Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1920 — The Absent Back. [ARTICLE]

The Absent Back.

Cortlandt Bleecker was supping in a roof garden re: *aurant the other night when his companion nudged him and said: “Look, there goes Merriweather. Poor duffer, every cent he earns goes on his wife’s back.” “Then, by heaven, he must have loot his job,” said Mr. Bleecker, "judging by the dress I saw his wife wearing at a dinner dance last week.”