrs. Fusserly was going to learn to knit socks for soldiers as a part of her patriotic, duties. And, moreover, she was going to surprise her husband by her accomplishment. Rubble caught her one day laboriously struggling with what might have made a nice laprobe for a child’s gocart, but was an alleged sock instead. “What in the world are you making there?” he asked, manlike. “I’m doing my bit,” was her reply. He returned in the evening Just in time to see her tearfully unraveling the last stitches of the sock. “H-mjn-m,” he remarked, heartlessly. “At noon I find you doing your bit In the evening I find you undoing it”