Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — His Utter Selfishness. [ARTICLE]

His Utter Selfishness.

•‘I adopted a French war orphan the other day.” admitted J.. Fuller Gloom. “Observing that nearly everyohe else asked- for pretty little girls. 1 specified that mine should be a boy—the homelier the better. the rattiest and rnntiest that could be found, and bowlegged if possible.or one —who had lost his palate, or something of the sort. My idea wrts tb get one that, having been shoved back and snubbed all'his little life, would appreciate the~ small bit 1 was doing for him all out of propdr- , tinn to what ,jt really cost, and thus : get myself Vastly overpaid in gratitude. My was an entirely -selfish one. 1 assure you.”—Kansas City Star.