Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1919 — Monotonous [ARTICLE]

Monotonous

Judson had run a genera! store for 20 years. The same bld dust was on the shelves, and much of the original stock. When the place became a summer resort Judson hung a red lantern of the Chinese variety in the middle Of bls celling as a concession to the summer trade. The second day the lantern was up a woman spied it and bought it k Judson put up another lantern, and

another. As fast as he hung them, summer guests bought them up for decorative' purposes? Finally the limit of Judson’s patience was reached when the last woman came In and tasked for a lantern. “I ain’t goln’ to order no more,” he said decidedly. “Why?” %sked the woman. • “There ain’t no sense in it Can’t keep a durned one of ’em in stock. As fast as I get ’em in some blamed fool woman comes tn and buys ’em.” —Dallas News.