Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1920 — Vital Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Vital Statistics.

One of the census men called at the home of a workingman in New York, noted In his neighborhood as a great reader and a wiseacre for statistics. He found the man poring over an encyclopedia. “How many children have you?’ asked the census taker. “I have just three —and that’s all there will be too.” replied the man. looking up from ’his book of knowledge. “All right, by why so positive?" "According to this book here,” said the man with deadly seriousness, “every fourth child born in the world Is. a Chinaman!” —Saturday Evening Post.