Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1919 — SMILES FOR ALL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Precocity. “We heard your baby crying two blocks away.” “Wonderful child!” exclaimed the father with a gratified smile. “He makes known his state of mind. Even at his age he is an uncompromising advocate of pitiless publicity.”

~~ : Good Neighbors. “How do you like your new neighbors?" “Great. We’ve lived in this apartment seven months now and none of them hae bothered us yet.” ;

Stylish. "Were you at their wedding?” “Yes.” <* n Was it a fashionable affair?” , “Very. Everybody seemed to be dressed as uncomfortably as the groom looked to be.” _ . I Probably Not “She wants to be an actress?” “And her parents object?” “Yes. I was just wondering if any' girl ever became'an with the consent of her parents.” i * ’* - The Reason.

"Why hasn’t Robinson accomplished more? He is a man of such broad views.” “Yes, but of su z ch narrow means.”

A Very Good Reason. i i A lady who was summering in ai quaint backwoods village* met a native, and in the course of a little talk asked him why all the village children went barefoot. . : •». I “Why,” he exclaimed ip surprtafcl “that’s the way they were born I” ■ |