Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1919 — Extinguished the Bore. [ARTICLE]

Extinguished the Bore.

The inevitable bore intruded himself upon our long-suffering editor, and as he turned on his revolving chair you might have seen locks of hair shrivel ing up and dropping out as he rushed towards the premature baldness. “How do you do?” said the caller. “Eve just a word or two to say to you." . “Delighted, I’m sure, to hear them, but —” “Oh, It won’t take long!” “ “Won’t it? —Well, I’ll tell you what; Here’s my dictapljone. You go out into the next room and talk into it. 'Whenever you want more cylinders just ring the bell. Just as soon as I get time I’ll grind it out again, and In the meantime we can both be happy.”—Answers.